Unity3d - Minecraft

Greetings,

I am currently working on making “Unity3d Version Of Minecraft”, atleast, the game is build around the functions in Minecraft.

I have been able to do alot, more then I thougth whitout any help, but there is a few things I can’t seem to work my way around, and I would be very happy if someone could atleast help me whit some of the issues I have been getting so far in the development!

(NB; My questions rely on that you have played Minecraft)

  • When you damage blocks in Minecraft, a texture is slowly appearing over the main texture of the objects, to help you know how much its left to damage before its broken!
    This, is something I cant seem to work my way around in Unity3d.

I have already made an method for damage and breaking objects, and its in the same code I need to implement the texture. When the player is clicking the block, and holding it down for a certein time, it gets destroyd, and it works perfect. What I need help whit, is to add a second texture (transperant) to the main texture when this is happening! I have 4 textures that I need to be placed over the main texture, over time, but the only thing I can seem to get to work, is to change the main texture, but I still need that to be there!

Is there someone, who have any ideas? Or, know how to do this?

Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
M!

“When you damage blocks in Minecraft, a texture is slowly appearing over the main texture of the objects, to help you know how much its left to damage before its broken! This, is something I cant seem to work my way around in Unity3d.”

The Transparent Cutout shaders might be helpful here. They have a slider that can change at what point a texture’s transparency goes from opaque to transparent. You can make good gradual cracked effects with this technique.

theres a blended sky script that you caqn probably mess around with to blend a texture like you say search for it

The easiest way is to display another block / cube that is slightly larger than the actual block and display your animated “cracking” texture on this cube with a transparent / cutout shader.

Btw, have you seen the Minecraft starter package? Because most people who try to do a minecraft clone start by using seperate cubes and end up with a framerate of 2 fps for 10x10x10 cubes (1000). As seperate objects each object has it’s own drawcall. Minecraft has overall something like 250 drawcalls (including gui and mobs). You have to chunk your terrain.