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Easiest free way to fracture mesh?
I want to fracture a mesh AND split the uv's so that i could use a unique texture that doesn't switch uv's after a fracture. I don't have $60 to buy an expensive addon and I don't think I have the experience to program this. What are my best options?
I think it is pretty clear that your options are to either buy the add on or learn to program the feature yourself. As it is, I'm not sure what you mean when you talk about how you expect the uvs and textures to behave, but there are definitely tutorials out there that talk about how to split a mesh
I don't understand the switching uv part.
Seach for "triangle explosion".
I was really vague with the uv's so I'll explain myself better
I'm using Fracture Lite from the asset store right here: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/7193
And when I fracture a textured cube it goes from this: http://i.imgur.com/x$$anonymous$$Dttr0.png
To this: http://i.imgur.com/3C1rDlP.png
I think it's clear that there is no simple free solution but this is an explanation of what I meant with the uvs
Well I think you will have to learn to program this, but as Habitablaba commented, there are plenty of tutorials for that - a lot of them free. I'm afraid its pretty impossible to successfully make a game without a decent amount of code.
That being said, I think the best way for you to do this would be to have your regular mesh and a "fractured" one as a separate model. Set a trigger to switch out the meshes upon impact (I'm assuming the mesh you want to fracture is something the player can destroy. Unfortunately basically any time you have something interacting with a player, you'll have to set up that logic).
You can do this with more than one model if you wish - think of a racing game, every time you bump something with the car, the base mesh is switched for increasingly damaged ones. You can use the same texture if you want, or variations of it painted to show more damage - burn marks, scrapes, whatever.
