You can access the full course here: Intro to Game Development with Unity Unity Materials What is a Material? Materials define how an object looks. Is it metal, plastic, wood, rough, soft, translucent? Materials allow you to define the specific characteristics of an object. A car has a metallic material. A tree has a rough … Read more How to Use Materials in Unity
You can access the full course here: Discover SFML for C++ Game Development Handling User Interactions There are many ways in which a user can interact with your program from pressing buttons, to opening and closing windows, and even simple events like moving a mouse. Each of these interactions triggers an event which we capture … Read more How to Handle User Interactions with SFML
You can access the full course here: Discover SFML for C++ Game Development Drawing Sprites We’ve seen how to draw a basic shape but realistically, most of our games will use more than shapes. We will want to place graphics, icons, and other images into our games and we do so via Sprites. Setting up … Read more Drawing Sprites with SFML & C++
You can access the full course here: Unreal Engine Game Development for Beginners Building Unreal Engine Games Building Our Game Now that you’ve got your game, you’ll want to share it with people or post it online. Building a game basically means packaging it up in a format that doesn’t require the game engine to … Read more How to Build Unreal Engine Games
You can access the full course here: C++ Foundations While Loops Now that we can perform tests and execute code once, the next step is to be able to perform tests and execute code multiple times as long as some condition continues to be true. For this, we use loops. Loops provide a way to … Read more Learn to use Loops in C++
You can access the full course here: C++ Foundations Vectors Arrays aren’t great when we need a list of data that will change in size, i.e. we will add elements to it or remove elements from it. For that, we can use a vector. It is a more functional version of an array that still … Read more A Guide to C++ Vectors
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
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
