Solo indie developer using Unity3d. Developing EXO ONE, a surreal, exoplanetary exploration game for PC. Created the iOS title Unknown Orbit, co-created Zombie Outbreak Simulator and Class 3 Outbreak.
This is just one of my (usually) daily development blogs focusing on everything from PR to content/art creation for my exoplanetary exploration game, EXO ONE.
After going off on wayyy too much of a Kickstarter tangent (though not entirely unrelated to EXO ONE’s marketing), I covered some of the following:
Which was in this excellent article by IndieWolverine on Kickstarters: Indiewolverine.com
I’m going to try recording a video of this just to see what it’s like, but may not actually share it (will see!).
Here’s some reference for this planet’s terrain:
I’m going to try essentially replacing this water with ice for this cold world. I think long half-pipe like river structures should work well in combination with the fast moving clouds, especially if they mostly somehow orient themselves to match the cloud direction.
Ok so I spent an hour making a video and it’s not too bad. Pretty slow, and I’m rusty, and mumbly and so on, but that’s what 2x youtube speed is for ya’ll!
Here’s some screens from it, showing the node setup, the resulting heightfield, scene view and in-game. Again, this was only an hour of work, so it has a little way to go still.
Above: River heightmap, created using a simple noise texture, but isolating one small strip of grey value and then applying a curve that turns that grey value strip into a river bed cross section.
Here’s the very simple node network used to create the river, with the cross section I mentioned above.
The heightfield, represented as green for low altitude, red for high (which… is kinda backwards…) :)
The heightfield with a muddy/rocky texture, and snow layered over the top to make it more obvious where the river bed is/isn’t.
Much more lighting and material work required to make the river stand out properly, but here’s a quick in-game screenshot anyways.
Wow, I’m famous, there I am, on Youtubes! Listen to me mumble! And don’t forget to 2x me!!
Cya next time!