Homeworld Remastered (2015) Ship Viewer
A re-usability and scalability proof of implementation project using modules from the R-Type Ship Viewer project, namely the Addressables Async Loader, Sound/Music Manager and assets workflow to rapidly construct a ship viewer for Homeworld.
Homeworld is yet another sci-fi game with very iconic and interesting ship designs which captivated the imagination when it was released.
Homeworld is yet another sci-fi game with very iconic and interesting ship designs which captivated the imagination when it was released.
v1.3
Features
- Created custom shader in shader graph to show Team colors (Taiidan and Vaygr motherships has in-game colors now)
- Added a backlighting at starboard
Audio
- Added a music (Homeworld 1 original ending credits song)
Art
- Kushan Missle Frigate
- Kadeshi Multi-beam Frigate
- Fixed some model import settings
v1.2
Art
- Vaygr Mothership
- Kadeshi Mothership
v1.1
Features
- Navigation UI to cycle ships
Art
- Kushan Mothership
- Tiidan Mothership
v1.0
Features
- Sound/Music manager
- Addressables Async Loader
- Basic viewer functionality
Art
- Bentusi Exchange ship
- Nebula skybox
- As usual, models were cleaned up in 3D Studio Max. Smoothing normals.
Extracting emission map (green channel) from some of the ship's textures.
Update: Instead of manually extracting emission map (as shown in the image below), a custom shader was developed, see "Code" section.
- Modules from R-Type viewer is re-used and rapidly deploy Homeworld viewer.
- Using Unity3D's Shader Graph to create a custom shader by "reverse-engineering" the various texture used by the models.
Createing the custom shader also allowed simulating extra shading features such as customizing Team Colors (for player/multiplayer color customizations).
It's interesting to learn that the team colors + emission + detail maps were combined into one texture assigned to each RGB channels.
