My Journey into the GAMING Industry… Learning!! Day 37

Red Head Gaming Studios
3 min readJul 14, 2022

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Hi Guys

Here is the update on the last few days

12/07/22 — Started my day as normal, just finished watching a 30 minute video on the week 2: basic gameplay.

And just submitted my work to the Unity learned site so that they can look and learn from what I've done.

Here is a link to the project

“Give a dog a bone”

and

“dog ball”

Next:

Found two new sub reddits to share the YouTube links.

Finished four large learning courses and one Mission quest on Junior programmer part 1.…more on patreon.com/SKULLpturedGaming

I live in South Africa and there is a problem with the electricity provider (ESKOM)!!

And I was hit with the ESKOM PROBLEM again!!

That’s it for today

13/ 07/ 22— Started with some personal work today, but the entire day has already passed me by with very little work being done today!!

Did not even have the time to share links on Reddit

Cause I had the ESKOM PROBLEM hit me during the day!!

The electricity only came back on at 3:00 PM.

And it is already 3:30 PM, so just going to start jumping into doing my learning course.

Starting the Unit 4 in create with code.

On Lesson 4.1 — creating the project and open scene.

Setting up the player and adding a texture, creating a focal point for the camera, rotating the focal point by user input (taking down notes on this lesson). Adding forward force to the player (taking down more notes on this lesson).…more on patreon.com/SKULLpturedGaming

Lesson recap.

New functionality.

  • Camera rotates around this island based on the horizontal input.
  • Player rolls in direction of camera based on vertical input.

New concepts and skills.

  • Texture wraps.
  • Camera as child objects.
  • Global versus local coordinates.
  • Getting directions of other objects.

Next lesson:

In the next lesson, I'll add more challenge to the player, by creating enemies that chase them in the game.

And I have written down about 3/4 of a page worth of notes for the day. From this point on, I will be taking down notes a lot more.

And that's it for today, as it's already 5 PM. (Its now day end)

14/07/22 — (Today) — Well another day sharing links to YouTube on Reddit

Just a few more things to do before I Start learning course.

Start Learning @ 13:21 PM.

Lesson 4.2. — Follow the player.

Adding an enemy and a physics material. Creating enemy scripts to follow the player (taking down notes). Creating a lookDirection variable (taking down notes).…more on patreon.com/SKULLpturedGaming

Lesson recap.

New functionality:

  • Enemy spawns at random location on the island.
  • Enemies follows the player around.
  • Spheres bounce off of each other.

New concepts and skills:

  • Physical material.
  • Defining vectors in 3D space.
  • Normalizing values.
  • Methods with return values.

Next lesson:

In the next lesson, I'll create ways to fight back against these enemies using PowerUps!!!

For Today: I have taken down about 1 and half pages worth of notes

And that’s it for today nothing more was accomplished, cause of time!!

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Red Head Gaming Studios
Red Head Gaming Studios

Written by Red Head Gaming Studios

Red head gaming studios is a company that I created. And although it is relatively new my aim is to create a community of gamers and non-gamers.