Monday, January 23, 2017

Work still a bit slow

Contact with teams has resumed yay! Still watching a lot of tutorial videos on programming in unity but took a break from that to work on a wolf model which looks worlds better than my last attempt even with the basic start I have:
The shape is there but I need to add a lot of little details like spikes of fur among other things. I am actually looking at some wolf toys and other similar models online hah. I don't want to use fur planes if possible... those are a pain to work with and get to look right. I see why a lot of the earlier wolves just let texture do most of the work. It saves polys and hassle, but it the smooth look is a bit bland when you can work in a bit more detail especially with current computers and a smaller scale game.

Hopefully better updates next time but these last couple weeks have mainly been self training and just a smidge of modelling the last couple days. Will write again in a couple weeks!



Monday, January 9, 2017

Holidays killed my teams!

Well not really, but radio silence seems to be the norm in terms of projects atm. However, I have been using the free time to improve coding/unity skills. The end goal of course being able to create some small projects or prototype some level/design concepts on my own. Small steps, but with the help of Udemy, youtube, and google I hope to get there! Here is a small update of what I have been doing with a Udemy course:
You may or may not recognize some of the assets are from a site called Glitch the Game. There are a lot of pre-made assets from a game that failed a few years back but went public domain. A good place for resources or simply understanding things that go into such a game. This pic is just a small level setup/game asset animation scene.

As for the course it is still focusing on 2D games mainly but I have learned a lot about menu systems and general C# programming tricks. Definitely recommend it if it is still on sale: Learn to Code by Making Games - The Complete Unity Developer.

See you next update and thanks for reading!