Yesterday I was thinking about how to make a fun game about being a caterpillar, and came to the conclusion that the make or break would be in the trees. Toward that end I wrote an L-system tree generator in Unity3D. I’ve exposed a couple of variables so you can click on ‘em to change the rules that are being consulted to generate the tree. Give it a try!
Technical details
If you want the source code for this, you can grab it here.
In the process of making this experiment, I discovered a couple things: Establishing the parental hierarchy for objects in Unity3D by using <childNode>.transform.parent = <parentNode>.transform requires the additional re-zeroing of the localPosition, localEulerAngles and presumably localScale in order to take effect. The assignment of the transform’s parent also updates the local values to preserve the current world-space orientation and scale of the transform. I can see the argument for running things this way, but it wasn’t what I expected so it tripped me up for a while.
