Monday, October 11, 2010

Unity Stuff

I thought I would toss up some Unity tutorials for anybody who wants to give it a go. The Unity 3d site has a number of tutorials, and some good documentation, but for getting started videos are always the best!
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/video/

This site has a number of videos that will take you through the basics, it is based on Unity 2.6 though, and when he uses the "Island" demo you won't be able to follow along unless you download those assets from the Unity web page. But he covers pretty much everything to get comfortable with the interface, and to see how things basically function.
http://www.vtc.com/products/Introduction-to-Game-Development-Using-Unity-3D-Tutorials.htm

This one I found recently and covers a bit more about scripting and making things interactive. Just be aware that the first lessons start at the bottom of the page and get more complicated as you move up.
http://www.vtc.com/products/Introduction-to-Game-Development-Using-Unity-3D-Tutorials.htm

Me, Nate, and Nate discussed some things about scale and units to work in so I'll put those up here too.

Working units in Maya should be meters. The Maya default is centimeters, so you will need to make sure when before you model something you set the units in the settings to meters.

A human in the game world will be about 2 meters tall, and ships will need to fit into an 8x8x8 meter box. So keep in mind if a human is 2 meters tall then the cockpit needs to be proportionate to that size on the ship you model. If you have a ship design that doesn't fit within that box size, then we can all discuss it. The reason for choosing that size is because we are trying to figure out how tight we can make the tunnels, and how sharp the corners can be and such. Having a standard box size just helps us to know that everybody's ships will work within the level we are designing.

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