Wednesday, April 1st

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Welcome to April and Spring?
SLC meeting is scheduled for today at 11:30
After lunch – let’s watch all of the VHSA Videos as not all were seen by the group – everyone deserves a hand for their work

10:10 Unity Terrain

If you want to build a landscape and environment in Unity, it is pretty easy to do. Without doing anything in the editor, Unity has some terrain tools available. An expanded set of tools are available in the Unity Registry. Let’s look at the adding packages from the package manager and get a look at built in assests, the Unity Registry – which is basically a host of add on applications that ships with Unity but need to be enabled and the asset store. Any thoughts on why Unity does not enable these with a new project?

Why build Terrain?

Rapid prototyping
Terrain objects are Unity game objects so you can add colliders, lighting, etc…
Creates more dynamic levels
Simulate terrain effects like bridges, terraces, wind and thermal erosion, heightmaps, holes

Unity’s Asset store is full of content that can be used for game development, game prototyping, architectural renderings and animations and visual effects.

Let’s look at how the terrain system in Unity works and build out a scene together. There are a lot of great assets you may like to explore and import.

Remember, you don’t have to include an entire asset library. During the import process you can pick and choose. Here are some that you might find enjoyable….

LowPoly – Medieval Fantasy Series
Unity Starter Assets for these to work we’ll also need Cinemachine
Fantasy Landscapes
Aquas Lite
Handpainted Grass and Ground Textures
Grass Flower Pack by ALP8310
Conifers BOTD or the other new one that comes up when you search Conifers
Coconut Palm Tree Pack
Outdoor Ground Textures
Nature Starter Kit 2
Rocky Hills Environment Light
Sun Temple by Sandro T
Flooded Grounds by Sandro T
Modular First Person Controller by JECASE – so you can run around (disable main camera)

Our Goals today are:

Add foliage and details
Activate the terrain tools
Add on the some sample assets (Low poly and starter)
Create a custom terrain
Raise and lower terrain height
Paint terrain details

Getting a Player in the Scene – We’ll use the Standard Assets Package and Cinemachine. Both need to be added. Then…

10:50 Break

11:00 Pinball – what’s next…

We are at the 3/4 mark with our pinball games. They are not incredible to look at but we do have a cool controller, sounds, score and a theme. Probably need to consider a few more items before we put it away as a sample project to practice coding and design. One thing for sure, it’s challenging to do all of it.

Intrinsically we want the game to look beautiful, but we know that is difficult – and we change our minds a lot! So what’s left (of the basics)

Health or lives
Game Over / Restart
Start Screen
Publishing

Code we can use in our Game Manager for managing lives (plays)

//add to variables
public int lives = 3;
public PinBallLauncher launcher;  //get reference to your ball launch script

public void LoseBall()
{
    lives = lives - 1;
    if(lives > 0)
    {
        launcher.ResetBall();
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log("Game Over!");
        Destroy(launcher.gameObject); launcher = null;
    }
}

Code on our Killbox

public PinBallLauncher launcher;
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
    if (collision.CompareTag("Ball"))
    {
       
        GameManager.gmInstance.LoseBall();
       
        launcher.ResetBall();
    }
}