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Asset review v.2 (see end for v.1)

Now that I’ve decided on Unity’s category system I’m going to profile the categories with the aim of choosing two assets from each “leaf”. Before I begin, let me look at the availability in the categories, though, and any issues around being forced to buy assets that just won’t work together. So, observations…

Hmmm, in short I think this is going to be fine, so let’s start some reviews and choosings.

3D

The horror. The overall category has 6019 in it, of which 5734 are covered by subcateogories. Meaning there are an elusive 285 elements in there that aren’t represented in any subcategory and that I therefore have never seen. They’re going to almost all be miscategorizations, but to be true to this new methodology (unless I just go with dendrites) I need to pick two of the 285 that are ideally sort of “just 3D” and nothing else. FUCK.

Honestly if I can just find two usable things I may cave because this seems like a fucking nightmare.

Okay I could be happy with Cells and Roadside signs for sure. Both pretty fun and weird. Yeah okay that’s nice I think. Done.

3D > Animations

3D > Characters

I’m kind of sold on the prisoner option.

3D > Characters > Animals

I think the two packs here are pretty fine

3D > Characters > Animals > Birds

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fanimals%2Fbirds&price=4-4&orderBy=1

I’m leaning cartoon owl and seagull.

3D > Characters > Animals > Fish

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fanimals%2Ffish&price=4-4&orderBy=1

So leaning toward the pack and then one of the realistic fish… something about the Suko stuff is appealing… a craftsperson of fish…

3D > Characters > Animals > Insects

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fanimals%2Finsects&price=4-4&orderBy=1

There are only 6!

Pending Egypt I guess the two I cite there are my favs…

3D > Characters > Animals > Mammals

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fanimals%2Fmammals&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Massive category.

Huh - the selection here is actually a bit small because it’s so dominated by OMABU… this may be the section I take an OMABU for that reason? So probably an OMABU and the Cu Puppies…

3D > Characters > Animals > Reptiles

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fanimals%2Freptiles&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Possible getting two dinosaurs is a way to go, compare the T-Rexes? Alternatively a big and small, with the tree frog and one of the dinos. The raptors are nice too. Some good range of choices available.

3D > Characters > Creatures

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fcreatures&price=4-4&orderBy=1

No subcategories for this one, just 259 sweet, sweet creatures. Of which I guess I’m just picking two. I suddenly wonder whether I could pick representative samples instead, but that’s just getting confusing.

So I guess I’d lean toward Maksim’s dancing cabaret and the Norse Mythological creatures for the scale?

3D > Characters > Humanoids

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fhumanoids&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Some good choices in here… probably casually dressed man and the FPS hands? Or the hair? Hmm.`

3D > Characters > Humanoids > Fantasy

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fhumanoids%2Ffantasy&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Feels kind of similar to the previous set… they were pretty humanoid, but whatever?

So yes to the voxels and then unsure on a second one to be honest.

3D > Characters > Humanoids > Humans

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Fhumanoids%2Fhumans&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Leaning silver custome and the lumberjacks

3D > Characters > Humanoids > Sci-Fi

Leaning toward the scifi human and the hands here.

3D > Characters > Robots

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fcharacters%2Frobots&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Tricky. Perhaps taking a rist on the turrets and their staging as well as a Barrio (like the Brute Robot)?

3D > Environments

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Oh boy. This is a tough one because there are 950 in the category, but 637 are accounted for in the subcategories. That said, I should be able to spot novelty?

WELL SHIT. There are just far, far too many beautiful options in this collection. And an interior or a structure with an interior? Tops are

SHIT. Oh well, it’s these two

3D > Environments > Dungeons

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Fdungeons&price=4-4&orderBy=1

This is an area where I worry a touch about things that are too big? But hopefully not?

This will be hard to choose. I think two dungeons/spaces is the way to go but now I wonder about space in a broader sense actually. I wonder if I can expand my desert?

3D> Environments > Fantasy

Hmmm there’s some good stuff here really. Leaning to Fantasy Ruins Pack and Medieval Forge I think.

3D > Environments > Historic

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Fhistoric&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Quite a lot of options here, tough competition. The Pyramid, the Wharf, the Western City, the Desert Ruins

3D > Environments > Industrial

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Findustrial&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Some great options in here. Station v1 for sure. Trailer is neat and so is the church and the warehouse… good options here. Hermetic door too. Hmm.

3D > Environments > Landscapes

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Flandscapes&price=4-4&orderBy=1

This is maybe where I run into trouble if they’re all/mostly terrains? There can only be one?

Campsite I think? That or some rocks.

3D > Environments > Roadways

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Froadways&price=4-4&orderBy=1

Maybe it’s those two?

3D > Environments > Sci-Fi

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Fsci-fi&price=4-4&orderBy=1

There’s a lot to like here… perhaps the crashed ships and one of the corridors? or the moon base?

3D > Environments > Urban

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fenvironments%2Furban&price=4-4&orderBy=1

In the end I don’t think I can go past the Cartoon Town and the Mogadishu Lighthouse

3D > Props

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Here we go try to find those needles.

That was exhausting, shit. I think I like

Touch to choose among those though, hmm. Maybe drop the door since we have other doors. Maybe bitcoin isn’t THAT funny? or is it? I dunno. Maybe fuck bitcoin? So

3D > Props > Clothing

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fclothing&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Okay well perhaps that’s it then…

3D > Props > Clothing > Accessories

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fclothing%2Faccessories&price=4-4&orderBy=1

I’m leaning rings and bandanas, but I kind of want the storytelling power of hats…

3D > Props > Clothing > Armor

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fclothing%2Farmor&price=4-4&orderBy=1

By the way there’s a small problem with the curatorial strategy of the categories which is all the higher level categories can have things in them that AREN’T in a sub category.

In this case most obviously “Clothing” has a lot more in it than the things represented in Accessories and Armor. It’d be slightly harder to do, but I could also include pieces from categories higher up.

The problem being where does that end? Taken to the extreme it would mean… 44 categories to cover (ever individual category and subcategory), which would be 88 assets (if I were doing two per category still like Noah’s ark which I do like) which would cost… US$439 or CAD$540. Which… well it’s fine, it’s not THAT much money but it’s more than I was planning on? But also who fucking cares? But also can I FIT 88 things? Probably right? Or I can make it work right?

Yeah okay I’m sold. Well I’ll go an backfill the things that need back filling then I suppose. Don’t want to miss genius or otherwise fascinating objects/environments just because the person who made them didn’t chuck them in the right place. Though it’ll be really hard to find things sometimes that AREN’T in a sub category? There’s no negation option that I know of.

3D > Props > Electronics

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Felectronics&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Hmmm this is a tough one huh.

I think a fridge is pretty neat, and then also a computer?

3D > Props > Exterior

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fexterior&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Gosh there’s some great ones in here though…

Leaning to sunbeds and fencing I think. (Could drop sunbeds and pick something up in furniture though?)

3D > Props > Food

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Ffood&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

HMM this is quite hard a gain. I’m leaning Vienna Rolls (for the real world referent) and the Fast Food for a set of foods? Or the still life fruit bowl actually.

3D > Props > Furniture

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Ffurniture&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Leaning picnic table and art?

3D > Props > Guns

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fguns&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Hmmm, surprisingly difficult there actually. I kind of find guns sufficiently uninteresting that I’m not sure how to care or choose. perhaps these two are fine.

3D > Props > Industrial

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Findustrial&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Some beautiful things here. Leaning airducts and shopping cart.

3D > Props > Interior

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Finterior&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Hmmm, kind of a lot of good stuff but also kind of same-y… perhaps

Heaters and Binders?

3D > Props > Tools

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Ftools&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Some great, great stuff here. hard not to take crowbar, and then it’s between ladders and the wheelbarrows

3D > Props > Weapons

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fprops%2Fweapons&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

HMM. leaning Machete arm + either bombs or the rack…

3D > Vegetation > Flowers

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvegetation%2Fflowers&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

I guess these are as good as any? Struggling to give a shit on this one, though flowers in the desert has obvious comedy value.

3D > Vegetation > Plants

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvegetation%2Fplants&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

I mean… shrug… any of them are fine…

3D > Vegetation > Trees

I’d go dead trees and horror trees I think

3D > Vegetation

Hmmm… these are hard to the extent I’d like to avoid things that are obvious categorizable in sub cats… but I guess that’s hard to avoid.

I’d go Pot Plants and Grass maybe?

3D > Vehicles

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvehicles&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Actually a touch tricky… maybe hubble and cotton candy? Or take the autorickshaws for historical significance in my life?

3D > Vehicles > Air

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvehicles%2Fair&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Guess I’d lean Airliner and the low poly little? Disappointed there aren’t more really big planes.

3D > Vehicles > Land

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvehicles%2Fland&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Hmmm, that’s a tough one actually. The fancy car is quite beautiful, and then take the city buses? Rusted out car? Yeah I suppose those two. No buses. Shame though.

3D > Vehicles > Sea

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvehicles%2Fsea&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

I guess those two are fine?

3D > Vehicles > Space

https://assetstore.unity.com/?category=3d%2Fvehicles%2Fspace&price=4-4&orderBy=1&rows=96

Tempted by the last two I guess?