I’ve got a basic demo up and running now, so I’d like to share. There’s a lot of work left to do, but it’s coming along!

Demo

Web player (requires Unity Web Player)
Standalone

Major Completed Tasks

• World builder tool
• Sprite builder tool for generating sprite effects (article coming soon)
• Zone importer wizard in Unity
• Imports all assets generated by world builder into current scene
• Collision detection import from Tiled
• Actor importer
• Automatically slices sprites
• Generates mecanim animations (directional movement, attack, cast, death, etc)
• Basic lighting system
• Time of day color
• Angled shadows (needs revamp)
• Positional shadows
• Multi-direction water flow shader, custom water flow vertex painter tool
• Basic weather system (rain, snow, water ripples)
• Polygon sound source system for large objects (rivers)

Coming soon

• Waterdepth/Transparency shader for all actors
• Shadow blur
• Redone shadow system (no more ‘swinging’, better skew method)
• Consolidated collision detection (article coming soon)
• Free camera mode (zoom, pan)
• UI
• Dialog system (using Articy Draft 2)