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Watch me drawing leaves !!!IN 1080p HD!!! s3sprite Lua API Library
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Yes, I'm still working on the game!
No, I have nothing cool to show at the moment. The name, simply because it has Stranded in it which might lead to confusion They added a Wilson reference. To everyone who doesn't know who Wilson is: Watch the (awesome) movie "Cast Away". I added Wilson to Stranded II as well - about 8 years ago... They are earning tons of money (it's a topseller on steam which means much) with a game which - at the moment - has significantly less content than my free titles... this makes me a bit thoughtful...
I clearly don't want to take any legal steps! I'm not against Stranded Deep! Everyone should be allowed to develop whatever they like. I fully support this idea of total freedom in game development. Only the result counts: Good games. Taking existing ideas and improving them is crucial and should be supported by everyone. I'm doing exactly this myself a lot. I think that Beam Team / Stranded Deep deserves the success. They put a lot of time and effort into the game and they did many things right. The game looks amazing and has huge potential become really awesome. My actual point was and still is the following: Please tell people about Stranded. I want people to know that Stranded Deep is not the first/only game of this type (of course Stranded isn't either!). 
800x600 Version (~785kb) A simple list of steps to get my Blender models into Unity Rotation of [0, 0, 0] in Unity = rotation in Blender Scale of [1, 1, 1] in Unity = scale in Blender Materials and textures should work too
red = x green = y blue = z Use an empty game object as parent of your model in Unity and then rotate the model inside it but not the parent. Now whenever you want to move/rotate/scale the model you only touch its parent. This hides the messed up rotation but of course it costs additional performance/memory for the empty parent object. It probably doesn't cost much but it's a pretty dirty "fix" nevertheless. Just rotate the model in Blender! Seems like an easy fix but it's not convenient and doesn't feel right either. Export the model with correct axis conversion. That's what I want to do. It means that I can't use *.blend files directly but it seems to be the best approach.
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using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using System.IO;
public class ModelImportScale : AssetPostprocessor {
private const float FBXScale = 1f;
private void OnPreprocessModel() {
ModelImporter importer = assetImporter as ModelImporter;
if (importer != null) {
if (Path.GetExtension(importer.assetPath) == ".fbx") {
Debug.Log("FBX Import Postprocessor: " + importer.assetPath + ", use globalScale: " + FBXScale);
importer.globalScale = FBXScale;
}
}
}
}
spriteRenderer.sortingLayerName = "Default";
spriteRenderer.sortingLayerID = 0;
Animating a projector texure: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/39572/using-a-projector-to-place-a-animated-image-on-a-t.html Custom shader for tiled caustics: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/414989/resizing-a-projector-and-tiling-texture.html They don't tile seamlessly. There's a visible edge which is NOT caused by the texture. See image below. They are not affected by fog. On some models they cause strange artifacts.
) Create a 2D array for the map Iterate over the array in x and y direction (nested loop) with a certain step size > 1 For each step spawn a point at the current position with a random offset (which is smaller than the step size) In some (random) cases spawn an additional point with another small offset in the same area The point(s) created per step will get a an ID Iterate over the entire array (nested loop, now over EVERY array cell so the step size is 1) For each cell iterate over all random points and find the closest one to the current position Save the unique ID of the closest point in that array cell
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click to enlarge 1. Rivers look artificial because they are not curvy enough 2. Rivers stop in most cases and never reach the sea because chances that they just hit a hill are very high. 3. Changing only one single heightmap altitude per river "tile" is not sufficient to form a good looking riverbed. Also it doesn't allow different river sizes.
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sprite = s3sprite.create(image, x, y)
s3sprite.setColor(sprite, {255, 0, 0})
s3sprite.setRotation(sprite, math.random(360))
s3sprite.setSize(sprite, 3, 3)
sprite = s3sprite.create(image, x, y)
sprite.setColor({255, 0, 0})
sprite.setRotation(math.random(360))
sprite.setSize(3, 3)
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I'll probably touch this texture again to improve it a bit. Click to watch on YouTube!
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areasToKeep = {menu.area.settings},
start = function(self)
menuSettingsButtons()
gui.area:createMain()
gui.label.add("Resolution")
local resTable = s3screen.getResolutions()
local resList = {}
for i = 1, #resTable do
resList[i] = resTable[i].width .. " x " .. resTable[i].height
--print(resList[i])
end
gui.combobox.add(resList)
gui.insert:nextCol()
gui.checkbox.add("Fullscreen")
gui.insert:nextCol()
gui.checkbox.add("Vertical Synchronization (VSync)")
gui.insert:yPad(true)
gui.label.add("Texture Quality")
gui.slider.add({"very low and very long string", "low", "medium", "good"})
gui.label.add("Anti Aliasing")
gui.slider.add({"off", "2x", "4x", "8x"})
gui.label.add("Shadows")
gui.slider.add({"off", "very low", "low", "medium", "good", "very good", "ultra"})
gui.label.add("Ambient Occlusion", {"Awesome ambient occlusion", "AKA SSAOAA", menu.gfx.icon_cancel})
gui.slider.add({"Off", "Low Quality", "Medium Quality", "High Quality"})
gui.label.add("Bloom")
gui.slider.add({"off", "very weak", "weak", "medium", "strong", "very strong"})
gui.label.add("Motion Blur")
gui.slider.add({"off", "very weak", "weak", "medium", "strong", "very strong"})
gui.label.add("Sun Shafts")
gui.slider.add({"Off", "Low Quality", "Medium Quality", "High Quality"})
gui.label.add("Depth of Field")
gui.slider.add({"off", "very weak", "weak", "medium", "strong", "very strong"})
end,
update = function(self)
end
}
gui.insert.columns = {1, 2}
gui.insert.columns = {1, 2, 1, 2}
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gui.tabs.add({"Skill A", "Skill B", "Skill C", "skill D"}, callback)
function callback(tabindex)
-- do something when the tab is switched
end
gui.tabs.add({
{icon = icon1, tooltip = "this is a tab bar with icons"},
{icon = icon2, tooltip = "it also has tooltips"},
{icon = icon3, tooltip = "awesome"},
}, callback)
It was a busy week and I don't have new stuff to show this time! No worries though! I'll try to create some more models for the next blog entry to compensate! 
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