Project Rover

Project Rover is a fun project where a rover collects minerals from different locations across an alien planet. Built in Unity with C# scripting, featuring intuitive controls and engaging gameplay mechanics.

🧠 Features on Graphics

• Cel-Shaded Lighting: Stylized toon rendering with full support for normal, metallic, and emissive texture maps
• PBR-Lite Surfaces: Advanced surface options including height mapping, ambient occlusion, and alpha transparency
• Outline Rendering: Customizable outlines using the reverse hull method (requires Forward rendering path)
• Lighting Support: Compatible with both real-time and baked lighting through Ambient Spherical Harmonics
• Material Customization: Intuitive per-material controls powered by LWGUI's enhanced inspector interface

🧠 Features on Gameplay Mechanics

• Realistic Movement: Physics-based rover controls with smooth, responsive animations
• Environmental Effects: Particle systems that activate based on terrain type and location
• Power Management: Dynamic battery system that drains faster when carrying heavy minerals or moving across difficult terrain
• Mineral Variety: Different mineral types with unique characteristics affecting rover speed, battery consumption, and handling
• Resource System: Collect minerals from deposits and discharge them at designated drop-off points

🧩 Technologies Used

📜 About the Project

This Unity project features a stylized rover scene designed to experiment with cel shading techniques and explore the rendering limits of Unity's Built-in Render Pipeline (BiRP). It uses the Stylized Cel Shader (SCS) by Symmasolan, a PBR-lite shader that supports toon-like shading with outline effects and real-time lighting support.

👥 Contributors

• 🎨 Parven , Joywin - Art & Design
• 💻 Mohamed Musthafa - Lead Programmer

🎮 Availability

Available as an open-source project on GitHub for developers and Unity enthusiasts.