Making a 3D game with ONLY ONE texture...

[@ty79films30]

Adding some kind of shader would make this look a lot better

[@prekanyxd1170]

a background would be good too

[@Overposting]

yeah this game needs some styling

[@Auti3D]

@@Overposting Although i can definitely degree. id say the gameplay is alot more important. it would be easier to make functions, and levels. or even the entire game before thinking about adding shaders.

[@echoptic775]

Will u add it?

[@JulianSloman]

As per other comment - it does have "smooth shading" - so more accurately you mean changing the shader or adding additional shaders

[@rskityaev]

Well, using one texture for whole game is a pretty common optimization technique in mobile gaming. I did like 3 such projects as a 3d artist. You just compile your texture atlas with bunch of different colors and gradients, to simulate shading. Yeah, unlit shading is another bit optimization thing on mobiles.

[@moldy9041]

i feel like this would look really good with cell shading

[@Qurinum]

definitely

[@arlojad]

definitely

[@KrazyKotYoutube]

definitely

[@myth0572]

definitely

[@beeleav]

definitely

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

You can make the eyeball look around using a shader instead of using bones and setting up animation components and so on. You just give it a normalized direction going out from the centre of the eyeball and simply multiply it by it's radius to establish the position of the eye pupil. This can be easily achieved if you are familiar with compute shaders.

[@kale.online]

"rotate the pupil bone" really sent a chill down my spine

[@lucidattf]

This is very common for games, but usually the textures are merged into one file at runtime rather than during development. Regardless, this looks very cool!

[@KamranWali]

Awesome video! The game looks really good. I like the character model and it fits very well into your game and the story. Also it is true that using one texture and mat for all your models is going to be really performant. Keep it up! :)

[@iancrone2906]

I remembered watching this video 2 years ago and decided to come back to see how the creator was doing. You alright? You stopped posting a year ago--

[@camerongrondzki2716]

New Minecraft update looks kinda weird but im in

[@bside9955]

I think you could take the eye thing a little further and incorporate it as a mechanic to the game - maybe add obstacles that impair your vision, or effects, like when falling from a large distance, you could have the visibility be obscured for a bit. It might be a challenge to find ways to incorporate that without frustrating the player, but it would add depth and character to your game, & give a sense of purpose for the playermodel being an eye, it could tie in well with the story as well. Good job so far, I'm inspired by projects like this, as it shows that anything is possible in game development. Keep up the good work & I look forward to seeing where this goes :)

[@DPC2011]

well actually i think it would be two because you need to change the skybox

[@samuelseher153]

Really cool, though i couldnt help but notice that the normals on the level meshes seem to be quite off, the shading isnt quite right and it seems like its all smooth shaded when in some places it maybe shouldnt be. Other than that this looks quite fun.

[@hawkdevgames]

Yeah, I went a little overboard with the smooth shading, will probably be fixed by the next devlog.

[@flyingpiggles1034]

@@hawkdevgames Turning on "Auto smooth" in the mesh data tab in blender might help quite a bit in making the normals look better.

[@iakuro5338]

@@hawkdevgames Another way to go, and how I like to add edges to my model, is by turning Auto Smooth to 180*, then marking my edges manually by selecting, then marking sharp. :)

[@krisvelivia]

@@hawkdevgames Also no offense but the tonemapping settings look blatantly like ass right now, but that's mainly because Unity's default tonemapping settings are frankly terrible - there is a way to change it though I believe.

[@LiamSwiftTheDog]

@@iakuro5338 This is how I do it too, it's a great way to do it imo

[@UsernameDoesntCare]

Make the game less bright and shiny, the whole aesthetic just looks wrong with it. Make the menus more stylized, add a logo at some point, maybe add fading transitions when you load so that the transition between checkpoints isnt too jarring. With the whoile game revolving around gods, you could incorporate a much darker theme, making the sky or background black and having torches illuminate the stages. Maybe you could even make the eye's pupil glow in the dark

[@jacklewis1248]

It's still being made bro

[@UsernameDoesntCare]

@@jacklewis1248 yeah, and? I'm giving him feedback.

[@jacklewis1248]

@@UsernameDoesntCare its all negitive though like yes you should give negitive feedback too, but most people also say what they think is good.

[@UsernameDoesntCare]

@@jacklewis1248 I'm highlighting key aspects that I think make the game look strange. I did not mean to be overly negative, but I do believe this type of criticism is definitely helpful. And as for whats good? Well, I'm not very good at highlighting what makes it good, because I don't really think theres much there of note, I mean. Its a 3d puzzle platformer, so, cool I guess, idk.

[@jacklewis1248]

@@UsernameDoesntCare K but next time just dont be over negitive

[@coz752]

ow ow .. I'd see about having the eye stare at you occasionally and maybe doing a bit of a 'no'-shake with a squint orsome or stare dejectedly at player, e.g. when it's made to fall down onto a ledge below or doing a puzzle in the wrong order or similar situations ((and then maybe a happy shake when finishing the level)) .. but then again you probably thought of these things :)

[@fridaykitty]

oh hey, older minecraft versions (i think before 1.5) used a texture atlas "terrain.png" like this! hd texture packs were a lot trickier to make back then. nowadays all the textures are seperate pictures, and then stitched together into an atlas at runtime

[@mrcomegatos6381]

This is giving me some Bounce vibes. Looks very promising and that instant play with the camera angle change is so satisfying...

[@sputnick1]

no one tell him the skybox is a texture

[@williamist]

Optimization is really interesting, excited to see more :D.

[@CATASTEROID934]

I guess using a texture atlas *technically* counts as using a single large texture. A word of advice; try giving the eye a simple coloured iris, it would make it more immediately recognisable as an eye.

[@owlsgalore2391]

his voice sounds like he's pluging his nose

[@SURVIVEDCHANNEL]

sorry if im saying something dumb but the white part of the eye is quiet weird looking

[@Darksoulmaster]

Baking lighting and adding an hdri (unless your only texture cannot contain it)

[@S41L0R]

some of the models might look better with flat shading... they have so few polys that I feel like they could benefit from that.

[@ZaksHaks]

Dude this is awesome! Idk how you dont have more subscribers tho

[@STICKOMEDIA]

This looks surprisingly good

[@exeecob3488]

I think you could give the eye eyelashes to make it look more appealing, and the sclera could be less muddy

[@Xizilqou]

This game looks really promising, I've had the idea of making a game with a rolling ball with an eye on it, and you are doing what I thought but cooler. Perhaps the eye could look at your cursor's position on the screen or where your camera is facing instead of just looking around randomly.

[@ninjatintin9074]

hyperbolica already is a game that uses only a few texture files, most of those only being depth effect thing UVs and shadows, while the actual textures being just gradients

[@GEONEgaming]

Wait till this guy hears about texture atlases and channel packing.

[@bunbunh4932]

How play game

[@mrcatling4430]

the pixels on the eye have different sizes, the game would look a lot more polished with all the pixels from the texture the same size ingame/on the models

[@stanley9653]

You probably could've achieved better results with like the RGB gradient as your texture and just colouring your assets with it by scaling your uv down to 0 in blender.

[@edvinwendt9977]

If you dont like uv unwrapping and having a texture you can look in to vertex colors, basicaly you assign a color to a vertex but you can also assign a color to a hole face. This way you do not even have to open the uv edditor :)

[@hawkdevgames]

Good point, I actually tried out some vertex coloring in the other project I briefly showed off in the video , specifically on that floating tentacle eye thing. But I really want to get comfortable with texturing so I'll defiantly stick with this for now.

[@lemmiix]

1:23 "the pupil bone" is probably the most cursed thing I've year this year so far xd

[@TheAverageDev1]

I use UE4 and it has post process volumes that handle a lot of this for you with a click of a button, so I am not sure how this will translate to unity, but here are some thoughts. - add post process effects - add more shading, Cel shading would probably look nice. - add a bit of foliage, stylized would look nice. - maybe add a few smooth look arounds with the pupil instead of just the instant snaps.

[@hawkdevgames]

I already added post processing in the latest devlog, and some of these are on my todo list for sure, thanks for the advice :)

[@diamom_]

You talk so elegantly that I didn't even think that "Why am I watching this? I don't even know what this is" Before the video almost ended. 👍🏻

[@TheGamer79835]

Finally, I found another good indie dev to subscribe to

[@Dukkz24]

Can you maybe link to any documentation or videos you used to learn how save systems work? As I understand it, it's a dictionary of flags that you flip when things happen? I guess I don't see how it connects to the game right or something.

[@GalaxyNeon9]

This game looks so normal but the plot is very deep

[@robertwyatt3912]

I REALLY like the eyeball concept

[@Marc_Fuchs_1985]

With this level of optimization, the game might run at stable 30fps at 900p on the Switch.

[@numero7mojeangering]

What about making the eye gummy?

[@jaredglasgow3]

I thought you were saying guards so when i heard "the most powerful of all the guards" i was thinking "hmm yes a quite powerful guard."

[@truestbluu]

you could use one texture with multiple textures on it

[@randompast]

Hard mode = you see through the eye! Very cool!

[@kalicrowamusic3315]

If you look into using URP in Unity, then, you can easily make custom shaders to push those textures further. I like the idea a lot, I might try it!

[@stacyardus3898]

id suggest, set the sky to a solid color or something, the default unity skybox doesnt compliment ur game that much

[@er5439]

Awesome cool video bro very good

[@ScutoidStudios]

this game totally needs a shader, with hard lighting like cellshading

[@maximlapochkin4355]

lol, it's pretty easy like if you're doing all modelling and shading in blender and using only noise texture and some mapping and magic stuff like color ramp, mix shaders and shit

[@splatters_2066]

you should make the eye follow the cursor or option on the menu

[@firefire4691]

This game needs more textures

[@oktup]

I think the white of the eye should move with the pupil

[@phillipmaslyanchuk5261]

This is amazing! I wonder why KZbin isn’t showing this to much people 🤔

[@Sthangimations]

Absolutely awesome

[@HidekiShinichi]

You should make a texture around pupil move with it and then it would look way better.

[@linc_gb]

This guy is a time traveler

[@GoldenGrenadier]

IIRC this is how Doom(2016) and other Idtech engine games handle their textures textures which makes them very efficient with VRAM. I think the technique is called virtual textures.

[@IkesDaddelbox]

In my nonsensical mind this is Dark Matter's brother, rolling through the madness his evil brother has created.

[@NINEx7x]

To understand the logic behind smooth shading, I'd recommend checking out Dinusty Empire here on KZbin, he just released a video explaining weighted normals. Good luck with your gamedev journey!

[@Prolu7]

This is probably more or less personal preference, but I wouldn't use Cinemachine for this kind of roll-a-ball game. It (from my experience) makes the camera feel annoying and a bit sluggish. I'm gonna say though this game is looking fun already.

[@Gofawu]

Doom 2016 have only one texture, a big big big atlas

[@desawwww]

"Cause of dead: It was shoking" hahahhaa

[@BKing007]

Well gonna be a interesting game and series to watch! Subscribing now

[@maskedmystery5456]

Might i reccomend other characters (interactable npc's) to give some flesh to the story

[@Chess_not_bot]

It is wheatly with skin and I can't unsee it

[@circumferenced]

The eyeball is scary. Everything else is good

[@juhotuho10]

Giving an eye to a old and blind god / father to revitalize a dead culture / dying society is a very old and deep rooted idea in the human history and writing. It's not 100% the same as the idea in your game, but it's pretty damn close. Did old stories or something similar inspire you or did you come up with the idea on your own?

[@GemTappX]

Cool video! I'm about to start working on my 3D as well. Are you using pro builder? Or just blender?

[@hawkdevgames]

I just use blender

[@deadbrav]

at the time when i saw the video i clicked the vid with only my 1 pinkie finger

[@wach2]

Wow! You just earned a sub!

[@ilkkuPvP]

I've done all of my projects with only an 8x8 color palette. Nice game tho :)

[@justastranger101]

you should make a *loads of textures* setting

[@stephenkamenar]

modern gpu can use like 64 textures without any performacne loss

[@direboy]

Interestingly it reminds me the graphics in Valheim

[@daboxguy3848]

The ingenuity of this project is amazing. I really love the lore, reminds me of Greek mythology. Doesn't Minecraft only use one texture?

[@redactedredactd5554]

no...?

[@cat1554]

@@redactedredactd5554 Used to! One giant sheet for everything.

[@redactedredactd5554]

@@cat1554 used to, but they don't anymore.

[@mewlani9836]

Its like a Nintendo Ds game! PLEASE add a setting for nintendo ds graphics!!

[@shrippie-4214]

Based loves optimizing

[@FreezeFrameAnimations]

and then i can rotate the pupil bone.......

[@Ahsmic]

I have a great idea put a raw image over the camera and make it look retro with reduced quality

[@hawkdevgames]

I've thought about it, could look really cool.

[@LightAndy]

there is a minor problem.. you shaded smooth but you didn't use auto smooth (object data, green one) I recommend using it

[@hawkdevgames]

Yeah, I’ve fixed that in my latest devlog

[@ShrubRustle]

Didn't most of the textures in Minecraft used to be in a single image file?

[@kinnardasdf]

why does it look like the CBS eye

[@LakesideTrey]

Fun looking game! I have a soft spot for platformers with rolling characters for some reason. Do you plan for the whole game to take place in the same sort of grassy area, or will there be variation in the terrain (like a snowy or lava area for example). Is there anywhere on Steam or whatnot where the game can be wishlisted?

[@hawkdevgames]

Thanks, I plan on more types of locations for sure, but I don't have a steam page or anything like that yet.

[@LakesideTrey]

@@hawkdevgames Nice.

[@clvdragon2208]

Looks like a very nice fun game.

[@Auti3D]

Amazing! i personally dont use unity because i keep taking breaks and forgetting code! :( so i use unreal :)

[@razi_man]

So the character is "a god" but also an eyeball? Damn, I imagine the character you made get along just fine with Biblically accurate angels.

[@fr0zencapybara27]

it sounds like this guy is covering his nose

[@tibby7709]

lOOOKS LIT EXCITED AF TO PLAY

[@ceqell]

OKAY I WATCHED IT NOW CAN YOU PLEASE STOP RECOMMENDING THIS TO ME KZbin

[@0arrayy]

Please add shaders like cartoony outline or any you like and **PLEASE** skybox

[@hawkdevgames]

A skybox is definitely on the todo list, and an outline could look cool.

[@0arrayy]

@@hawkdevgames yessir! Why not make the skybox texture the same? 🤔

[@Temporaryusername-i4h]

What's it called

[@realhuman4396]

Be not afraid

[@TopatTom]

Good Luck!

[@benedikt2426]

Add a first person mode if you want to make it harder.

[@EnoYaka]

this is awesome

[@josefigueroa813]

Did you learn C# before using unity? also how did you learn how to implement a player controller? and what about math? lol

[@hrafnkellorrirastarson7544]

Iceland?

[@hawkdevgames]

yep

[@BananaDinoNugget]

I need to play that

[@CraizyMotion]

Where do you download this