I spent a majority of this week focusing on adding flavor to the game. Tweaking lighting, creating interactive objects, and most of all, designing a third person character, as well as scripts to interact with the person.
I followed the Unity 3D plat-former tutorial almost word-for-word. I can honestly say I've read almost all 122 pages of the PDF.
I had almost no trouble getting the applications found within the PDF to work, however, getting everything to work in my scene was a completely different story, and many headaches worth of work to troubleshoot.
I was able to do things I didn't expect to add, I couldn't do certain things I wanted to do, and certain aspects still feel unfinished. However, overall, I'm happy with the results.
What I was successful of creating:
-Creating a Third Person character from scratch
-Created a custom character
-Created custom character interactions (Wall jumping, Punching)
-Created a custom mouse control system
-Created a HUD
-Created a system that represents current HP on display.
-Created a system that represents current Fuel cells.
-Created a system displaying remaining lives.
-Created Enemy AI
-Created a script to interact with the player
-Created enemy AI animations to occur under specific circumstances
-Created enemy to have specified HP functions.
-Created ability to follow target.
-Created Particles
-Created a particle prefab hiearchy system .
-Created particles to respond under certain conditions.
-Created Movers
-Scripted an object to move at a set value infinitely.
-Created GUIskin
-Created a system to show start menu and game over.
-Created Terrain
-Created multiple layers of textures within a Terrain.
Here's a few things I feel I've comfortably mastered in this short amount of time:
-Prefabs
-Collision
-Hierarchy systems
-Adjusting values in-game to tweak optimization values.
-Recognizing scripts
-Coding script input channels
-Troubleshooting coding script errors.
-knowledge of Int, Bool, True/False systems
-Particles
-Terrain editor
-Object Animation creations
-Creating custom first and third person controllers
-Using the GUI Skin system.
Here's a few things I attempted but was not successful at creating:
-Projectiles
-Respawn catcher
-Keybindings
-Camera Collider
-Recreating enemy AI
-Opacity maps :(
-destructable objects (without model swapping)
Lastly, what would a good blog post be without some screenshots
This is a screenshot of some of the scripts I used.
Lastly, here's what gave me the biggest hang-up in the entire project. Somewhere in here, there's something wrong that won't allow the AI to function properly, Also I had to re-create all the animations off the take001 animation:
My last words on this project, I'll absolutely continue working on this project, probably sooner than others. At first I didn't approve of using Unity for the second half of the quarter, but I've heavily enjoyed it and personally, I prefer Unity over Unreal.
