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Sculpted a new rock! And an example of how 1 rock can look like many! This is only 1 rock duplicated and rotated 11 times. Polycount is about as much as 2 characters (which is good!) Also, I tried to make this archway rock structure that you had in one of your concepts. Kinda didn’t end up looking too much like the original. Might do another stab at this so it matches the reference a little better.
It’s been a while since I posted to the page on what I have been working on, so here it is! New custom terrain surface shader! Like I was telling you on the phone, it’s doing quite a few neato things. It has a moss / snow / whatever layer that is dependent upon slope angle, as well as a slider to control the amount of growth. In addition to that you can tell it where you absolutely do NOT want it to grow by painting the vertex colors of it. It also has a dirt layer that you can manually paint where you want dirt to appear. On top of all this, I’ve found a few interesting things about light mapping. Before I was having issues with normal maps showing up using the standard lightmap setup. Well Unity has this thing called Directional Lightmaps, so it bakes a traditional lightmap as well as what appears to be a lightmap normal map. Anyways, it basically makes it look normal mapped but with light mapping and it actually runs faster than using just a single lightmap (go figure) anyways I say we use them. Here’s a screen shot:
Got our own custom cube map reflection shader working! W00t! Now we can have really shiny, pretty items to pick up.. Whats cool is it uses a fresnel effect on the reflection, which means it gets more reflective the more glancing off an angle you view it from. AND, since its cube map “reflections” its very cheap and fast to render. YAY!
