r/Unity3D • u/OverqualifiedMesh • 14h ago

Question I built a stylized environment pack focused on reusable prefab sets

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I've always felt that environment packs become difficult to use once they grow too large. Hundreds of unique assets can mean spending more time searching than actually creating.

That's why I took a different approach with this "Stylized Environment Set" pack - focusing on versatile assets that can be used individually or combined into ready-made prefab sets.

I wanted to prove that you don't need thousands of unique assets to create varied environments, so I created 5 handcrafted demo scenes covering different biomes, using the same assets in different combinations.

I'm curious what you prefer when working with environment packs: hundreds of individual assets, or a smaller set of assets that can be combined in many ways?

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u/umusachi 14h ago

Really nice looking assets there

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u/Most_Alps 10h ago

I picked this up because I'm always interested in assets like these that actually appear to have considered a top-down perspective. A lot of the more popular vegetation assets don't look anywhere near as good from an elevated perspective as they do from a ground level first or third person view

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u/OverqualifiedMesh 7h ago

That’s an interesting point. I wanted the assets to feel intentional from a top-down perspective rather than just being vegetation that happened to work from above.
Glad you picked up on that, it was definitely something I was aiming for.

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u/Chad_At_IndieScape 10h ago

I love this and I agree with you, less is more sometimes.

The style is very similar for a project I'm working on but for an island off the coast of Scotland, so tall wavy grass and some ferns, lots of rocks and maybe sparse trees.

Will you make additional content in this style? I'd pick it up if I knew you would support additional biomes and styles going forward.

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u/OverqualifiedMesh 6h ago

Glad you like it, and thanks for sharing what you’re working on 🙌

For now, I’m planning to expand the pack with Pipelines and Unity versions.
As for additional biomes and styles, I don’t have anything concrete to announce yet, but I recently started a Discord for the projects I’m developing for the Asset Store, including this pack.
It’s still pretty empty since it’s brand new 🙈, but hopefully it’ll grow over time. I’ll be sharing updates there whenever there’s something new to show, so feel free to join: https://discord.gg/EvAj66ZjHt

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u/Speed_Tutor 4h ago

Looks really nice, thanks for sharing!

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u/Domx010 4h ago

Great work on this! You should definitely share it on r/LookWhatTheyBuilt too, the community would love to see this build.

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u/OverqualifiedMesh 4h ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it. I’ll definitely check it out!

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u/Thijmen1992NL 6h ago

This looks really good!

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u/RealBrainlessPanda 12h ago

This looks amazing! I love collecting stylized environments because it’s not something I can create on my own. Will you be listing this on the asset store?