Blender & Unity

Ahhh finally~

This piece of code was breaking the snappy movement:

Vector3 horizontalVelocity = rb.velocity;

horizontalVelocity.y = 0;

if (horizontalVelocity.sqrMagnitude < maxSpeed * maxSpeed)

rb.velocity = horizontalVelocity.normalized * maxSpeed + Vector3.up * rb.velocity.y;

This code's job was to cap the speed at which she runs. Now she runs 25 units (?) max.

I changed the movement speed to 3 and drag to 5. She comes to a stop quickly now and she turns instantly, not like before when it took milliseconds for her to turn around.

The movement reminds me of Mario in Odyssee. He too accelerates and takes some steps to come to a stop. Still, I fear that this accelaration might feel slow, but I will have to test this further down in prototyping once I have some tasks to do in the game.

I saw a tutorial with a different approach and completely overlooked that it's for 2D games. I thought "Oh well I'll just change Vector2 to Vector3 ha ha!"

Yeah no. I could have predicted this outcome, but I didn't. You can see me struggling with the controls, because "hardcoding" with axis in positive or negative values results in chaos.

In the video you can see the result of the tutorial from my last post. The animation kicks in, camera is following her nicely and she turns into the direction she is running, BUT she doesn't stop. You can see her running off the platform although I released the button.

The issue must be the velocity that is increased to make her move and that doesn't decrease despite the "Vector3.zero"

If I reset the velocity to 0 she doesn't move, except if I turn up the speed by a lot. And it basically deletes her walking animation, though you barely see that in the current state either. She stands and idles or she runs.

And the jump is laughable. Thankfully a farming game doesn't need a jump. I mean, if there was a jumping function you would expect to use it, right? I don't plan on putting in any platforming areas though, so that got cut.

I'm giggling madly

Unity's new input system is cool and rather straight forward, considering I know basically nothing about the old. I wrote one movement script in 2017 I think and it was copied from Brackeys. Now this script tho is also copied but this time it's from One Wheel Studio, who is making really good vids about this.

I followed these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHC-6I_LSos & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIl6ysorTE0 and was set up pretty good

Also the girl is from the asset store and already rigged. I must learn about animation next, but luckily that's part of the second vid.

3 weeks ago I saw this tutorial on blender grease pencil and was struck by this new tool. To imagine you can paint anything in a 3D space. I could do my own beautiful custom textures. I could make my game in water colours, like Gris. That is a darn beautiful game. And theoretically it's possible to export grease pencil objects to unity. I haven't tried that yet. I got distracted by tutorials on grass that looks like the grass of botw and genshin impact. Both games have picturesque environments. I literally downloaded genshin impact to roam in it for 3 hours and now I guess I should deinstall it. That game is so polished.

So, grass it was for me. I followed this tutorial for the past week (it feels like two bruh) and got stuck multiple times. How do I make nodes? Why isn't the gradient node split in two colours and consequentially why does my grass have only one colour? And what other videos am I supposed to watch where he prepares the shader? What a lucky coincedence too, that the unity urp got an update between two videos and now things like "albedo" are called differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWA5vgZqvQ&t=1907s

This stupid grass alone took so much research on the side, but I really like this grass. One day I will add a shader so that character movement will affect it. I guess I got a small grasp on unity's shader graph now, too.