Hey Guys, So I've been using unity for a couple months and getting familiar with it . And now i wanna create a horror game something like Silent Hill.

Hey guys sorry i accidentally pressed enter . So i wanted to ask is Unity 3d right for a horror game. And also please suggest me a good 3d modelling tool and tool for creating audio for my game.

Hey guys sorry i accidentally pressed enter . So i wanted to ask is Unity 3d right for a horror game. And also please suggest me a good 3d modelling tool and tool for creating audio for my game.

Yes?

I mean, if you could give more specific details about why you think it might not be suitable, what the requirements for YOUR horror game exactly are (its a pretty broad category going from FPSes to Text adventures), people could give you more specific answers to you questions.

Generally, the answer is yes - Unity can do pretty much everything you want it to - though depending on your specific requirements there might be caveats to this answer. So better get more specific.

For 3D modelling, start with Blender. its a complete 3D Package similars to 3Ds Max or Maya, just opensourse and completly free. Yes the learning curve is steep... but its one of the best free 3D tools you will find!

For audio, you can use tools like Audiocity to cut and compose audiotracks and -effects. Of course you need to either record your own loops and effects, or get them from somewhere else. If you are looking for free resources, someone else will need to guide you.

If you are ready to spend something, on the audio side, the MAGIX Music Maker is pretty good, both for composing effects and audio tracks from loops. They even have their own store where you get tousands of loops for reasonable prices (though, if you buy all of them, the costs adds up of course).

On the 3D Modelling side I really love 3D Coat, and MoI. Both about 300 bucks per license, but pretty good for their respective areas of competence, and with intuitive interfaces (3D Coat for Sculpting (in voxels, yay!) and the high-poly to low poly retopo, MoI for NURBS modelling for hardsurface objects).

If you also want to do texturing, 3D Coat will have a awesome 3D Paint functionality (just as blender has, altough I never really used this), but you should also check out the Quixel Suite and the Substance Designer... both great tools for texturing stuff with complete materials (containing diffuse, normal and gloss channels together, not just one of them), both of them specially designed for a physically based pipeline.

I mean, if you could give more specific details about why you think it might not be suitable, what the requirements for YOUR horror game exactly are (its a pretty broad category going from FPSes to Text adventures), people could give you more specific answers to you questions.

Generally, the answer is yes - Unity can do pretty much everything you want it to - though depending on your specific requirements there might be caveats to this answer. So better get more specific.

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Woah dude!! thank you very much!! You've completely answered my question!! Actually most of the people were saying that its not suitable for a horror game. So i was getting confused. Anyways thanks again!!

[...] Actually most of the people were saying that its not suitable for a horror game. So i was getting confused. Anyways thanks again!!

Okay, did this people give you a reason WHY they think its not suitable? I know a lot of people have a strong opinion about engines without even trying them out. Most make their opinion about it because they saw game Y using engine X and think its the shizzle / shite, and come to the conclusion if the game is good / bad, the engine must be good / bad.

Just because the Crytek games look awesome does not mean their engine is awesome... graphics is 90% the quality of models, textures and shaders, and only about 10% the quality of the engines tech (the performance of most of the early Crytek games is actually horrible. Has to do with lots of highend effects for the time, but most probably also the engine that was not properly optimized. But this now is of course again me jumping to conclusions, just like the Unity naysayers were).

Just because there is no good horror game made with Unity on the market (and I have a hard time beliebving that) does not mean the engine is not suitable for it!

So rather than listen to vague, unfounded opinions, research it yourself. You can download the engine for free, and give it a try. Most probably it will just work fine for you, as soon as you start to understand how to build your game with it.

Woah dude!! thank you very much!! You've completely answered my question!! Actually most of the people were saying that its not suitable for a horror game. So i was getting confused. Anyways thanks again!!

Okay, did this people give you a reason WHY they think its not suitable? I know a lot of people have a strong opinion about engines without even trying them out. Most make their opinion about it because they saw game Y using engine X and think its the shizzle / shite, and come to the conclusion if the game is good / bad, the engine must be good / bad.

Just because the Crytek games look awesome does not mean their engine is awesome... graphics is 90% the quality of models, textures and shaders, and only about 10% the quality of the engines tech (the performance of most of the early Crytek games is actually horrible. Has to do with lots of highend effects for the time, but most probably also the engine that was not properly optimized. But this now is of course again me jumping to conclusions, just like the Unity naysayers were).

Just because there is no good horror game made with Unity on the market (and I have a hard time beliebving that) does not mean the engine is not suitable for it!

So rather than listen to vague, unfounded opinions, research it yourself. You can download the engine for free, and give it a try. Most probably it will just work fine for you, as soon as you start to understand how to build your game with it.

Thank you very much dude. I really appreciate your answer. Now i understand everything. And now i will stick with unity and will give a shot to blender to create 3d models!! . And use Audacity city to create sounds and i will use Adobe Photoshop for creating 3d textures! And one last thing that i wanna ask and that is how can i create horror, creepy music. Which software should i use?
Thanks in advance!!

I would personally use Unity3d for an horror game, you can add shadows, and change the scene to your liking.

You can record your own music on garageband to make it more realistic. You can generate AI on unity3d

which kind of makes it neat in terms of making lots of zombies follow you.

I thought Unity3D would be ideal for a horror game, but an acquaintance that is developing a game (using Unity3D, for a horror game) and which is being featured as an Early Access on Steam has recommended to be cautious. He's currently in the process of hacking an entirely custom lighting system into it because he strongly felt that the inner workings of lighting in Unity3D don't complement well the feel of a horror game.

Since I haven't tried it myself, I'm inclined to believe what he says is true, though it's hard to determine just "how bad" it is.

For everything else though, Unity3D can deliver.