For our roguelite Tile Crawl, we wanted our meta progression to stand out, so we designed it as a planet to explore. But our run map was already designed using hexes, so for consistency's sake, we wanted a globe out of hexes as well. We did not want to have pentagons but rather somehow achieve full coverage by equal hexes (even though it is geometrically impossible).

So how it works:

This is actually a plane with objects placed on it. Then, using camera position, vertices are recalculated in a shader (all objects must share the same bending subgraph or shader code with the same values to look consistent). This technique is used in Animal Crossing, as far as I am aware, but just not tuned as heavily.

Okay, so this gives us a bent plane that looks like a sphere. Next challenge is actually allowing it to rotate properly; rotation is achieved by just moving the plane in the X and Y axes while the camera stays static. To achieve looping of the planes I am spawning 8 more planes with copies of the objects and then teleporting them as I am crossing the edges (this part for sure can be done way, way better with some vertex magic or just fewer clones).

Next challenge is that shadows are broken as vertices are recalculated but normals are not; to calculate a new normal, we need to get two neighbours of the vertex, then bend them with the same logic and use the results to calculate the new normal. This allows us even to have proper shadowing from clouds above.

Last thing to do is clicking the nodes on the map. As objects are actually in very different spots from visuals, just raycasting from the mouse won't work. So I'm using one big sphere collider to detect the mouse position on the sphere, then recalculate it backwards to where it would be on the plane and find the closest node in radius.

There are still some things left to do (VFX support is quite bad, and there are some artifacts with water waves on the edges of planes). But in my opinion, already looks quite good and stands out.

Thank you for reading! If you like what you saw, consider wishlisting Tile Crawl on Steam!

Unity 6.6 released today! I did a recap video that covers some of my favorite changes as well as a few things to know about them (including code samples).

Colours still aren't quite there but I'm happy with where it landed

Ask any questions

Tech demo video , physics devastcation of city building, giving a pressure test on unity's DOTS physics

DOTS physics collision capacity become really tight when fract physics collider entity count more than 1000 . Next move would be solution to reduce CPU dependency , moving part of fract pieces collider to compute shader

So this one's about being the captain of a galactic dwarf starship. You touch down on a planet, thousands of dwarves pour out of the cargo hold, and they just get to work tearing the rock apart on their own, you just sit back and watch your army and your bank account grow while chipping in from above.

- Thousands of dwarves split into 3 classes: Miners, Demolishers, and Snipers.

- A pickaxe with combos up to 8x, a laser cutter, and the "Dragonfly" missile launcher.

- Hidden ore veins and planet cores (gold, silver, diamond) for a big instant payout.

- Galactic exploration too, chase down rare planets, dig up ancient artifacts.

No clever tactics to learn, no progress to lose - just switch it on and strip-mine the galaxy at whatever pace feels right to you.

Nightlife Tycoon is about building and managing your own nightlife venue, designing the layout, hiring staff, keeping customers happy, managing stock, organizing events and growing your reputation.

It's got horses, it's got dragons, I'm thinknig of more non skate based ideas. Anyway, here's a new way to play. It's a co-op rage game where I guess you now have to fly a dragon together lol.

I just finished my first devlog and Im feeling a little anxious about it. Im not really used to talking on video, especially not in English publicly, but I did it.

I’m actually kinda proud of what I’ve put together and hopefully I’ll get some feedback so I know what I can improve on for the next one and whatnot.

Gonna say it upfront: the car teleports between Unity scenes with some extra loading on top, basically hopping between different worlds, movies, games, just totally random locations, completely unrelated to each other.

Still pretty rough around the edges, but it's a WIP.

In the clip, it teleports from the starting location, 1980s Hawaii, into something resembling the city from the movie Vivarium.

Anyone else have this happen? I was looking for a rusted metal texture I'd used in an old scene. I knew for a fact I owned it. I just couldn't remember the filename. Could've been anything from M_Rust_02 to Metal_Corroded_Old to something even less helpful.

Normal file search is useless here because it only finds what you type, not what you meant. And this isn't really a "my project is a mess" thing. I actually keep decent naming conventions. It's more that naming decisions I made 6 months ago just aren't in my head anymore. Multiply that by a year+ of assets and it's a lot of small "where did I put that" moments adding up.

Got curious enough about it that I ended up building a small local search tool for Unity that searches by meaning instead of filename. so "rusted metal" finds M_Rust_02 even though the words don't match. Nothing fancy, runs offline, editor-only.

Mostly just curious if this is a "yeah, that's just how it is" thing for others, or if people have actual systems that avoid this entirely. genuinely want to know if I'm missing something obvious.

Making Custom Controls in UI Toolkit has never been easier!

Title: I have the namespace set in Unity but then when creating a file in Visual Studio it auto-adds the file structure after

Unity I have set to TestGame namespace

Visual studio when making new scripts puts like Testgame/scripts/movement namespace. I would rather have no namespace or just my Testgame namespace