Unity Project 1, Individual Work Part 2

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17/11/15

Rather than using the space bar to move, I have changed the keys to respond like a regular computer game would, by using the arrow keys. So this means that depending on what arrow key is pressed, it will move in a different direction.

(After this I imported my own model into Unity that I had made and decided to practice using Unity with this model)

 

I even made the camera follow him around, but decided against it afterwards and so removed it again.

Part 2

30/11/15

Moving onto the new tutorial video, I have added Rigidbodies to objects, such as a small bomb asset just to test it out.

After changing the settings, this meant that the bomb would bounce up and down. However, if the player was to touch it:

The bomb just starts to roll and never stops unless it falls off the map or crashes into something else on the map.

 

01/12/15

I started to mess around with the Terrain within Unity and imported a texture to make it look like snow, raised some of the terrain and changed the small ramp into a snow ramp to give the area a nicer look.

I have added collisions to the raised areas so that he will either be unable to get onto them, or be able to roll up some of the lower areas

I have then had a look into Particle Systems and added them into the level to make it look as though it is snowing:

Within the terrain, I also decided to add some trees, however Unity decided to crash and I have lost everything that I have done today.

Unity Project 1, Individual Work Part 1

02/11/15 Today we got Unity in college to work with on our 3D Game. In order to get to grips with this program, we have been given a shared folder of Unity tutorial videos to use and follow to gain …

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Flash Coding

A week ago, we were taught how to draw in flash by using coding. This meant that you could input code for certain shapes and colours and then it would then output as an image. This is the code that …

Hello World.

I have practiced using the Hello World tutorial in other programs, as it is best to learn as many programming languages as possible.

Visual Basic

Since I already have a basic knowledge of Visual Basic from Last year, I decided to try and practice it again so that I don’t forget some of the things that I learned.

Hello World Message Box.

In this Hello World, I created a pop up message box, which once started, would say “Hello World”, The  images below show the code and the message box.

Hello World Console.

I then changed the message box to be read inside the Console itself.

The first line of code states what is going to be inside the console, however, with just the first line itself, the console closes immediately, which means that the second line of code is needed.

Console.Readkey is essential as it keeps the command window open, allowing us to read what is inside of the console.