Lindsay Schardon
You can access the full course here: C++ Programming for Beginners Basic Variables As fun as input output is, it’s time to start learning about the language basics so we can make our programs actually do something significant. There’s no better place to start than with variables. Variables are a fundamental component of every program … Read more A Comprehensive Guide to Variables in C++
You can access the full course here: C++ Programming for Beginners Installation To write and run C++ code, we will use the IDE Visual Studio Code (VSC). It’s a fantastic IDE with thousands of plugins to help you write code in dozens of different languages. It also looks great and is easy to use. The … Read more How to Get Started Programming in C++
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Resource Gathering Creating the Resource Object To begin, let’s create a new empty GameObject called Resource_Tree. Next, drag the Tree model into the scene as a child of the empty object. Set the Position to 0, 0, 0 Set the Scale to 0.12, 0.12, 0.12 Next, select the Resource_Tree object. … Read more A Guide to Resource Management for RTS Games
We are excited to announce our latest eBook: Unity Animation for Beginners. Created by Tim Bonzon, an expert animator and Unity developer, this eBook will show you how to work with several of Unity’s animation features – including to the Animator component, the Animation Timeline, Cinemachine, and more. You will also learn to rig, animate, … Read more Free eBook – Unity Animation for Beginners
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Resource Gathering Camera Setup The camera controller will allow us to move the camera around with the keyboard and zoom in/out. This is similar to many other RTS games and their camera systems. Before we start scripting, let’s change the camera transform a bit. … Read more How to Create an RTS Camera Controller
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Unit Movement Multiple Units To begin, let’s duplicate the unit a few times and move them around. Then select the Player and drag the unit objects into the Units list. Box Select UI For the box select, create a new UI canvas. As a child of … Read more RTS Box Selection in Unity Tutorial
You can access the full course here: Player Authentication with Azure PlayFab Setting up the PlayFab App To begin, let’s go to the PlayFab website: http://playfab.com. If you have a Microsoft account, click Login, otherwise Sign Up. When you login, you’ll be taken to the Developer page. Here, click on the New Studio to create a new studio. All we … Read more An Overview of PlayFab for Multiplayer Games
You can access the full course here: Humanoid Animation Tools for Beginners Part 1 Animator Component In this lesson, we’ll be looking at the Animator component in Unity. Let’s start by creating a new Unity project. For this project, we’re going to be using some of Unity’s standard assets. These can be found on the … Read more How to 3D Animate in Unity
You can access the full course here: Mobile Game Development for Beginners Caching Objects In Unity, there’s many functions we can use to easily get objects/components. GameObject.Find GameObject.GetComponent GameObject.FindObjectOfType GameObject.FindObjectWithTag Camera.main Calling these every frame or frequently is not recommended. What you should do, is cache the object so that you can easily use it … Read more Optimizing Mobile Apps in Unity
You can access the full course here: Mobile Game Development for Beginners Touch Inputs Create a new C# script called ColorChanger and attach it to the main camera. Open it up in Visual Studio. In the Update function, we’re going to check for touch inputs. If the player has touched the screen, shoot a raycast at what … Read more How to Detect Touch Input for Mobile
