Demo

This document describes the included Hardline Demo Scene, what it demonstrates, and how its supporting runtime components work.

The demo exists to show how Summon Style: Hardline is used in a real scene, driven by runtime logic rather than editor-only configuration.

Demo Scene

Open:

Assets/SmnStyleHardline/Demo/Scenes/Demo_Island01

This scene contains a small stylized island environment with:

  • Terrain, cliffs, foliage, and props
  • Water, skybox, clouds, and particles
  • Animated characters and ambient wildlife
  • A time-of-day driven style and environment system
  • Style preset swapper.

Everything in the scene is rendered using Hardline shaders and controlled by a single SSHStyleManager.

What The Demo Demonstrates

The demo illustrates:

  • How one style system controls all scene visuals
  • How style presets can be blended at runtime
  • How sky, shadows, ambient light, and outlines are synchronized
  • How gameplay systems interact with Hardline through its API

The day/night cycle blends between four SSHStyleAsset presets:

  • Sunrise
  • Day
  • Sunset
  • Night

These presets are blended and applied through the Hardline API.

There is also a preset swapper mode that demonstrates simple preset swapping.

Using The Demo

When the scene is running:

Time of Day

At the top of the screen is a time slider.

  • Dragging the slider changes the current time
  • The play button animates the cycle

You will see:

  • Shadow color and strength update
  • Ambient environment light change
  • Skybox gradients and stars shift
  • Outline settings update

These changes are driven by style preset blending.

Style Preset Swapping

If you click on the triple dot toggle left of the day/night panel, you can switch to a preset swapping mode.

In this mode:

  • The day/night cycle is replaced with next/previous buttons for switching presets.
  • A preset label shows the current preset.

Camera

The demo camera supports two modes.

Freecam

  • Right Mouse + Mouse: Look
  • WASD / QE: Move
  • Scroll Wheel: Adjust movement speed

This mode allows free exploration.

Cinematic

The camera moves between preset transforms placed around the scene.

Use:

  • A / D or the UI arrows to step between shots

This mode is intended for evaluating composition and silhouette.

UI

Press F4 to toggle the demo UI.

The UI provides:

  • Time of day playback
  • Manual time scrubbing
  • Camera mode switching
  • Shot navigation
  • Control hints

The UI is implemented with Unity UI Toolkit and communicates with the demo scripts.

Demo Runtime Components

The demo scene is driven by a small set of runtime-only components.
These are not part of the Hardline core system.

SSHDemoDayNightManager

This component demonstrates how to:

  • Blend multiple SSHStyleAsset presets
  • Evaluate a normalized time-of-day value
  • Apply the resulting values to Hardline through SSHStyleManager.API

It holds four presets:

  • Sunrise
  • Day
  • Sunset
  • Night

A single normalized cycleValue controls which presets are blended.
The script linearly interpolates values and pushes them into:

  • Environment
  • Skybox
  • Outline

using the Hardline API.

This script serves as a reference for integrating:

  • Time of day systems
  • Weather systems
  • Mood or biome transitions

SSHDemoStyleSwitcher

This component demonstrates simple preset swapping.

  • It holds an array of SSHStyleAsset presets and an index for the current preset.
  • It applies the current preset to the SSHStyleManager when changed.

SSHDemoCamera

Provides two camera modes:

  • Free-fly camera for scene inspection
  • Cinematic camera that interpolates between preset transforms

Cinematic camera targets are simple scene objects used as shot markers.

SSHDemoUI

Handles the demo interface.

It:

  • Connects UI Toolkit elements to the demo systems
  • Toggles camera modes
  • Controls time-of-day playback and scrubbing
  • Updates icons and information text
  • Shows or hides UI panels

SSHDemoAnimatorManager

Manages animated characters and props in the demo.

It:

  • Starts a configured animation
  • Disables the Animator at distance
  • Disables SkinnedMeshRenderers at farther distances
  • Supports attaching props to animated bones

This reduces runtime cost while keeping characters animated when nearby.

SSHDemoCheapBoid

Controls simple ambient motion for background entities.

It:

  • Simulates a group of transforms inside a bounded volume
  • Uses deterministic noise for stable movement
  • Keeps motion planar and stylized

Used for birds, fish, and other ambient motion.

Demo Assets

The demo uses:

  • Sample materials
  • Sample meshes and prefabs
  • UI sprites for controls and indicators

These assets exist to demonstrate shader usage, lighting response, and composition.
They are not intended to be production-ready content.

Summary

The demo shows how:

  • One SSHStyleManager controls the scene style
  • Style presets are blended and applied at runtime
  • Gameplay-style scripts drive visual changes

SSHDemoDayNightManager and SSHDemoStyleSwitcher are the primary references for applying dynamic style control through the Hardline API.