if you went over how the tile map was made a bit more, that'd be an awesome tutorial! You're like the only person I can find that deals with 3d tile maps!
A lot of objects with each a renderer attached can bring up performance issues. Make sure to combine meshes in chunks to have less draw calls. Also the ground is in the form of a cube but only the top is visible.
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Great to stumble upon this! The grid-based 3D with construction is something I am working through at the moment (using Godot rather than Unity) and you covering the underlying principle was incredibly helpful, rather than any engine-specific tutorial. I guess I will need to work on my art to make it a bit more unique, though, as the low-poly cell shading look was what I have been going for, but you guys do it so well. Thanks again!
Super Video mit zu einem sehr spannenden und hilfreichem Thema! Alle Eckpunkte angesprochen und für mich die perfekte Art von "Tutorial" um es selber mal auszuprobieren ohne einem Schritt für Schritt Tutorial folgen zu müssen. Super Lerneffekt! Danke und gerne mehr :)
It's so cool how you can place buildings with indicators. Can you make an in depth video on how you made it? Did you stack a smaller grid on top of your larger grid?
I love the look of this, and the approach. I wonder, how do you go about making that lovely "constraining" object-placement grid appear please? Is it part of Unity's built-in 2D grids, or hand-made?
i'm not 100% sure which grid you mean. if you're talking about constraining 3D objects to move only on a grid, Unitys Pro-Grid plugin is sometimes great for that.
@@ebbflowgames4778 Thanks, I was meaning the elegant way that when a character is about to place a building, a beautiful grid of highlighted squares appears to show which squares are allowed and which turn red to indicate an obstacle. Is that a grid where you tint the squares, or some sort of world-space UI? It looks great.
I've been trying to figure out how I'd do something similar for a dungeon crawler I'm making. This is a very neat look into an implementation that's similar to what I want for my game!
Great tutorial! Would have loved to see more of that procedural generation code and how it translates the heightmaps into the rule tiles. But I think I can grep enough of the concept to recreate it with enough time and effort.
Hi, super cooles Video. Ich suche grade auch eine Möglichkeit Maps möglichst automatisch zu generieren. Bei Valheim wird das ganze ja auch prozedural gemacht, allerdings gibts da das Problem, dass man keine Höhlen graben kann, da alles in y Richtung aufeinander aufbaut. Mit eurem Ansatz der 3D Tiles könnte man da glaube ich gut was machen. So eine Art Mischung aus Valheim und Minecraft. :) Tip top, weiter so :) Ich bin gespannt was von euch noch so alles kommt.
I recently built something similar in Javascript - a 3D chunk map that serializes to/from JSON. For cube-like tiles its a simple case to determine which faces/vertices are required and which are not, then collating that data into a single model per chunk. More complicated tile models are ... more complicated ... I cheated by simply checking which faces meet the 'edge' of the tile (one of their vertice' components is a -1 or 1) and intersect those with the adjoining tile face(s). It isn't elegant, and I think if I were to do it again I might just design additional assets and pick them appropriately myself rather than have the program do it.
nice! do you find any lag when implementing it this way? i've made a similar method, but when the the generated world is large, it lags. So i would have to resolve to culling the tile from view to make it more performant.
The solution is simply to NOT generate a large world, as obvious as it sounds :) Just break it up into chunck. Where the camera gets close to the edge of the loaded chunks, load more in the background. And you can remove the chuncks that get too far off from the camera (or disable them).
@@azzzertyy Well, when people refer to culling, they usually do not mean "chunks". They mean not rendering objects that are out of the camera field of view. That's different from what is actually generated around the player, in memory, as well as the associated process of not generating the whole world right away when the map/scene is loaded. It's possible that the "chunks" system is what they meant, but it wasn't very clear in the way they said it, because they said "culling the tile **from view**", which to me sounded like they were referring to what culling traditionally means. So I dont think it's an issue for me to add a comment to help them out in case.
it depends on the scale of the world and what other things are happening in the game. an easy further optimization step would be to combine the meshes into bigger, fewer ones (like "chunks").
if you went over how the tile map was made a bit more, that'd be an awesome tutorial! You're like the only person I can find that deals with 3d tile maps!
Yeah, this is more a showing off of tools he's made, not specifically how to make it
A lot of objects with each a renderer attached can bring up performance issues. Make sure to combine meshes in chunks to have less draw calls. Also the ground is in the form of a cube but only the top is visible.
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I was dumb forgot the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me!
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@@brysonmitchell8895 nice try guys
would love a more in depth tutorial on making the different tiles!
This is clever to use this. I'd really love to know more about the 3D Level generation. That's awesome to find such a good video
Great to stumble upon this! The grid-based 3D with construction is something I am working through at the moment (using Godot rather than Unity) and you covering the underlying principle was incredibly helpful, rather than any engine-specific tutorial. I guess I will need to work on my art to make it a bit more unique, though, as the low-poly cell shading look was what I have been going for, but you guys do it so well. Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This proved to be very helpful.
Just a heads up, when doing the meshes in blender, to make them look seamless, you need to mark the border edges as sharp, and THEN use sharp edges.
Thank you for video! I have plan to make my first game the same method!
Super Video mit zu einem sehr spannenden und hilfreichem Thema! Alle Eckpunkte angesprochen und für mich die perfekte Art von "Tutorial" um es selber mal auszuprobieren ohne einem Schritt für Schritt Tutorial folgen zu müssen. Super Lerneffekt! Danke und gerne mehr :)
Think about merging the "Tiles" into one bigger mesh. This will boost your performance and reduce your gameobject count...
Yup! If your environment is static, this can be a great optimization. It also makes your environment prefabs so much smaller and faster to work with.
How would you do this?
hmm.. interesting method about merging tiles into bigger mesh. i think there's a asset on the asset store to do this
came here for the tutorial but the game actually looks pretty cool
Hi, thanks for the great lesson! Found a few really useful things.
I love how your game is looking, so waiting for tutorial about material ;)
Cool game and nice tutorial/ showcase. I'm very interested in seeing a more in depth view of the cool tools you made.
Thank you! I would love to see more.
I'm legit doing this myself. would love to see how you did procedural textures
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It's so cool how you can place buildings with indicators. Can you make an in depth video on how you made it? Did you stack a smaller grid on top of your larger grid?
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Very cool devlog !
Very interesting, thank you very much
This is great! Thank you for sharing
I love the look of this, and the approach. I wonder, how do you go about making that lovely "constraining" object-placement grid appear please? Is it part of Unity's built-in 2D grids, or hand-made?
i'm not 100% sure which grid you mean. if you're talking about constraining 3D objects to move only on a grid, Unitys Pro-Grid plugin is sometimes great for that.
@@ebbflowgames4778 Thanks, I was meaning the elegant way that when a character is about to place a building, a beautiful grid of highlighted squares appears to show which squares are allowed and which turn red to indicate an obstacle. Is that a grid where you tint the squares, or some sort of world-space UI? It looks great.
I've been trying to figure out how I'd do something similar for a dungeon crawler I'm making.
This is a very neat look into an implementation that's similar to what I want for my game!
we're actually working on procedurally generating some dungeons currently and might do a devlog about this in a couple of weeks as well :)
Great tutorial! Would have loved to see more of that procedural generation code and how it translates the heightmaps into the rule tiles. But I think I can grep enough of the concept to recreate it with enough time and effort.
good explanations.. very useful.. thanks
no way, this is nuts!
I just got into unity and had no idea there is a built-in 3d tile map. Awesome!
Just a thought - when trying to flatten the sides, wouldn’t it be easier to use a Boolean modifier?
Hi,
super cooles Video.
Ich suche grade auch eine Möglichkeit Maps möglichst automatisch zu generieren.
Bei Valheim wird das ganze ja auch prozedural gemacht, allerdings gibts da das Problem, dass man keine Höhlen graben kann, da alles in y Richtung aufeinander aufbaut.
Mit eurem Ansatz der 3D Tiles könnte man da glaube ich gut was machen. So eine Art Mischung aus Valheim und Minecraft. :)
Tip top, weiter so :) Ich bin gespannt was von euch noch so alles kommt.
Nice video Mate:)
How do deal with the collinders? Create prafrab?
Oh. This game, this project is dead now. I am so sorry. 🥺
I recently built something similar in Javascript - a 3D chunk map that serializes to/from JSON. For cube-like tiles its a simple case to determine which faces/vertices are required and which are not, then collating that data into a single model per chunk.
More complicated tile models are ... more complicated ... I cheated by simply checking which faces meet the 'edge' of the tile (one of their vertice' components is a -1 or 1) and intersect those with the adjoining tile face(s). It isn't elegant, and I think if I were to do it again I might just design additional assets and pick them appropriately myself rather than have the program do it.
sounds cool!
why is it no more available on steam =( i want to play it and the websit is no longer available
Wird es zum dem 3D Tile Based Generation noch ein Tutorial geben? Würde so gerne auch so ein Terrain bauen..
nice! do you find any lag when implementing it this way? i've made a similar method, but when the the generated world is large, it lags. So i would have to resolve to culling the tile from view to make it more performant.
The solution is simply to NOT generate a large world, as obvious as it sounds :) Just break it up into chunck. Where the camera gets close to the edge of the loaded chunks, load more in the background. And you can remove the chuncks that get too far off from the camera (or disable them).
@@niuage ... you know thats what culling is... right? the thing they said theyd have to do...
@@azzzertyy Well, when people refer to culling, they usually do not mean "chunks". They mean not rendering objects that are out of the camera field of view. That's different from what is actually generated around the player, in memory, as well as the associated process of not generating the whole world right away when the map/scene is loaded.
It's possible that the "chunks" system is what they meant, but it wasn't very clear in the way they said it, because they said "culling the tile **from view**", which to me sounded like they were referring to what culling traditionally means. So I dont think it's an issue for me to add a comment to help them out in case.
can we get an in-depth tutorial?
great video, thank you for sharing
Does all those tiles affects in any way performance in game? I see a lots of game object and was wondering about it
it depends on the scale of the world and what other things are happening in the game. an easy further optimization step would be to combine the meshes into bigger, fewer ones (like "chunks").
Are you guys for hire? Serious inquiry ;)!
Hi! I saw you took down the game on steam :( I would really enjoy to play it. Is there a chance to get a key for it? I will of course pay for it.
Great video!
just checked out the steam page, yikes
Looking for a video that makes a 3d world in 50 seconds.
hi, have you the project with the scripts??
I saw that each of your tiles have a box collider.
Doesn't that cause performance dips?
for our current world size, having individual box colliders is not a performance problem. It wouldn't be too hard to optimize this though i think :)
I'd love to peep the code for this!
Where's the BOOM key? LOL
This is a little bit of a stretch, but could you post your code?
If not, I would very much appreciate a more in-depth tutorial. I am veeery new and this is almost exactly what I’m trying to do.
Why no github source code?
In 60 seconds
welches plugin hast du für die tilemap benutzt?
Cool !
bin mal sehr gespannt was ihr so aus dem game macht. hat Ähnlichkeiten mit Stonehearth. was ja nie wirklich fertig geworden ist... :(
dude how's the prospect of indie gamedev? I'm tired of wageslaving :'(
This can vary greatly, some indie devs can work with a nice salary, others don't make it.
@@ebbflowgames4778 are you doing well in gamedev?
Lovely tutorial, but do please omit the f.... background music, It is irritating for these kind of learning vids. Besides sucks a lot.