Week 8 : Don't Draw it All...

We had our class on Monday, It was held online. After that we did the hack'n'plan scrum meeting. and decided what need to be done for this week. The main issue we were facing was with the rendering of the objects. So this is what happened, while we were planning we did not account for the performance issue posed by having hundreds of objects placed randomly across the game and also make them look good at the same time. We tried to bake individual room prefabs which wont work for our case. then we tried to bake occlusion culling provided by Umbra. Which failed as well. then we were lucky enough to find a package that offers occlusion culling on runtime. we tested it out and finally managed to get it working on our project which worked quiet well and solved our rendering and batching issue.

later I worked on the Improving the visual quality of our game. for that I boosted the color of our almost all the textures in the game. Tweaked the Shader. worked on the lighting so that I will look good overall and feel fitting with the characters we already have. I took me almost 7 days of trial and error to find a balanced color and mood for our game. I am planning to work on audio and ambiance of the game the coming week. so that we could put it out for testing so that we could collect peer/user feedbacks.

Transferable Skills

Work Well Under Pressure : During the tests we came across the fact that due to the nature of the level of our game the fps started to tank really badly to the point the game is unplayable of low-end devices. And considering the stage of development we are in, I was in a bit of pressure to finding a solution to this problem. But as always I found a fix for it soon.

Positive Attitude : Even at times were odes seam to be against us, we marched forward proudly knowing that our pain and efforts will all payoff soon in one form or the other, but surely as pride and confidence.

References

Simple occlusion culling - Unity 3D[Tutorial][C#]. (2016, August 19). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmuQmydipGg

Unity 3d FPS Game Tutorial - OCCLUSION CULLING (01)(Download free). (2020, May 20). [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBlNpZKt5C4