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vhAssets is a collection of 3 redistributable Unity3D Engine package files named vhAssetsPackage, vhAssetsPackageOSX, and vhAssetsTestScenePackage.unityPackage.The vhAssetsPackage and vhAssetsPackageOSX are redistributable Unity3D Engine package files that contain functionality for allowing SmartBody and VHMsg to work from within the Unity3D engine on windows and mac platforms, respectively. The vhAssetsTestScenePackage provides a sample Unity package files:
- vhAssetsTestScenePackage - sample scene that shows how to setup a SmartBody driven character in Unity
- . Requires one of the platform packages below.
- vhAssetsPackage - Windows platform specific package
- vhAssetsPackageOSX - Mac OS X platform specific package
- vhAssetsPackageIOS - Apple iOS platform specific package
- vhAssetsPackageAndroid - Android platform specific package
The Toolkit uses Unity as it's primary rendering engine. It can run in Unity Free or Unity Pro. For Unity Free, we interface with SmartBody using 'bonebus mode'. For Unity Pro, we access SmartBody directly using a .dll.
Some additional functionality Functionality that the vhAssetsPackage /vhAssetsPackageOSX contains is:
An extension of MonoBehaviour that allows order-dependent initialization and updatesprovides:
- SmartBody interface
- VHMsg VHMSG interface
- VHCL Audio interface
- Asset Post-processors Processors that ease pipeline integration
- Resolution independent UI classes
- Interactive Debug Panel
- Customizable Free Mouse Look
- Ini .ini file configuration
- Loading Screen
- Performance time demo tests
- File Parsing
- Application setup point
- Customizable build process
- Fps FPS and Memory Debug Info
Unity
Unity is available within ICT. The latest version is available through SVN here:
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vhAssets is distributed via the vhAssetsPackage.unitypackage, vhAssetsPackageOSX.unityPackage, and vhAssetsTestScenePackage.unityPackage. It is Unity packages. They are built regularly by our build server, so it they will always contain the latest code. It can be found, along with all of our other Unity packages here:
\\vhbuild2\VHToolkit-Builds (sort by Date)
\\roscoemini\fast\build\sbm-Builds
The source for this package is stored here at https://svn.ict.usc.edu/svn_vh/trunk/lib/vhunity
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Upgrading .unitypackage files is a little more difficult. This quote from the Unity docs explains it:
"For the cleanest possible upgrade, it should be considered to remove the old package contents first, as some scripts, effects or prefabs might have become deprecated or unneeded and Unity packages don't have a way of deleting (unneeded) files (but make sure to have a security copy of the old version available)."
The easiest way I've found is to use the approach the SVN docs recommend for vendor branch upgrades.
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