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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

But Alan Rickman was the best Sheriff.

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 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

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.