Tessellation Map

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Hello everyone,

Few days ago i had a nice idea. What about a 3D Minimap realized with tessellation.

The concept of this project is the creation of a top down camera that moves with the player and 3 SceneCaptures2D attached to that camera:

  1. One for the Color
  2. One for the Depth
  3. One for Custom Depth

All these SceneCaptures are changed by their own PostProcess Materials, so:

  1. The SceneCapture “Color” only shows Base Color Values
  2. The “Depth” is changed to a Displacement Map generated per tick :smiley:
  3. The same with Custom Depth, but in this project it exists but is not used in the main material

The MAIN Material gets all 3 textures samples and uses them to created a tesselation material.
This material is the 3D Map and is used on a simple plane.
This plane is always in front of the player (with a little bit of rotation adjustments :D)

So, i thought, this could be a nice project for the marketplace, but - unfortunately - it looks not so good as expected.
Because of that i decided to give you this project for free.

If you are more experienced in making materials and tessellation than i am, please proceed with developing to make this project looking good.

Download:

TessellationMap.part1.rar (45MB)
TessellationMap.part2.rar (40MB)

Video: http://youtu.be/z4A8BYaQqVg

Have a nice day

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That’s a very clever solution, really cool effect for a map.

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thank you:)

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Thanks for providing this example, I definitely plan on using what I learned from picking it apart in an upcoming project.

To give back a little bit, here’s a slightly updated version I put together: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7662877/TessellationMap.zip

I managed to fix the bug where the object would sometimes go invisible in places. Turns out it was because you were rendering it as a translucent material, and it was having some sorting problems. I switched the material to opaque, and to get around the camera spotting it for an infinite loop I made it so only the object owner can see it. Just as personal preference, I also made it so the camera changes height based on where the player is, but that’s easily undone if you don’t like it that way.

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This might be useful to any project. I like it and thanks so much for sharing it