November 13 2016

P-172: Unity: Space Environment: Part 43: Art, AI, Substance Painter

PhoenixGames Astral Realms, P-0, Software and Games, Spiritus Astrum

I have finished all of the ai actions that I had planned to do. I have added a reasonable selection of standard tasks that should add a lot of depth to the game. AI characters can eat, sleep, work, workout, and relax, as well as approach the player without being called on. They can also follow a number of commands that the player can give.

I have a lot of work left to do with the AI in MS1, including adding lip synching and text to speech, basic conversation dialog, and improved awareness, etc.

I am also doing well with Substance painter. I think I like it better than Quixel. Today was the first day I really spent a lot of time on it, and I think I have already learned most of the basic functionality. I spend several days with quixel, and I still felt that I wasn’t really getting the hang of it.

I think this program will go a long way to improving my art. I can basically use it for all of my basic materials, and then I can add details (like writing, etc) in photoshop, as I always did.

I created some rust effects and some wear effects very quickly in Substance painter that I never could have created in photoshop. There seem to be fewer tutorials created for Substance painter, but this may just be because I haven’t been using it for long and I haven’t found all of them yet.

I am still not sure about nDo, I could find an alternative, or just add the geometry from a modelling tool, instead of in a normal. I think the effects produced by nDo were very striking.