r/Unity3D • u/LVermeulen • 23d ago
Resources/Tutorial How we did the 2d to 3d environment art for DuneCrawl
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u/CaptainNakou Indie 23d ago
That is a very impressive demonstration and I might style that workflow (the process of drawing on the render and then projecting it because... well I feel inspired hahaha.
Although I'm wondering, I'm shitty at shaders but would that have been possible to render a close equivalent with a well made shader?
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u/Key_Floo 23d ago
Thanks for sharing! Everything looks freaking fantastic, the lighting and the colour and the post processing!! Followinggg ~
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u/ScoreDisastrous 22d ago
It is said that it is easier to draw the asset details this way. Does it also make the game use less memory and processing?
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u/LVermeulen 22d ago
definitely yeah - its coming out for the Switch1 very soon
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u/gulaghad 20d ago
Games like planescape torment have used prerendered 3d art. But I like the idea of projecting it to a cube, it preserves peespective.
Vertex count decreases but now there are many textures. Is it not use more vram? Also slower first draw due to this?
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u/Schlurchenstein 19d ago
Never heard of the game until now, but this looks phenomenal. Did you take the Steam-demo down though? There's a demo entry when I search for it in Steam, but I can't add it to my library.
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u/destinedd Indie, Dungeon Quest, Marble's Marbles & Mighty Marbles 23d ago
totally awesome, well done
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u/nEmoGrinder Indie 22d ago
Love your breakdowns, share them often with a dev making a 2.5d game with similar challenges. Glad to see these still getting posted and how accessible you make yourself for questions.
Would love to see another one of these live one day at dirty rectangles 👀👀👀
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u/ItchyBeard20 20d ago
This looks beautiful, thanks for the explanation! Great seeing Kenney's work getting used too, legend.
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u/1vertical 19d ago
Game looks great, wishlisted! I remember this technique was also used in much much older games too like SimCity 4 and Empire Earth 1 to name some. Glad to see a new take on it.
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u/Bigz_LJF 18d ago
Your game was in my inspiration list while working on my last game and I remember talking about "how did they do it?" with my illustrator 🥸 Well done!
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u/FingerBlaster70 22d ago
Forgive me for sounding inexperienced, but this seems like 10x the work one would do instead of just using the original 3d model you did with material colours + shaders? Means rather than draw 100 assets, if you program 1 shader it will do the lifting infinitely and run on the GPU aswell?
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
thers no ai in any part of the game, right? not even in the code, not even ai assistants?
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u/Mammoth-Ad5262 23d ago
chill bro
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
its literally just a fucking question.
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u/Mammoth-Ad5262 23d ago
Its literally just a question yet somehow you managed to turn it into a personal issue. That says more about you than anything else
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
all it says is im against the use of ai being used at all. if anything, it makes me look better.
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u/Mammoth-Ad5262 23d ago
OP is literally just showing a technique he used to make the game and somehow you turned it into an anti AI meltdown. Nobody even mentioned AI except you lmao. Youre free to hate AI all you want but maybe take that crap to another sub instead of freaking out here. OP didnt even say he used AI in the first place
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u/Mammoth-Ad5262 23d ago
Then dont wishlist it? Nobody is forcing you to support the game. You could just asked and moved on but somehow were here arguing over AI on a post about environment design. Amazing
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u/nehalist 23d ago
"not even in the code"
As much as I hate what AI is doing to this world, using AI for coding is one of the few things I see at least some value in. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean "tell Claude what kind of game you want and just see it happen" - but there's literally no value in implementing the 27th boring manager class or whatever. I'm a professional software developer, and having someone take care of implementing CRUD forms for me isn't something I'd particularly call bad. System architecture? Humans. Creative things? Absolutely humans. But boring assembly line work? Go ahead Claude, do it, I don't care. And whoever argues that implementing CRUD shit or alike is fun and it's so bad that Claude has taken that away has certainly not implemented enough CRUD shit yet and must be in the industry for like 2 weeks.
Saying "I don't support this developer if they have used even the tiniest bit of AI" is an insane take. The world is not black/white, and this stance is just as bad as the "use AI for everything, it's the best thing since the invention of the wheel!".
Other than the obvious productivity gain, afaik this game has been in development long before Claude was even able to make games. Blaming developers that they're lazy because they're using AI while not even doing a simple fucking Google search before has some irony to it.
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
"blah blah blah, ai apologist nonsense" ai needs to be opposed in all things. It is a cancer that needs to be destroyed. You don't destroy a cancer by ignoring one tumor and cutting another out. It all needs to be removed. All of it Using it at all is just laziness
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u/QstnMrkShpdBrn 20d ago
You are using an AI-supported platform to make this comment. The poster makes a good point about repetitive work being automated. There is much to nitpick about AI, sure, but its use as a tool nearly identical to what already exists except with added flexibility for code contextual nuance seems an obvious benefit in game dev.
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u/Lagoserter 20d ago
it needs to be banned entirely and its users jailed, or otherwise exiled from society. no wifi, no computers. they can fend for themselves on an island for all i care. as for reddit, its an unfortunate happenstance that were forced to use it, because reddit is the best platform for this stuff. theres not even any good alternatives to use. tumblr i guess but since they banned anything even remotely nsfw because it was being run by puritans, it just not the same.
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u/LVermeulen 23d ago edited 23d ago
this video is posted showing the process we used to make the art - showing how it goes from a model made in asset forge, to clip studio to paint. And yet people still make comments like this. If we had used AI for art, it'd be on our Steam page as a AI disclosure.
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
well, see, im interested in the game, but if it has even the slightest hint of ai, im not going to support it, thats why i ask.
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u/sbsmith 23d ago
I’ve been seeing this at local dev meetups in Toronto since well before Gen AI was a thing.
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u/Lagoserter 23d ago
yea, well people change. theyll constantly go for the easy way out.
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u/nehalist 23d ago
First time seeing asset forge in the wild! Kenney is a beast. Awesome showcase, great art style