Posts tagged with 'games'.

By undefined / 2018-06-12

This is a tutorial and some general guidance information to get started with Unity. There's not a lot of hand-holding just a practical demon...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

Unity can be obtained at https://unity3d.com/unity The Personal version is perfectly capable and is free to use for non-commercial or peopl...

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GameObject These are the basic unit of object. They are almost abstract in definition and are the fundamental thing that hold all other thin...

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Moving around the Scene The mouse selects objects by default. The Left button will attempt to cycle through all the objects under the curso...

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Version Control and Unity is possible, it's just a little messy. Problem 1 Unity creates 'meta' files. It basically creates a uuid for ever...

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Run Unity. Create a new project in Unity, 'New' at the top, from the first window you are presented with once Unity has started... And you ...

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Before we do anything else, we are going to add some plugins to help making the process easier. To do this we need to open the "Asset Store"...

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Creating a 'floor' To open the ProGrids window go to Tools > Window > Progrids > ProGrids window. Turn on ProGrids Snapping. The third butt...

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There are a few things required for physics. Colliders and RigidBodies Colliders define the collision shape of an object. It is these that ...

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Let's make another 'floor' object… Select the existing one, the floor in the Hierarchy 'Duplicate' it. The quickest way is to press Ctrl+D,...

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As it stands the pusher doesn't do much Sure it stops coins on its surface, but it's not pushing anything. The physics isn't really working...

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We need more coins!!!! Time to do some Custom Scripting!!!! We want to be able to add some coins, automatically, to the scene. Let's make a...

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Back to the script. What do we want it to do? Every X seconds, create a new instance of the ObjectToSpawn and add it to the scene at some a...

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There are still a few problems with it running too fast. To slow it down a little more, instead of editing the animation directly, let's cha...

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Coins will start to pile up on top of the pusher now. It's a consequence of the coins falling from where they are, the speed of the pusher, ...

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It might be nice to make these things look better now? Objects in Unity are assigned Materials which define how they look. These in-turn hav...

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So far the coins have been spawning randomly. I guess at some point we want some user control and make a bit of a game out of it? I think we...

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So I guess first thing? Instead of dropping every second… how about when the user presses a key? Unity abstracts input into an object called...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

The next thing to do is move the Spawner back and forth under the control of the user again. There were more axes in the Input, in this case...

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At present, all the coins at just falling into infinity. It'd be nice if they were captured and deleted. As a precursor to creating a game, ...

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There will be a minor problem that may be obvious with the current game though? Coins can fall off the side. Shall we add some edges to the...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

This is a coin pusher… shall we start scoring? Or recording how you've profited? First we need to put on screen your current cash. In the H...

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So we can display a score now… how about updating it….? First off… where is the score held? Let's think about how the score works. The sco...

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We have the GameController ready to do things. However, nothing is telling it what to do. We need to inform it when things happen. What are...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

So. We have a basic game now. However it needs some refining. For instance... You get all the coins you add. It pushes everything to the ...

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So it's starting to play more like a real coin pusher. It's harder to get all your money back immediately now. Still. There's a couple of th...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

Now the fun thing… There are no coins on the game at the start! We need to spawn a load of coins at the beginning of the game. I'm going t...

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I'm going to make a number of changes now to make the game a lot more realistic. First… the way it drops coins. It's not realistic Just dr...

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Coins jamming… So, at present the user can just spam the coins button. And the coins jam up. This isn't very realistic. The Spawner should...

By undefined / 2018-06-12

I'm going to skim over the changes I've added. By now it should be apparent how things are done... These are slow progressive changes that ar...