[[TOC]] tutorial link demo link Observations Something i really like about this format is they insist you watch the whole video first, then try it out after. Usually with these things try to be as efficient as I can, so I try to keep up and get frustrated when it doesn’t work. I often get so hung up that I might not get to the end of the video....
I’ve been struggling with this one for months. It has made me stop working on this game altogether (as have other things). First off, the problem doesn’t make much sense. I’m using equivalent logic to handle the positioning of some elements in one view as I am in another. The game is the latest iteration of my resource management sim idea. Villagers get assigned to work stations that produce resources the villagers need to survive....
I’m working on getting back into using AWS tools, and ran across their game hosting tool: Game Lift. It has support for Unity 2019. We’re hosting a game, yo. Bullets from main tutorial: Each version of your game server is called a build Game servers are deployed into fleets of one or more Amazon EC2 instances (this takes a while) There also seems to be a hard limit of one instance for free (?...
One of my game ideas is a walking sim. I’ve been considering how best to design this game, and one of the ideas was that exploring and interacting with the environment would trigger animated scenes that depict a child’s challenging experiences while growing up. These scenes would be attached to objects, like walls or terrain. I’m going to explore a few ideas on how to make that work. Hey, Google, how do I “unity attach a gif to an object”....
My StreamingAssets load function is failing to find the file in a WebGL build. 1 2 3 4 87fe1115-9410-4333-86b8-4f13bd96c86d:8 DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path '/http:/localhost:58316/StreamingAssets/data/events'. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError (System.Int32 errorCode, System.String maybeFullPath) [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0 (Filename: currently not available on il2cpp Line: -1) The load function: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 private static string LoadStreamingAsset(string filePath) { // string filePath = System....
I don’t know a bunch of stuff, let’s find out what, and remedy the situation. I opened a new 3D project and stared at the screen. What’s the first step? We need a character, and something for it to run on. Googled: “Add character 3D world”, clicked first link. http://www.strandedsoft.com/creating-a-3d-world-and-a-playable-character-in-unity3d/ Neat! Terrain tool I’ve never used this. Creating a new terrain: GameObject menu -> 3D Object -> Terrain Adjusting terrain contour Click the icon that looks like a paint brush in the terrain Inspector....
Loading the canvas libs Now that Karma is all wired up, I can start poking at the tests. The first problem I need to fix involves canvas-libs. knobsAndLevers uses the supporting object in canvas-libs to set a randomized initial spawn interval for the creatures. The usage is: 1 this.spider.initialInterval = supporting.getRandom(this.spider.interval.min, this.spider.interval.max); But knobsAndLevers.init() fails, because supporting is not available: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 $ node_modules/....
Planning Yesterday, I left off with the gamepad controls working, but only in a way that basically broke all of the challenge of the game. The change allowed the player to move outside the defined player boundaries, which meant they could shoot from below the canvas with impunity. Hurray! Today, I’m going to fix that. Adding a Layer of Abstraction First, directional control functions were moved from gamePiece to controls. Another layer of abstraction was added to handle getActiveDirection checking....
Session Planning I see a potential problem in the controls if more than one controller button is needed simultaneously. The isFiring returns a boolean on the FIRST button push it detects, and would ignore any additional entries in that list. This means if I press A, it will do the action for A, but then if I keep pressing A, and also press B, the action for A+B would not get executed; only the action for A would....
Today, I’m adding controller support to Centipede. (See the first controller commit.) Controls Code Cleanup First, the location of the controls currently doesn’t make a lot of sense, so I’m moving them to a new file, controls.js. On load, controls.addEventListeners will execute. There are no dependencies, so the script load order doesn’t matter. Previously these were on the gameArea object because that’s where the keys tracker was stored, but the keys tracker can just live in the controls object....