[Tutorial] IES Light on Unity

Without IES Light

IES Light on Unity

Back then, I thought IES light was useless, but when I’m making an interior scene for my Animation I notice a weirdness on ceiling lights. It was circle!!! There’s no circle shaped ceiling lights (except lightbulb)!

You’ll gonna need

• IESviewer 2.9
• Prtscr (Optional, if you don’t want to use MSPaint)
• And IES / LDT light of course!

And this is how

1. 
2. Go to IES Viewer and right click on your IES or LDR light and then click Render, or simply just press CTRL+R. Sometimes, the Render window just wont show, just delete .ini file and reopen IESViewer.
3. 
4. Adjust brightness, Zoom, and Distance until you pleased with the result then press Prt Scn / Print Screen on your keyboard. If you don’t have PrtScr, then you’ll need to open MSPaint (Press Winkey + R and type MSPaint). If you have PrtScr, hold CTRL and left click the render window and it’ll automatically crop it.
5. 
6. Paste (CTRL+V) on MSPaint and then crop the pasted clipboard like this. Save it as JPG or PNG.
7. This is my IES Light
8. Now go to Unity and import your IES light. Set texture type as Cookie, Light type as Point, Mapping : Mirrored Ball, Glossy Reflection, Fixup Edge Seams, Alpha from Grayscale (IMPORTANT!), and filter mode to Trilinear.
9. Go to Game Object > Light > Point Light, and assign your IES file to Cookie texture.
10. 
11. Now look! IES Light on Unity! Although it’s not important, but it’ll make scene looks more realistic than a nonsense circle light.

[Unity] Blendshape Eye Controller (Look At, Random Eyes, and Random Blink)

 

2019 UPDATE

I’ve noticed that Mediafire deleted the original script. Please use this script instead. This script is from my game (Project IMG). I’m sorry if there’s any error happened. This is more updated version and it’s C#

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uIVj-o5HvuuEr6_oHDRl1Or9umX1Vl9k

Controlling eyes with Unity’s blendshape controller is difficult especially Unity likes to make a blendshape is a float value which harder to control and you can’t even control any movement like down or left. The picture above represents the movement of their eyes. See closely with that cyclops, her eyes were move following that ball, meanwhile the penguin just stuttered with the eye (Random Eye and blink).

You’re gonna need 4 / 5 basic eye blendshapes like Up eye, Right eye, Down eye, Left eye, and blink (optional).

This is very useful tool especially for wannabe animator like me.

Download the script here,

Tutorial

1. 
2. Add this script on the root of your character.
3. 
4. Assign the number / ID of your Blendshape as in your blendshape mesh. I added isDebugging mode, that’ll ease you out finding the number of the blendshape.
5. 
   
6. After found the right ID, now you’re done! You can control eye movement via 2D Target now. But is that enough ? LOL NOPE!
   
7. To make it focus in 3D Way, create an empty game object and set it as target.
8. 
9. Sometimes this might happens (A certain eye moves in reverse way), to fix it, just invert the blendshape ID like Positive X Axis was 0 and set it to 1 and Negative X Axis was 1 and set it to 0.
   
10. Now look! Your character will focus on that object forever! But if that’s not please you enough, you can use Random Eyes mover (I forgot to make it move along with your target, so it’ll move along with the center of your head). But if you really do want random movement along your target, then just remove “target” line below randomizer target transform.

11. if(!randomizerTarget){
     randomizerTarget = new GameObject("RNDTRG");
     randomizerTarget.transform.position = blendshapeEyeMesh.transform.position;
     target = randomizerTarget.transform; // remove this
     }else{
     target.position += Random.onUnitSphere * Time.fixedDeltaTime/randomCompressor;
     }

12. And so do you want them blink ? just turn on Blinkable and your character will be blinkable. The higher value of blink speed the faster it’ll be. And what is Target Multiplier ? That’s just speed multiplier of your 3D target, how fast / sensitive their eye will follow your 3D target.

[Shader] Reflective Transparent / Water-like Unity Indie

This is what I promised. Sorry for being late, I’m kinda busy recently. I made this shader by merging between Transparent>Diffuse and Reflective>Diffuse. But I haven’t done with Normal Mapped Specular. My Unity kinda hates me, everytime I add Normal Map to this shader Unity Yells “Too many texture interpolators would be used for ForwardBase pass!” or “_ReflectColor no Properties!”. Perhaps you can do it yourself.

NOTE : I didn’t copy this script from internet. I just merge Unity’s Transparent>Diffuse and Reflective>Diffuse. So, if you are saying that I copy your script like that movie script I was made in 2012 and you found in 2014, go f*** yourself… By the way, this script ALREADY Exist on Nitro Racer XD on Epic Living Room track. I just made a lot of modification from Nitro Racer XD.

Shader name in Unity is “Glass Reflective_N”, and this is the preview / how to use the shader.

Want More Realistic ?

If you want more realistic, you could add UVMover (Moving main texture’s offset from script * Time.deltaTime), and Realtime Reflection INDIE. Adding some Caustic effects or Underwater effects or Normal Map or Specular Shininess. You can also use this shader for a glass…

Glass Reflective_N

Shader name is a little bit ironic isn’t it ? It says N for Normal Map support, but this shader couldn’t support Normal Map. Alright here’s the shader.

Shader "Glass Reflective_N" {
 Properties {
 _Color ("Main Color", Color) = (0.5,0.5,0.5,1)
 _ReflectColor ("Reflection Color", Color) = (1,1,1,0.5)
 //_Shininess ("Shininess", Range (0.01, 1)) = 0.078125
 _MainTex ("Base (RGB) TransGloss (A)", 2D) = "white" {}
 //_BumpMap ("Normalmap", 2D) = "bump" {}
 _Cube ("Reflection Cubemap", Cube) = "black" { TexGen CubeReflect }
 }
 SubShader {
 Tags {"Queue"="Transparent" "IgnoreProjector"="True" "RenderType"="Transparent"}
 Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha
 //Pass {
 // Color [_Color]
 // SetTexture [_MainTex] {
 // combine texture * primary
 // }
 // }
 LOD 300
 
 CGPROGRAM
 //#pragma surface surf BlinnPhong decal:add nolightmap
 #pragma surface surf BlinnPhong alpha
 //#pragma target 3.0
 sampler2D _MainTex;
 //sampler2D _BumpMap;
 samplerCUBE _Cube;
 //half _Shininess;
 
 fixed4 _ReflectColor;
 fixed4 _Color;
 
 struct Input {
 float3 worldRefl;
 float2 uv_MainTex;
 //float2 uv_BumpMap;
 INTERNAL_DATA
 };
 
 void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutput o) {
 fixed4 tex = tex2D(_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex);
 //o.Albedo = 1;
 //o.Gloss = 0;
 o.Albedo = tex.rgb * _Color.rgb;
 o.Gloss = tex.a;
 //o.Normal = UnpackNormal (tex2D (_BumpMap, IN.uv_BumpMap));
 
 //o.Specular = _Shininess;
 float3 worldRefl = WorldReflectionVector (IN, o.Normal);
 fixed4 reflcol = texCUBE (_Cube, IN.worldRefl);
 reflcol *= tex.a;
 o.Emission = reflcol.rgb * _ReflectColor.rgb;
 //o.Alpha = reflcol.a * _ReflectColor.a;
 o.Alpha = tex.a * _Color.a;
 
 }
 ENDCG
 }
 FallBack "Transparent/VertexLit"
}

 

[TUTORIAL] REALTIME Reflection on Unity Indie

I really amazed when I found this trick. I know that Unity INDIE could make a realtime reflection via CAMERA.RENDERCUBEMAP. However, there still has some limitations like not really slow, and only 64 pixels. If you set the update rate to 0.03, it’ll slow as hell (about 14 fps), and if you set the update rate to 1, it’s not slow (about 60 fps).

And this is the tutorial :

1. Go make a new javascript. The code are in the below of this post.
2. Go make a new Cubemap by clicking CREATE > CUBEMAP on project tab.
3. I named it “CUBOMAPO_REF”;
4. Assign this script on an object that you want to enable the reflection.
5. Assign CUBOMAPO_REF or your cubemap to CUBEMAP properties in your Reflective Object.
6. Assign YOUR CURRENT MATERIAL to CURRENT MATERIAL properties in your reflective object.
7. 
8. Adjust the update rate.
9. DONE! Now look what have you done! This is my preview…. With 0.2 Update Rate about 40 fps.

This is the code

#pragma strict

var cubemap : Cubemap;
var currentMaterial : Material;
var updateRate = 1.0;
private var renderFromPosition : Transform;
private var minz = -1.0;

function Start () {
    renderFromPosition = transform;
}

function Update () {
    if(Time.time - updateRate > minz){
        minz = Time.time - Time.deltaTime;
        RenderMe();
        currentMaterial.SetTexture("_Cube",cubemap);
        renderer.material = currentMaterial;
    }
}

function RenderMe(){
    var go = new GameObject( "CubemapCamera"+Random.seed, Camera );
        
    go.camera.backgroundColor = Color.black;
    go.camera.cullingMask = ~(1<<8);
    go.transform.position = renderFromPosition.position;
    if(renderFromPosition.renderer )go.transform.position = renderFromPosition.renderer.bounds.center;
    go.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
    
    go.camera.RenderToCubemap( cubemap );

    DestroyImmediate( go );
}

Advertise Yourself [Nitro Racer XD]

So, I’m still thinking to add some random advertising in Tribunes or in Billboard. I still have 5 free slots for both of them.

Tribunes Ads

So, It’ll be like this. Price ? Free… The texture size will be 512×512.

Free slots

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Billboard Ads

Price ? Same… Free. Come on, quick before i change my mind. The billboard texture size will be 512×512.

Free slots

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If you interested, please send your request on this form below, and send your ads images to my email vmon2010@hotmail.com

Name(required)

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Website

Ads Type(required)

Tribune

Billboard

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[Update] Shooting Star 2 (2013) Android & PC

I’ve updated since January 3, 2012. But my internet is too slow to post it here. I haven’t uploaded PC Version of Shooting Star 2. But i already uploaded Shooting Star 2 Android version.

Download here (Android)

Download here (PC)

Changes on Shooting Star 2 PC

1. Brigadier bug on Mouse Orbit Fixed
2. Fixed Camera bug fixed

Changes on Shooting Star 2 Android

1. Brigadier bug on Mouse Orbit Fixed
2. Set Active Recursively optimization mode
3. Far clip plane set to 300 earlier has 1000 which make it very very slow

Sorry i can’t fix the relative control things.

VOTE 4 CATAPULT

Catapult is Top 50 now in SlideDB. Please vote us more to win App of the year. Thank You :D

[Re-Released] Catapult WEB V1.04REV2

Since my friend says this is the best game i’ve ever made (even me), i decided to publish it on Kongregate.

Changes on Catapult WEB V1.04REV2

• Fixed Delete user data bug
• Fixed game saving bug

If you want to play it, you need Unity Web player that can be downloaded here.

Play Now : http://www.kongregate.com/games/centurionx86/catapult-core

[Released] Catapult DRoID V1.12

I’ve been released my first Android Game! It’s optimized for Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini and Samsung Galaxy Tab. It has some new features in droid version than core version. Some just like Minor Bug Fix, Added some FX / Features, Optimized (unused object deleted). ALL LEVELS ARE PASSED BY OFFICIAL BETA TESTERS WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM. Low end Device ? Use Performance Mode.

Catapult game with semi realistic trajectory physics system. Tap, Shoot and hit the enemies! It has 30 Challenging levels with 3 different themes and 3 challenging bonus levels.

Requirements :

• Android V2.1
• ARM v7
• OpenGL ES 1.x
• 30 MB Storage of Interal and External
• 600 MHz of Processor (1GHz is recommended)

Download here : http://slideme.org/application/catapult-0

http://slideme.org/widgets/app/482331/normal_dark

Get the Catapult Android app from SlideME.

[RELEASED] Catapult CORE V1.02B

It just a mini game with Catapult Physics Simulation. Inspiration come from when i playing my ruler (add something at the end of ruler and then throw it) in my school (on bored situation).

It has been passed fast quality control. I’m just found some bugs (it’s not a problem, it’s just a minor bugs). I know this game is a bit boring, but i made it for performance computer and quick game development challenge. Before you go ahead and download, read the readme first.

/* System Requirement */

Catapult requires at least the following:

FOR WINDOWS XP
* 2.66 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Performance Mode if Pixel Shader 1 or lower.
* The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
* At least 70 MB of hard drive space.

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
* 2.6 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Performance Mode if Pixel Shader 1 or lower.
* At least 70 MB of hard drive space.

FOR WINDOWS 7
* 2.6 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 128 MB RAM (it actually run 80MB)
* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Performance Mode if Pixel Shader 1 or lower.
* At least 70 MB of hard drive space.

/* Game Information */

Features:

• 3D Main Menu GUI
• Pixel Shader 2
• Fast Loading
• Performance Mode (FPS over 2000+ in Intel Core i3 @ 3.10 GHz)
• PlayerPrefsX
• 33 Game levels with 5 Different themes
• Ragdoll Physics
• Optimized 3D Characters and Models

Controls:
Rotate Catapult : A, D, or arrow keys
Throw Catapult : Space
Use Wind Resist : [E]
Explode : [Q]

/* Download and Trailer */

Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkaFAYA_DJc
Download : http://goo.gl/UUTH7 Rapidshare

/* Reviews */

• Calvin (Official Beta Testers) : “It’s a junk!”
• Bella S.C (Official Beta Testers) : “Really nice! I like it!”
• Rio C.T (Investors) : “What game is this ?”
• Jacky Min (Official Beta Testers) : “Don’t Copy other people’s idea.”

/* Credits */

Created and Developed by Skipper Centurion

3D Models : Skipper Centurion, Unity FPS Tutorials (Crate3.fbx, CrateSmall.fbx)

Music : 150Days – ko0x, The Day they Landed (Ampli, Kmuland & raina)

Special Thanks to : Eric5h5, Pixelstudio.nl, fafase (for CORE Catapult script).