Been working on some terrains. Getting up feet wet. Little green pickle enjoying some water under a starry night.
And here is how the work looks like on Unity.
That's it for today since it's getting late and stuff.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Dev Post #2
Quick update.
Been working on some terrains. Getting up feet wet. Little green pickle enjoying some water under a starry night.
And here is how the work looks like on Unity.
That's it for today since it's getting late and stuff.
Been working on some terrains. Getting up feet wet. Little green pickle enjoying some water under a starry night.
And here is how the work looks like on Unity.
That's it for today since it's getting late and stuff.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Dev Post #1
Little update on the stuff I have been working on.
I got a reply on my directional camera question on the Unity forums. The individuals reply was precise but didn't give a code example with it. I think the poster wanted me to tackle it head on instead of just having me copy/paste whatever they posted for me. Although I appreciate that, his reply I didn't clearly understand so I left it be (for now, heh).
What I did instead the last couple night was research a bit on hexagonal grid placement (think hexagon checkers...) and how to interact with them. I did succeed in creating a grid on a plane, but the interaction is something I'll need to work with.
Tonight I decided to tackle the directional camera problem head on. I was determined. About an hour and a half on struggling through errors after errors, I finally got a completed script that didn't yell at me when I saved it. I tested it... but the results were not what I was looking for. Whenever I hit a key to change the directional camera, the camera went into a spastic loop between 2 coordinates until it locked up and crashed... So, posted new script on my previous question on the Unity forums and hopefully some more educated fellows might be able to help me out. I'll keep you posted.
Until next time,
-Keeves out-
I got a reply on my directional camera question on the Unity forums. The individuals reply was precise but didn't give a code example with it. I think the poster wanted me to tackle it head on instead of just having me copy/paste whatever they posted for me. Although I appreciate that, his reply I didn't clearly understand so I left it be (for now, heh).
What I did instead the last couple night was research a bit on hexagonal grid placement (think hexagon checkers...) and how to interact with them. I did succeed in creating a grid on a plane, but the interaction is something I'll need to work with.
Tonight I decided to tackle the directional camera problem head on. I was determined. About an hour and a half on struggling through errors after errors, I finally got a completed script that didn't yell at me when I saved it. I tested it... but the results were not what I was looking for. Whenever I hit a key to change the directional camera, the camera went into a spastic loop between 2 coordinates until it locked up and crashed... So, posted new script on my previous question on the Unity forums and hopefully some more educated fellows might be able to help me out. I'll keep you posted.
Until next time,
-Keeves out-
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Introduction
Well... Everything has to start somewhere, I guess. I might as well start here.
It's a first of many steps, getting my ass in gear to post on a blog so that others can watch my progress and kick me in the ass if I really start to slack off. Not going to lie, I am a terrible procrastinator. It's not that I don't want to do things, hell, I have plans up the whazoo to do lots of things and I also have the greatest intentions of doing each and every one of them. The problem with me is that when I encounter an obstacle I have the bad habit of convincing myself I'm not cut out to finish what I started and instead of trying and failing in the long run, I might as well skip all the time and effort and dive straight into the disappointment. Therefore this blog is, at least I hope, a failsafe to stop me from doing that. So, that disclaimer aside, on to the nitty-gritty.
I plan on making a video game. I've been planning on creating one for a long time but it seems like life is on a pretty good track and things are stable and secure enough to allow me to dabble. The video game industry seems to be at a perfect place for me to attempt to try right now. There are a plethora of cheap or free resources at my disposal to learn with, so I figure I might as well take advantage of them. I'll be using tools like Unity (a game engine), Blender (a modelling program), Gimp (for artsy fartsy stuff), and Blogger here to share it all with you.
I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how I wanted the game to look and feel. I'm drawn to the feel from Final Fantasy Tactics, an old PS game that I played countless hours on in my teens. So I hopped on Unity and made a few objects. I made the ground (green), dirt below it (brown spackle gross thing) and made a square ugly cube (the player). Looks goofy I know, but it's a good place to start.
So scripting around a bit and with the help of tutorials on the internets I got the cube to move around and I got the camera to follow. I can also pitch the cube off the edge of the ground to its death which brought me a couple giggles and a few, "Hey! Bizz! Look at 'dis! .... Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!". I don't think Bizz was as excited as I was but that no biggy, I had fun.
So after some dinking around I wanted to be able to move the camera so that it's no longer following, but if I were to press a button (say "Q"), it would move the camera 90 degrees to the left and view the cube and follow it from that angle. Well... After hours and hours of scouring the internets for its wisdom I wasn't able to find anything. I'm sure in a few months I'll look back at this and be like, "Durr... It was sooo simple...", but at this moment it's all Greek to me, man!
So I tossed the question up in the Unity forums asking for some C# web wizard to shed some light. Hopefully soon I'll be able to share my findings, but until then that's all for today. Thanks! And until next time,
-Keeves out-
It's a first of many steps, getting my ass in gear to post on a blog so that others can watch my progress and kick me in the ass if I really start to slack off. Not going to lie, I am a terrible procrastinator. It's not that I don't want to do things, hell, I have plans up the whazoo to do lots of things and I also have the greatest intentions of doing each and every one of them. The problem with me is that when I encounter an obstacle I have the bad habit of convincing myself I'm not cut out to finish what I started and instead of trying and failing in the long run, I might as well skip all the time and effort and dive straight into the disappointment. Therefore this blog is, at least I hope, a failsafe to stop me from doing that. So, that disclaimer aside, on to the nitty-gritty.
I plan on making a video game. I've been planning on creating one for a long time but it seems like life is on a pretty good track and things are stable and secure enough to allow me to dabble. The video game industry seems to be at a perfect place for me to attempt to try right now. There are a plethora of cheap or free resources at my disposal to learn with, so I figure I might as well take advantage of them. I'll be using tools like Unity (a game engine), Blender (a modelling program), Gimp (for artsy fartsy stuff), and Blogger here to share it all with you.
I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about how I wanted the game to look and feel. I'm drawn to the feel from Final Fantasy Tactics, an old PS game that I played countless hours on in my teens. So I hopped on Unity and made a few objects. I made the ground (green), dirt below it (brown spackle gross thing) and made a square ugly cube (the player). Looks goofy I know, but it's a good place to start.
So scripting around a bit and with the help of tutorials on the internets I got the cube to move around and I got the camera to follow. I can also pitch the cube off the edge of the ground to its death which brought me a couple giggles and a few, "Hey! Bizz! Look at 'dis! .... Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!". I don't think Bizz was as excited as I was but that no biggy, I had fun.
So after some dinking around I wanted to be able to move the camera so that it's no longer following, but if I were to press a button (say "Q"), it would move the camera 90 degrees to the left and view the cube and follow it from that angle. Well... After hours and hours of scouring the internets for its wisdom I wasn't able to find anything. I'm sure in a few months I'll look back at this and be like, "Durr... It was sooo simple...", but at this moment it's all Greek to me, man!
So I tossed the question up in the Unity forums asking for some C# web wizard to shed some light. Hopefully soon I'll be able to share my findings, but until then that's all for today. Thanks! And until next time,
-Keeves out-
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