binaryTuxedo does things.

pixelsaac:

binarytuxedo:

Interesting. I never used First Person Controller. I feared it may add an unwanted camera view, but that could be worked around. I’ll have to check it out.

It does, but you can turn off the camera inside the prefab.

Also, could you reccomend me any good C# for Unity tutorials, or even make a small one yourself/post some basic scripts (movement, making things appear/dissapear, basic stuff) for me to look at? It would be a giant, giant help.

I’ll look for some good ones, and if I can’t find any then I’ll slap one together.

pixelsaac:

Oh, wait, I think I got something..

if you open up the First Person Controller prefab, and click on ‘graphics’, over in the inspector where it shows ‘Poly Surface 2 (Mesh Filter)’ it appears you can change it to a cube, a cylinder, a plane, etc. 

then, you can click on the First Person Controller object in hierarchy and resize it so that the cubes top and bottom face is equal to the bottom and top of the ‘elongated capsule’ that is the actual Character Controller.

I may be wrong, but it seems to be working for me right now.. 

Interesting. I never used First Person Controller. I feared it may add an unwanted camera view, but that could be worked around. I’ll have to check it out.

pixelsaac:

binarytuxedo:

pixelsaac:

I’m tempted to just scrap my project and start everything again, from scratch. the thing is, I don’t know enough about Unity or Javascript yet to go and make something using an idea I have.

I’d like to make a 2d sidescroller using my own art and textures, but

1) I have little or no idea how to…

1) Unity isn’t really built for 2D game making. It can be done easily, but there’s some stuff you need to ignore or make work arounds for. Some simple stuff is set your camera to orthographic view, lock your z movement, and only change z values on objects to change display order. Otherwise, 2D is easier than 3D in some ways once you get around the other issues.

2) I’ve had stretching issues. The problem is Unity isn’t built for pixel art either. It’s used to much bigger images. I manually create larger copies of my pixel art to use in Unity. So, GNAW is 24 x 24 regularly. But, his Unity copy is 240 x 240. Just increased the canvas and expanded the art. Though Unity will never be pixel perfect.

3) I use C# in Unity since my original code language was C++. Unity can use C#, Java, or Boo(?). So, maybe C# would work better for your skills? Also, you can look up scripts online or there’s a lot of tutorials for various scripting.

Also, sometimes starting over can be good! I’ve started a few projects over from scratch. Look up “Iterative Game Design”

Thanks for the help. Just a few questions, if you will:

When you said, ‘lock your Z movement, by that do you mean the Z movement of the character controller? Also, do you know how to change the shape of the character controller? By default it is this weird elongated capsule when viewed as an object and I don’t particularly like that.

And yeah, I have a bit of experience with C#, so that might be a better route to take.It’s just all the tutorials I’ve used so far have used Javascript.

Yeah, I see what you mean by Iterative game design. Seems like a good thing now..

Your welcome, and ask as many as ya like!

Lock Z: Yeah, z movement of character controller, and anything else really. There should be some checkbox on it, I believe. You might also want to lock rotation.

Capsule: You can’t naturally change the capsule shape, but it’s probably your best bet for movement. I’m actually looking into this since mine currently has issues because of this. (Landing on the edge of the square puts him through the square texture) If I come up with something then I’ll tell ya.

pixelsaac:

I’m tempted to just scrap my project and start everything again, from scratch. the thing is, I don’t know enough about Unity or Javascript yet to go and make something using an idea I have.

I’d like to make a 2d sidescroller using my own art and textures, but

1) I have little or no idea how to…

1) Unity isn’t really built for 2D game making. It can be done easily, but there’s some stuff you need to ignore or make work arounds for. Some simple stuff is set your camera to orthographic view, lock your z movement, and only change z values on objects to change display order. Otherwise, 2D is easier than 3D in some ways once you get around the other issues.

2) I’ve had stretching issues. The problem is Unity isn’t built for pixel art either. It’s used to much bigger images. I manually create larger copies of my pixel art to use in Unity. So, GNAW is 24 x 24 regularly. But, his Unity copy is 240 x 240. Just increased the canvas and expanded the art. Though Unity will never be pixel perfect.

3) I use C# in Unity since my original code language was C++. Unity can use C#, Java, or Boo(?). So, maybe C# would work better for your skills? Also, you can look up scripts online or there’s a lot of tutorials for various scripting.

Also, sometimes starting over can be good! I’ve started a few projects over from scratch. Look up “Iterative Game Design”