I was going to post this yesterday and got distracted by another personal project. I’m feeling fairly good with Unreal 4 sans a few obvious little qwerks I need to iron out, and Unity… geeze Unity. Unity isn’t just fighting me, it crazy.
Starting with the stronger work 'cus that’s what I’m supposed to do right? I think I’m fairly close to matching my reference movement wise. I’d like to push it a touch farther with the overall stretch and squash, but over all I’m fairly happy with the movement. I’ve put part of my motion reference from my first post next to the fire I’ve made in Unreal 4.
Right now it’s obviously far more styled overall then realistic, and that’s ok. I’m curious to see if I can get the color closer to reference though. I’m not sure how I would go about it right now. Perhaps, instead of an additive blending I may play around with a multiplicative blending, as it seems to me that what realistic fire has is, oddly enough, a degree of dark to it. Plus, it might help really push the contrast that way. And of course, I need to see about fixing that black-glitch flickering.
Unreal 4 Campfire V2
Then… there is Unity.
Unity Campfire V2
I’ve tried playing with the Unlit/Lit settings, I’ve tried playing with the blending settings, I’ve tried playing around with the existing alpha work as interpreted by the FX editor; and I can’t seem to get rid of this… …well… it looks like to me like the particles are like those cloth based fake fires you see in haunted houses sort of. With the orange lit cloth whipping around with a little fan next to it.
Not only that, but at one point I was seeing results that were… not right. I renamed some of my assets to keep things tidy, and suddenly my shader just stopped working. Had to make a fresh shader forge shader file, and copy and paste the nodes to fix it.
Oh and one more thing…
I forgot that any changes you make while in “Game Mode” ( with play set to on), can’t be saved. Oh yeah, that’s the best. Thanks Unity. >_<
Seeing the different interpretations of each engine using the same assets has been as enlightening as I had hoped. I can feel that there is something I need to learn… but I don’t know what exactly what it is.
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