Unity game level for the mobile shooter Medal Hunter: modern Dubai under attack

Medal Hunter is played from a fixed position, so the level is built around what the camera sees from the firing point: a center view straight down the square and two side views to the left and right. Everything outside those three angles stays as light as possible. The square carries an airfield with a hangar, a radar and a watch tower, and the foreground is filled with sandbags, crates and small props that sit right in front of the player.

The scene works at dusk, with a new skybox, smoke columns over burning towers and blinking advertising boards on the facades. Three buildings also got destroyed versions, so the city shows damage instead of a clean postcard skyline.

The skyline is split by distance. The far horizon is a row of flat billboards, closer in stand six to seven 3D skyscrapers that act as obstacles, and the area near the player is fully modeled. Four hero buildings were made from scratch and re-instanced with variations to fill the block, which keeps the draw calls and the texture budget under control on phones.

The billboard skyline is closer to game background art than to modeling: it has to read as a dense city from one camera position and hold up under changing light. Low-poly towers got reworked textures in a separate pass, because at mobile resolution the facade pattern does most of the work.

Lighting is fully baked with the Bakery lightmapper, which keeps the evening mood with no runtime cost: the result ships as ordinary lightmap textures that open in Unity without the plugin. Materials use base color and normal maps at 2K where possible on the engine's lit shaders, and the scene follows the client's folder structure, naming and hierarchy so the level can be dropped into the build as is.

Before handover we went through the client's delivery checklist: a clean final bake, unused assets removed, prefabs and textures named by the template and the scene hierarchy matched node by node. That way the producer could open the level, play it from the firing point and pass it to the team the same day.

The wireframe and lightmap views in the gallery show how the density is spread: detail sits where the player looks, and everything else is kept simple.