Today I tested how to simulate chopping a tree down, and spawn resources with a random rotation, random count.
Also noticed with the default behavior, the Player was hitting the spawned cut down tree and resoureces.
I learned how to create a dedicated layer for collisions to mask specified layers.
Had a rough time with Unity’s Avatar Masks
After successfully importing a few animation along with my proto typing Blueberry looking character, I quickly realized that I had to read up on Avatar Masks.
When the character is walking and attack animation is triggered, the walk freezes. Basically making the character look like it’s sliding for a brief moment.
After looking up forum posts and youtube videos, most of the information were on Avatar Masks using Humanoid Avatar type.
My Blueberry is using a Generic avatar. This meant that I have to manually select which bones to mask from the Transform menu within the Avatar Mask’s inspector/property.
My bones are generated using Blender’s Rigify and I haven’t looked deep into the bone relations. This gave me a hefty 6 hour troubleshooting session thinking I had something wrong elsewhere…
TLDR; I missed a few bones that were related to the upperbody animation which I had to have selected.
Tris: 5,500 = barely Low poly? Mid?
I truly hate working on characters in Blender. I know you just need practice, but I rather work on props. The learning curve and art direction seems to be easier 2D/Pixel for beginners. I’m sure Mastering the skill is a whole different story.
After reading through some posts by other artists, I came to a conclusion that 5,500 triangles is probably nearing the ceiling of being abel to call this model a low poly.
Simulating Day Night Cycle
This is a first attempt and test using the directional light
using UnityEngine;
public class DayNightCycle : MonoBehaviour
{
[Header("Time Settings")] [Range(0, 24)]
public float timeOfDay = 12.0f;
// seconds in real time for a full day cycle
public float dayDuration = 240.0f;
[Header("Sun Settings")] public Light sun;
public Gradient sunColor;
public AnimationCurve sunIntensity;
[Header("Sky Settings")] public Material skyboxMaterial;
public float maxAmbientIntensity = 1.0f;
public Gradient ambientColor;
void Update()
{
// Update time of day
timeOfDay += Time.deltaTime / dayDuration * 24.0f;
if (timeOfDay >= 24.0f) {
timeOfDay -= 24.0f;
}
// Calculate sun rotation
// 15 degrees per hour, offset to start at dawn
var sunRotation = timeOfDay * 15.0f - 90.0f;
// Apply rotation to the sun
sun.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(sunRotation, -30.0f, 0);
// Update light color and intensity based on time of day
var dayNightRatio = Mathf.InverseLerp(0, 24, timeOfDay);
if (timeOfDay > 12) {
dayNightRatio = Mathf.InverseLerp(24, 12, timeOfDay);
}
sun.color = sunColor.Evaluate(dayNightRatio);
sun.intensity = sunIntensity.Evaluate(dayNightRatio);
// Update ambient lighting
RenderSettings.ambientLight = ambientColor.Evaluate(dayNightRatio);
// Update skybox (if using a skybox that supports time of day)
if (skyboxMaterial != null && skyboxMaterial.HasProperty("_Exposure")) {
skyboxMaterial.SetFloat("_Exposure", sunIntensity.Evaluate(dayNightRatio));
}
}
}