Game Dev in Progress… Day 46

Hello and it is Day 46 of my internship with Game Dev HQ. Today I was able to get half way through Phase I Framework in the 2.5D Game Development Course. I also spent most of the day listening to workshops about various topics on Unity. The two topics we went over were about setting up VR development in Unity and how to use States for developing games. After that, I continued working on the rest of Phase I Framework. Speaking of that a particular challenge came up while I was working on it. This challenge had to do with how positions work in Unity.

When I was working on moving the different game objects in the scene, I noticed that some of the positions were off. I don’t know why but there seems to be an offset to the positions of the assets I downloaded vs the positions in the scene in Unity. I did some testing and found out that when I zero out the positions of the game objects, they were not in the position I assumed to be. I created a primitive game object cube that I zeroed out as a reference. When I zeroed out the game objects, they should be at the same position as the cube. However they were not and were some place else entirely. I assumed that this was due to it being a child of a game object so I took it out of it’s parent to test. It didn’t work. I plan to bring this up later when I have the time to see if any one else has a solution to this problem. Other then this particular problem, I made some pretty good headway to finishing up 2.5D. Here is short clip of what I have so far:

I planned to get more things done today but the workshops were to good to past up. Some of the explanations might have gone over my head and I need to look at it a bit more but overall the experience was worth it. It was really cool to see how the VR development is set up and will be really useful if I ever decide to develop for it. The states workshop was enlightening and looking at it would have been handy for our game we made. It really versatile and I will be definitely in the future. Today was a really fun learning session and I hope to do more in the future. Anyways Happy Holidays and have a wonderful day!

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Cristian Aspacio