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I've used it a fair bit mate. It's really impressive to be honest. However, there is a steep learning curve and it's not realistic to expect to simply jump in and start producing half-decent games! I'm not trying to put folks off from having a go; but be prepared to invest a LOT of hours getting to grips with the interface, scripting, modelling, etc. (obviously depends on your knowledge of such things).
The Free version will allow you to publish to PC executable, Web, Android (needs Android SDK), iOS (requires Apple developer account, $99 per year and a suitable Mac computer). It's not as simple publishing to iOS though...
Do you have any programming / graphics / game development experience?
LOL! I know nothingCheers for the reply. I should have guessed you'd be the best person to answer my question
There's LOADS of Unity stuff on the 'Net - from tutorials to downloadable 'games' and so forth. Sadly I cannot remember any of the decent sites off the top of my head, but they are out there; and cater for all levels of experience and ability. I'm not aware of any official learning material, but I expect there is some out there as Unity is fast becoming a major player within this area of game development.
Knowledge of C# and Javascript will be useful as these are predominantly the languages used to code 'under the hood' with Unity (C# is the best bet in my opinion). Your knowledge of the language and semantics will be very useful here. Having an eye for what looks good and your 3D skillz
will also help massively; it's relatively easy to take your 3D art assets and get them into your game world. The best bet is to just dive in and don't be put off by the initial 'clunkiness' of the system. It soon becomes second nature and prefabs are your friend... Generally. Seriously, great work
LOL! I know nothing
There's LOADS of Unity stuff on the 'Net - from tutorials to downloadable 'games' and so forth. Sadly I cannot remember any of the decent sites off the top of my head, but they are out there; and cater for all levels of experience and ability. I'm not aware of any official learning material, but I expect there is some out there as Unity is fast becoming a major player within this area of game development.
If you're willing to put in the time then you're well on your way. It's time more than anything else that is usually the deciding factor in how well you progress with it and, indeed, the results! It's obvious you've got talent and skills that would be beneficial so it may be a bit easier for you than compared to, say, someone coming in as a total noob.
Knowledge of C# and Javascript will be useful as these are predominantly the languages used to code 'under the hood' with Unity (C# is the best bet in my opinion). Your knowledge of the language and semantics will be very useful here. Having an eye for what looks good and your 3D skillz
On a different note, I love the 3D modelling mate! Very nice! Is it a Cycles Render from within Blender? I'm tempted to be cheeky and ask for the models so that I can run them through my own raytracing software that I'm currently writing.
. It's a V-Ray render done in 3dsMax with a few Photoshop effects on top. Although, they're not polished renders and the DOF was done in Photoshop to save rendering time. The final render will hopefully look better when I get round to finishing off the exterior and starting on the interior.
Thanks for the link mate. I'll download and see what it looks like in my raytracer (once I get it working properly again, as I've broken it at the moment).I'll have a look around tonight and see what learning material I can find. I saw a couple of videos on the Unity site so I might use them to get familiar with the interface.
Thanks
I'm looking forwards to jumping into it and seeing what can be done. I'm going to have a think about a simple game I can start with and see if I can build up from that.
I've seen your raytracing thread, really interesting stuff. I'd like to see how the camper renders using it
I've PM'ed you a link to the 3D model.
I'll also need to re-install Max as I'm only running Maya at the moment.Ah yes, Abrash! I'm looking at his Graphics Programming Black Book sitting on my shelf right now! Mode X was great.These kids these days don't realise how easy it all is nowadays!
Mode X was where it was in the DOS days..its interesting having to draw a frame every 4th pixel at a time...otherwise big speed penalty.
My Michael abrash book still sits on the bookshelf!
[COLOR=#000000]char far *ptr_to_video_segment = MK_FP(0xA000, 0x0000);[/COLOR]The lost art of assembler coding... Often challenging, often frustrating, often rewarding... and strangely addictive. I remember writing a few little games and routines in assembler but my more ambitious projects nearly always were C based. Back in those days (DOS, Mode X) I would still use assembler for the likes of memory copies, sprite rendering / blitting and similar. I enjoyed being able to extract as much performance as possible from the target platform - whether using assembler, or optimisation methods such as unrolling loops (or various other tricks that were needed). Compiler optimisations weren't so good in those days.
LOL - I like your style! I really struggled, whilst at Uni, to muster enthusiasm for anything other than programming-based modules on my course. Even some of those modules were a bit of a chore as they assumed little to no experience of programming (the language in this case being C++) whereas I'd been programming from quite a young age. Implementing string classes, container classes (the typical lists, queues, dequeues, stacks, etc. that you will be all too familiar with), and so forth... At least they were easy to get through and didn't require much effort.
However, I did enjoy the graphics programming module strangely enough. The brief was simple; write a software rasteriser (DOS, 0xA000 13h) that would render simple 3D graphics. The starting point given was a skeleton framework for a triangle / trapezoid rasteriser and we had to go from there. My first task was to ditch that framework and I wrote my own (you'd have done the same!) The idea was to develop the renderer and add lighting, flat shading, Gouraud shading (extra points!) and so forth. As this was an area I was interested in I went a step or two further and wrote a software renderer that supported various lighting/shading models, performed affine or perspective correct texture mapping, ASE model loading support, simplified volume rendering (which ran dog slow), virtual camera system, particle effects(!), post process effects and a few other things.Oh yes, I can't believe I forgot about that one! Mr Abrash seems to be doing ok these days as I see he's now working on the Occulus Rift platform.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. Truly talented (younger) programmers are few and far between these days. I won't get on my soapbox but my vision of programming, compared to the visions of new generation coders, don't often align! Trying to find decent software engineers is a pain these days; there is definitely a significant skills gap. It's scary how many so-called expert programmers don't have a clue how to debug or understand what's actually going on with their code at a lower level.
Mine or STRBramley's? LOL! STRBramley's work is awesome.
Thanks sn00p/Andy - my brain has attempted to follow the above and is currently dribbling out by my ear lobes.
High-end stuff guys - waaaay beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals!
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Blimey mate - sounds like it's been a busy end to the week! I reckon that glass of wine will be (was?) well deserved.
LOL! Ssssssh... D, I haven't a clue what sn00p's on about either...Thanks sn00p/Andy - my brain has attempted to follow the above and is currently dribbling out by my ear lobes.
High-end stuff guys - waaaay beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals!
(well, maybe a little bit here and there!) I know it involves wine at some point. And troublesome firmware. I remember the Atari ST and Amiga demoscenes particularly fondly and obtaining the latest demo releases by purchasing from the various public domain libraries that were available at the time. I might take a quick look at the source code sometime - just out of curiosity more than anything else. Thanks for the links and nostalgia! I don't think many people pay much attention as I tend to ramble on sometimes! But thanks, I appreciate the comment and it's good to know they are well received I really have a passion for computer graphics and visualisation and sometimes that just spills over onto the forum. I hope I can provide further updates soon (planning on adding a simple global illumination ambient occlusion calculation to simulate indirect lighting and Rayleigh/Mie scattering with aerial perspective to generate some nice landscape and sky renders with half decent sky colours, sunsets and so forth). Time permitting of course.A good result by the sounds of it mate. And it also sounds like challenging and interesting work, too. I bet that wine went down well...
@STRBramley - I'm trying to locate my 3dsmax install and licence key as my new build PC hasn't seen them installed yet. The problem is that I can't locate either and that is somewhat concerning... Can you export the model in fbx format? That way I can bring it straight into Maya (which I do have installed!) No problem if not!
Thanks for your time and exporting again. Sadly Maya hasn't done such a good job of importing it. I didn't expect the materials and textures to necessarily come through unscathed but the mesh seems to have suffered, too. There are various parts missing and some in wrong places. Not to worry, I'll try again when I get Max installed
Thank you!Yes, it can feel a bit like that to start with! It's definitely worth giving it some time though as it is incredibly powerful and, believe it or not, fairly intuitive once you get to grips with it. When I get back home I'll see if I can find the links to the websites I looked at when I first started playing with Unity. There were a couple of gems but I cannot remember them.
Haha! That is fantastic and 'proper hardcore'
And impressive! The only disappointment is the lack of text scroller, copper bars and sine bobs... I'm now keen to return home and see if I can find any of my old source code from 'back in the day'. That's if I can a) find the diskettes and b) purchase a floppy drive for my PC and c) if the disks are still readable. I suspect that is a big ask.Thanks for your time and exporting again. Sadly Maya hasn't done such a good job of importing it. I didn't expect the materials and textures to necessarily come through unscathed but the mesh seems to have suffered, too. There are various parts missing and some in wrong places. Not to worry, I'll try again when I get Max installed
Yes, it can feel a bit like that to start with! It's definitely worth giving it some time though as it is incredibly powerful and, believe it or not, fairly intuitive once you get to grips with it. When I get back home I'll see if I can find the links to the websites I looked at when I first started playing with Unity. There were a couple of gems but I cannot remember them.
Haha! That is fantastic and 'proper hardcore'
Mind you, I also remember being equally impressed the very first time I heard a digitised sound sample being played! I can't remember which system it was on now, but I do remember it being a sample of somebody laughing. And it took ages to load up from cassette. Happy days
How did the release go, mate? Looks like a cool little game
I'm loving where Unity is going at the moment and some of the newer features coming in v5 are looking good. I've never used it in anger as I've always worked on projects using custom engines and libraries but it's good to see Unity getting stronger and more widespread. It can't match some of the big hitting engines but it's flexibility and accessibility are a big draw and some of the games being developed on it are incredible. Not one of yours, is it sn00p?
