#projectnachos

I LOVE level planning. Ever since I was a kid and there were modding kits for the Elder Scrolls and Dungeon Siege games, one of my favorite things to do was to put together new levels and worlds and watch everything come together and create challenges for my brother.

Through the years I have become (expectedly) better at it. I’ve been having tons of fun using Photoshop to plan out the first level for my game, though this is definitely one of the most tedious and time consuming activities for me. 

Above you can see where I am placing default paths and specific points that I plan to have in the level.

In this video you can see me testing out my planned level with a UV mapped texture. The circle in the middle represents the center of the village I will start in, and the brown lines will be turned into a beaten path that the player will follow to their destination.

One of the best practices I have implemented while working on projectNachos is writing out simple, clear goals every morning and working to complete those small goals by the end of the day to keep myself from getting overwhelmed and giving up on my project.

IT FINALLY WORKS

I have been looking into a solution for my model geometry problem for WEEKS, and today, thanks to some very helpful individuals in the official Unity forums, I have found the solution.

The problem occurs when bringing a mesh from Blender into Unity. For whatever reason the two applications do not get along well.

To fix my rotation issue, I had to parent an empty game object to the mesh made in blender and make sure my empty object was what received the code, then my mesh (as a child object) would obey that code.

Ta da! From there it was a simple matter of playing with and aligning the rotation of the mesh and the parent empty object, and now the basic AI for my bee works flawlessly.

Today I’ve been working on this little dilemma: