Art: WFC/Wave function collapse city

https://github.com/marian42/wavefunctioncollapse

This is a good Unity repo + codebase for procedurally generating cities, better than what I had planned. It essentially uses a set of prefabs to glue together a cityscape based on fills and heuristics.

The actual blocks FBX is here: https://github.com/marian42/wavefunctioncollapse/blob/master/Assets/blocks.fbx

We can use this to fill the need to have a city in Zone 0, meeting the last requirement for the trailer.

The work involved is:

• create a more solarpunk set of prefab blocks, by editing the existing blocks.fbx; we might also want to create the textures at this stage
• update the algorithm to increase height a bit
• generate a bake
• fix textures (if needed) and and edges to create the final city model

Inspiration

[marian42]

Hello, I hope you don’t mind me commenting here!

Some thoughts on the current blocks:

• I’ve started to put them in multiple files, that makes them easier to edit and it works better with version control. I use one file for roof blocks, one for interior blocks, etc
• The scale is a bit off, the blocks are 2 meters in size, but I think it would work better if they were scaled to 4 meters. Just keep in mind that you might need to scale them up at some point if you want to put regular sized humans into the map. And I think the railings are too tall relatively, so they might need to be scaled down.
• You can add your own blocks and set up data for them, this requires no code. It’s totally feasible to add a new type of roof that lets light shine into interiors. Just keep in mind that there isn’t necesarily an interior block behind every wall/roof, so I’d make variants of that new roof that can and cannot let light through. And of course you need a matching interior block that connects to the new roof.

Really looking forward to seeing progress on this, I love that you chose Solarpunk as the theme!

[GaladWarder]

☝️ Whoa, what’s that?

It looks like it’s neural.

It’s the WIP I put in the Discord from yesterday - used deepdream to transfer the style quickly then I’m overpainting on top