The Strange School

If you have any questions about the course feel free to post them here and I will answer them as soon as I can- thanks!

Hi M dot and thanks for the videos. Any chance to get two extra videos :

Laser gun

Behavior designer walk / attack enemy ?

Thanks

So laser gun with a raycast? If so yes no prob! Actually most of what you need to make a laser gun work is in this bonus video Bonus 05- Using a raycast to target and damage but I'll look into making one anyway ^_^

The next video series I'm going to do is going to be all about Behavior Designer/Advanced AI- you'll get it free since you are an early adopter

thanks a lot fo the raygun, looking forward to it. In the meantime i will have a look at the Bonus 5.

I added a laser gun tutorial to my to do list ^_^

Hello Mr. M dot Strange. I have a question. Would you make me a private tutorial? (for addtional money) where you show me how to make the following MOVEMENT and TARGETING?

I mean the crosshair (spot on ground) the shooting, the line of fire and circle movement. The example was created in playmaker. And the death particle effect on dead zombies.

Hey Andre- give me a couple days so I can check out those controls and reproduce them ^_^ Then I'll get back to you

Hi
I would like to make a weapon switch let's say changing from weapon 1 to 2 to 3 after pickup
Any chance to show or give me guidance for this? Guess i will have to ise an array to store the 3 weapons after pickup but can't figure out how to switch
Thanks

Hey Emmanuel- I'll add this to my todo list as I created that exact weapon switching setup for my game "Powerless" without using arrays-

Hai M dot Strange!

I just recently bought your Behavior Designer tutorial.. Great stuff.. I had problems with understanding conditional aborts but your explanation made that "click" in my head.. now i'm much more confident using them..

Question regarding Behavior Designer on non humanoid characters.. I tried to use behavior designer on vehicles, in combination with another asset (Edy's vehicle physics).. And I am having troubles:)
I am not trying to create racing AI, it would be like classic enemies (patrol, seek, wander, attack with multiple attacks).. so basically replacing your party monster with a car..

Any advice on how would you setup the vehicle so it is actually driving around the map?
Any vehicle assets you think would be easy to integrate with Behavior Designer / Playmaker?
Maybe Car Setup for Playmaker could work in this case?

Don't know where to start:/

Thanks!

Hey Allen! yeh it took me awhile to get conditional aborts- but then when you do start using them they are insanely helpful-

Hmm for a car--- it would be a similar setup- one of the things that would need to change is the look at setup- as a car isn't always looking in its direction of movement- outside of that it shouldn't be too much trouble-

I would just focus on one thing at a time- first set it up with a cube instead of a car- get it driving around the navmesh- once you have that working start adding features- to control areas the car can drive on look into navmesh layers- you could have one layer for cars another for pedestrians etc-

Let me know what specific problems you are having with your setup and I'll try to help better ^_^

I bought and used this Playmaker Car setup and it works pretty well https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/26508

Could modify that for your purposes?

Yeah, that's the asset I planned to buy..
I have to purchase it first, tho.. And I already spent my monthly budget for education/tools :D

Poor man in poor country problems :D
Until then I will try with cube and 4 cylinders, and explore the possibilities on controlling Edy's vehicle scripts with Playmaker.. if I get that working, I'll expand logic with behavior trees..

That way I won't fiddle with 3 assets simultaneously..

Thanks for your help!
Your style of explaining is hitting the right spots in my brain, no so easy to find teacher like that.. Keep up the good work:)

I've learned through trial and error that all the important work in games is done with cubes and cylinders ^_^ I've been working with cylinders and cubes for 3 months on my current game-

I wouldn't say that car asset is a must need- actually the fsm's are a little crazy on that asset 0_0 I can show you come screenshots if you want to see it- you might be better off creating your own car setup as that asset is just ok imo

What country are you from btw?

I've never done any car setups besides a first person view from when I was playing with this

So its a third person car setup you are doing? Let me know and I might have a go trying to do it and share my findings ^_^

Best to you my friend-

I got an idea last night.. and it seems it has some potential..
At first, I was trying to emulate real car.. but why? It is a game, if it looks like a car, and behaves like a car, who cares what is happening under the hood..

Behavior Designer uses navmesh, and wheel colliders don't.. but if I make dummy invisible object, make that object waypoint for a car, attach behavior tree to that dummy car should follow it in a more car-like way..

This is the first test.. and i believe it has some potential..

Next, I think i should make some colliders on my dummy.
One large, to slow down vehicle when approaching the dummy. And a smaller one to stop the vehicle when it reaches dummy..

I think I should include something to reverse and rotate vehicle if/when agent gets behind the car..
Also, it would behave much nicer if i fine tune dummy speed/angular with cars speed/angular..

This is simpe scene with controlled turreted car prototype I'm working on, ATM, and where i would like to add my car-like enemies..

BTW, Yeah. I'm not like poor-poor, I have foodz/internetz/hot waterz.. so, i'm really a rich guy.. but in context of buying from developed countries, can't afford much.. (average annual salary is less than 10k USD)..
Country is Croatia..

BTW2, regarding that video you posted, your strange style never fails to put a smile on my face:)

any comments on my progress is much welcome

Its looking good ^_^ Yeh for that wheel colliders etc might be overkill- looks good the way it is- and why make it more complicated than it needs to be? With that top down view I don't think the vehicle physics will be important- you've got the turning/controls down good-

I've been trying to limit my reliance on assets for game mechanics- some of them may be easy to use - but when it comes to customizing them it can get messy- that Playmaker car setup asset is pretty messy- I would have been better off making my own-

What other weapons are you going to do? I'm making weapons for a project right now so I'm deep in that- for explosion/splash damage OverlapSphere's are great- just discovered those haha- I've made some Playmaker actions for those and other things here https://snipt.net/mdotstrange/

Croatia eh? I'm part Croatian myself- my mothers grandparents were from Ston- I've stayed in Dubrovnik(old town) two times for Xmas- My wife and I really like it there- I have never owned a car so I like that there are no cars in old town haha-