Unity Free Tutorials

Unity Free Tutorials

First Tutorial

For my first tutorial I looked up how to make a character in Unity so I could make some NPCs for my game. I looked this up on Google and it brought me to Youtube where I found an easy to follow to tutorial. 

This is a link to it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0okzfjSp8 

I found it really easy to create my character as you are given sample body types and them you can do it how ever you like by using sliders to adjust so many different things to do with it such as it's height, arm length, weight, facial expressions and you can also put a load of different clothes on it. 

( This is a screenshot of my character in Unity)

Second Tutorial

The second tutorial I looked at was how to create an animation with the camera, I found this animation on the unity website, In theory it was easy but I found it a bit difficult to get the camera to go where I wanted it to. 

This is a link to the tutorial:

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/animation/animation-view?playlist=17099

( This is a screen recording of the animation I created with the Camera in Unity)

 

Game Fun

Reading Week 7

The first article is Natural Funativity.

This article is all about how it is in our genes to play games. The author talks about how tens of thousands of years ago people would play games to improve their survival skills and in a way that is what we still do to this day. He used the example of a hunter coming home after a successful hunt he has three options go back out to try get more food even though its dangerous, just rest until he starts to run out of food but risk being a bit rusty when he goes out hunting again or in the safety of camp he can practise his survival skills by throwing a rock at a balancing piece of wood. The author talks about to this day we are still affected by what our ancestors done.

The second article is Players who suit MUD's (MMO's).

This article talks about the 4 different reasons people enjoyed a popular MMO years ago and how it can be seen to categorise all gamers effectively. The four different types are Achievers, Explorers, Socialisers and Killers. It talks about how many players will be a bit of all but they mainly are one and do the others to progress there main play style or just based off there mood that day. The article states games can easily die if there is too much or similarly too little of a type as it will hinder other peoples fun. 

(This is a picture of the GTA Online logo as I feel like this is a good representation of the second article, Image taken from WikiMedia)