Gone for a while.

Hey everyone. Sorry I was gone for the last two months. I don't like posting personal stuff, so sorry I can't explain why I was gone. But I'm back now and ready to go. Hopefully I won't be away for so long again but you can never tell what the future holds.

Speaking of what the future holds:

For those who play DCS World, Eagle Dynamics has just put the F/A-18C module up for pre-order. I already bought my copy the moment I saw the news letter. If you're interested in this highly recognizable aircraft in the US Navy I'd recommend you get it before pre-orders are over. This module is expensive ($79.99 for the normal price) but while they are doing pre-orders it's down to a more reasonable $59.99, which is normally what we see for jet fighters. 

For those who like my violin section I will be continuing with that even though my lessons won't pick back up until after September. There's still a lot of information I can give you and I will as soon as I take care of a few loose ends.

As far as the Unity tutorials go... I'm honestly not sure if I should continue on with that. I've been taking looks at the Unity tutorials and I'm finding that the later videos are very very difficult to follow since Unity's interface and C# language has changed quite a bit since those videos were made. I'm not sure there's much of a point in continuing that thread. Perhaps if I can find better tutorials that use the latest Unity version I'll start it up again. Until then, I'm just not sure it'll be helpful for all of you.

I'm going to go for today. But, I'll be back with the newest violin post first and then the DCS Basic Flight Maneuver videos after that.

Unity Tutorial 2: Space Shooter

We are now on the second tutorial for Unity: The Space Shooter game.

This is where we start to run into problems. I've looked through and found that there are problems with the code between when the videos were made (2013) and now. There are 2 ways to go about figuring this out quickly and with as little headache as possible. First is to look at the comments section of each video (time consuming but helpful since people give explanations). Second is to go into the pre-made game folder and copy the codes from there (faster by far but there's no explanations).

Here's the video's. I hope they're helpful.

Introduction - 00 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Setting up the project - 01 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

The player gameobject - 02 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Camera and lighting - 03 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Adding a background - 04 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Moving the Player - 05 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Creating shots - 06 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Shooting shots - 07 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Boundary - 08 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Creating hazards - 09 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Explosions - 10 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Game Controller - 11 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Spawning waves - 12 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Audio - 13 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Counting Points - 14 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Ending the game - 15 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Building the game - 16 - Space Shooter - Unity Official Tutorials:

Those are all the videos for this tutorial. Remember if you find that a certain code is not working properly to go into the completed game file in Unity and compare that code to what you have. You'll find the problem and the correct code.

Next time I'll post the videos to the Survival Shooter Tutorial.

Unity Tutorial 1: Roll a Ball

This week I'll quickly discuss Unity's first tutorial: Roll a Ball. It's a very very simple game to make and, thankfully, there's no discrepancies between the current version of Unity and this tutorial. The Tutorial is split up into 8 videos on YouTube. I'll be linking you to them. If you come up with any problems take a look at the comments below each video. They are very helpful and quite a time saver. Also, Unity includes a completed version of the game when you download the asset pack so if you get lost with the coding part or something doesn't work, take a look at theirs.

Here's the links to all the Roll a Ball videos. Have fun!

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 1 of 8: Setting up the Game - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 2 of 8: Moving the Player - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 3 of 8: Moving the Camera - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 4 of 8: Setting up the Play Area - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 5 of 8: Creating Collectibles - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 6 of 8: Counting Points - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 7 of 8: Displaying Score and Text - Unity Official Tutorials:

Unity 5 - Roll a Ball game - 8 of 8: Building the Game - Unity Official Tutorials:

Next time I'll post the links to the Space Shooter tutorial. Have fun making your first game. 😉