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Thank you, really apreciate that - it does look so much better doesnt it - nice download area now!

Forum looks great now. Thanks Steve.

Remove those script as they are for unity 5-4 and earlier untiy 2018 no more use this

Hi, is there a water well on one of the packages? Thanks.

Steve is definitely still active, I talk to him nearly three times a week because of the exclusive work I've given him. Obviously because my own work is injecting funds into Arteria, this gives Steve a lot of breathing room and time to work on his Arteria line as well as my own work. So don't worry, Steve isn't going anywhere

OBF will be released Monday evening!

Hi there, Steampunk environments would be cool, there is not a lot on old Victorian steampunk environments and i think you could fill a gap in the market there, i added just a couple of google pics as reference to the awesome potential you could have with it. Although these pics are probably the copy right of someone else it shows that some really big noisy city environments would be possible. Paul

I would LOVE to see Victorian steampunk environments, vehicles, characters and even whole levels. I'm currently using Leadwerks, but I also use Unity3D as well. Mike

Wow, youve got my interest with those pics, they are very inspirational. For some time now ive wanted to do a steampunk pack. Living in the UK, Victorian Buildings are everywhere, so its easy to source ideas, and then combine the steampunk elements. Stay tuned!

A customer asked where the pack is, and i couldnt find it - it wasnt showing, so i reuploaded

Steve, Not really into this UMA stuff, but I see it might be useful in the future for me and I like to get in on the "ground floor" of your ideas and projects and like to support your work. Keep it up. David Robinson http://www.arrcomm.org

Just waiting for a few questions to be answered by the developer, so I can be 100% confident of the transition. I definatally don't want to get into any coding areas with this, as its not my area, but from what I see thus far, I don't need to. Im curious about adding the arm and leg armour elements to see if that's straight forward

Because models have to conform to a specific design style for the base characters, Not too bad for the sci fi kit - and indeed a new update will feature all the sci fi styled characters as part of the sci fi base. I am confused with the bone count, as the female uses exactly the same rig as the males - ill take a look at this later in the week. The reason the male and female are different in terms of how they are done, is because as you can imagine, its been a huge learning curve in how to do these base packs and make them so customers are happy with how they are done. The consensus originally was to have a character system that provides different mesh groups, that hide or unhide, and swap out - hence the male worked like this. Then customers wanted a system where a naked base character was visible at all times, with the mesh elements added on top - hence the female version. To be honest, making these characters is such a huge time consuming situation, that to actually get them to the point of release as we did, was incredible. Going back to your idea of you asking why all characters don't use this system - the main answer to that, is file size of exports. The male character for example take a long time to export, and very very fiddly due to its size. Adding dozens of other styles atop this character would result in an export nightmare scenario. As most customers don't have the necessary experience(from emails received) to merge singular costumes together in their game engine, its imperative that the format for the time being always remains whereby the entire character costume styles are in one file export, rather than split per costume. Also, I am looking to re-invent the base male this year, and maybe approach in a different way. All ideas welcome

After playing around with the stunner models for UMA, I find the quality of these avatars to be superior to the UMA base model. Would it be possible to make all of the packs for these avatars available here for download? Also, I downloaded the Victorian pack, but it seems like the Jane (female) version is missing from the pack. As a suggestion for the future, I would highly appreciate any earlier content to be made compatible with these avatars. Maybe a separate fundraiser to do the conversion? I would gladly pitch in to support that! 😀

They are rigged to the hand bones only I can supply them separate and will do this in an update this month Steve

Merry Christmas, Steve.

Yeah, I must admit this does sound interesting, love that picture inspiration

I really enjoy this style too and will be creating lots more. What would you like to see? I'll be adding these today to the download area

You first need to go to the Hair Recipes For Example Highlight UM_HairStyle_E_Recipe (ie show the inspector) Goto the Shared Colors section and Add Shared Color Name It Hair (You will need to expand the section to name it) Scroll down to the Overlay for the Hair Style and select the Use Shared Color. Select Hair from the dropdown list if not already selected) Run scene and highlight Female (4) (Hope we have the same scene...lol) You should now be able to play with the hair color slider and see the hair change. Hope this helps

But Alan Rickman was the best Sheriff.

Thank you, really appreciate the support - its due to the heart warming I get from members and cusomers alike, that keeps me going!

Hi Thomas, The complete levels will work the same in both Free Unity and Plus/Pro. That being said, some of the older ones were made for older versions of Unity and may require some minor adjustments once imported. I am currently in Alpha for a game built almost entirely of Arteria products using Unity Plus. Originally the game size was approaching 300 MB for mobile, which seemed like a lot for me. My solution was to lower some of the image sizes down as well as decimate some of the 3D models. I also looked at trimming the sound files down to the bare minimum as well as switching them to mono where it wouldn't make a difference. We are now looking at about 130 MB file size. My advice is to do what I did. Use Unity Free/Personal as long as you can. There is very little difference initially when development is in it's infancy. Later on, when you see a feature that is required for your project that is not in the free version, make the choice to upgrade then. Cheers!

I've gone ahead and sent $17 your way, keep up the great work.

I clicked on the donate link for the UMA Fund and unfortunately $25 is too rich for me at the moment but would like to contribute.Is there an alternate paypal address for those of us less fortunate but still wanting to contribute something ? thanks

Just donated $25 keep it up Steve

I just purchased a lifetime membership, and wanted to say hello to everyone. I have been a long time user of Unity (actually helped develop in a small way), and throughout the years have purchased quite a bit of Arteria content and love what Steve et. al. bring to game developement. Just saying hi

I like the busted walkway sitting on the ocean floor... don't care for the fish

I actually have made a new water well for the new Anglo Saxon Village Pack being released shortly. Ill post the well for you tomorrow(Thursday) so you can download early

Hi, I love your work, they are beautiful. A lot of my projects nowadays are on mobile and this means that there's very little utility on these beautiful assets. I do request that there are more mobile ready assets in the future. Thanks, Isa

what? That's definatally not the case...

Atmospheric horror, modern-ish (within the last 30 years).

Are all the products based around Unity? From what I understand the unity part would just be an option like Torque used to be.

Its not actually been released yet - it will be available Wednesday Steve

Nice job

My question on this would: What about future models? Are they going to also have this done to them? I'm interested in making this happen, but only if it continues to happen. 1 set of models and then nothing further isn't really interesting enough to me. Also, did you ever decide whether this conversion would be available to all customers of the OBM, or just those who help fund it? It's my opinion that it should just be rolled into the exist packs and available to all prior and future purchasers, even those who didn't help fund this conversion project.

Hi Steve, while I understand Your thoughts about people never using some part of Your offers (mabye Unity3D-parts, maybe 2D-parts etc), I fully agree with Daryll, a "full access" should be "full". I think, there really are full-access-customers who do not use all of Your areas, so the Non-Unity-Users should not be a serious problem. Restricting (or ecepting some areas) after(!) having promised the "full" access will perhaps create more disappointment. Regards Zoroaster

Sure, i hear what your saying. 2 weeks will work to see the interest

Hi Steve, I've been looking into this a bit more and it does look like it's going to become a kind of go-to standard for Unity and have all the Unity community behind it, so probably does make most sense for most of us to move over. What they haven't got yet is the awesome set of clothes and armours that you have for the base male, so there must surely be a good market there. I'm definitely up for backing that with the $35 membership addon

The main problem here is that not everyone uses unity - if its going to be a huge ammount of work outside of what i would regard the regular arteria workflow for one engine, a separate funding or something would need to be done. Ill take a look and see what i think

You can find the downloadable walkthrough demo on the product page here. I haven't seen a sample level in the files though.

Just a quick question. What is the best way of using this model? Should I leave all the parts intact but just disable the clothes etc I don't need? Or would it be better to delete the parts not being used e.g. BlouseA?

Figured out i had to dump the textures in the default maya texture directory

Even though most if not all of the Arteria store pages say there is a Unity package for the product, very few actually have one. The list of included file formats on the store page is simply copied and pasted to every page. FBX and DAE will import into Unity. You will most likely need to assign material to textures. I also tend to reorganize the folder structure since Steve is inconsistent on where he puts stuff from package to package. Personally, as I go to work with Arteria packages, I clean everything up, delete anything I don't need (like .x files), and then create a Unity package for that model. I put them into Models/[package name] with subfolders of Materials and Textures specifically for that model. It keeps things a little better organized.

The best would be some ad hoc agreement via private meesages. For example we need male/female unification, so we can agree, that you will do it non exclusively for us for some price. Etc...

Probably none, but i use 3 non open source packs witch provide major source code modifications to the engine , at least 2 of which would probably be a nightmare to port to the newer MIT version (or at least with my programming ability anyway) so i stick with what i know, i guess i'm screwed if i run into any showstopper bugs, but it might be easier to port single fixes backwards, i guess we will see For most people, or people starting on a new project there are some fantastic new additions and lots of improvements in the newer version, which i'll probably use in the future if i ever complete this project first

I'm sorry for the annoyance, but I still can't access the updated version (bow/horse animations and shader files) and that's pretty much putting my project on hold. Here's my situation explained with two screenshots: and If you notice in the first screenshot, the male version of the pack is correctly stated as being updated in April and it's download button does lead to the folder structure you mentionned and it does contain everything for the male pack. The female one unfortunately only keeps downloading the January version directly (as shown in image 2), which doesn't include bow or horse animations, and no shader files.

Ok thanks Steve, I have wrote to you this week, just waiting for the model to make a game for a customer... thanks

hello, i know that it's not the right place to ask that question but i wanna know how to use that site: proxy thanks to everyone