This Unity 3D drink is delicious
I have jumped on the Unity 3D bandwagon and I have to say, it's a smooth ride. It's refreshing to work in a tool that 100% devoted to game development.
I immediately jumped on their 2D platformer tutorial but quickly felt there was too much to wade through. I searched around and found some great tutorials, especially for Flash developers.
Unity for Flash Developers (1-7). These will teach you basic Unity concepts and how many are similar to Flash.
http://www.vimeo.com/2827541
You have to walk before you can run, but in game development, you have to shoot bullets and make explosions before either. This tutorial will show you how: http://www.unitytutorials.com/video/290/muzzle-flash--raycasting--bullet-explosion1
This tutorial takes you from the start as well and shows great stuff like making terrain in Unity. I haven't made it all the way through this one yet but its the best one have found so far. He uses Cinema 4D (which is Mac only I think) to do some modeling . I just downloaded a 30-day trial of 3Ds Max and everything transferred easily.
http://willgoldstone.com/learn/index.php?currentPage=unity_lesson1
Unity 3D definitely deserves all the buzz it is getting. When it gets something along the lines of MochiAds I might have to switch over from Flash.
I immediately jumped on their 2D platformer tutorial but quickly felt there was too much to wade through. I searched around and found some great tutorials, especially for Flash developers.
Unity for Flash Developers (1-7). These will teach you basic Unity concepts and how many are similar to Flash.
http://www.vimeo.com/2827541
You have to walk before you can run, but in game development, you have to shoot bullets and make explosions before either. This tutorial will show you how: http://www.unitytutorials.com/video/290/muzzle-flash--raycasting--bullet-explosion1
This tutorial takes you from the start as well and shows great stuff like making terrain in Unity. I haven't made it all the way through this one yet but its the best one have found so far. He uses Cinema 4D (which is Mac only I think) to do some modeling . I just downloaded a 30-day trial of 3Ds Max and everything transferred easily.
http://willgoldstone.com/learn/index.php?currentPage=unity_lesson1
Unity 3D definitely deserves all the buzz it is getting. When it gets something along the lines of MochiAds I might have to switch over from Flash.
posted by Brad Merritt at 9:27 AM
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You're right here in Georgia! I hear Atlanta Unity User Group!
I run the Atlanta Game Developer meetup and we have a number of Unity devs. http://gamedev.meetup.com/150/
this list really helped me get re-oriented after flailing around trying to learn Unity scripting.
http://diamondtearz.org/lists/unity3d-scripting/
Thanks Andrew! That reminds me, the FlashBang guys released a modified version of FlashDevelop for Unity: http://technology.blurst.com/unitydevelop-javascript-editor/
Being a long-time FlashDevelop user this made the transition to Unity even easier.
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