Post by culd on Jul 19, 2013 12:09:14 GMT -5
Some facts about the Unity coding system:
-It uses both C# and Javascript
-It's object oriented, and separate scripts may be placed on individual objects. Scripts can be reused on multiple objects.
-There are a series of built in functions, just like in other game engines. This makes it simpler when you want to make objects do something.
-AI navigation on custom maps is only available on Unity Pro, unfortunately. I did find an alternative but it's a bit trickier to use. I will likely post this to the forum.
-There are two separate types of collisions -- triggers and normal collisions. They're both pretty similar but triggers are less CPU intensive and collisions are more precise.
-The physics engine can and will bug out on you occasionally.
Just how it goes.
Anyway, I hope this was useful. I'll post more things as I think of them.
-It uses both C# and Javascript
-It's object oriented, and separate scripts may be placed on individual objects. Scripts can be reused on multiple objects.
-There are a series of built in functions, just like in other game engines. This makes it simpler when you want to make objects do something.
-AI navigation on custom maps is only available on Unity Pro, unfortunately. I did find an alternative but it's a bit trickier to use. I will likely post this to the forum.
-There are two separate types of collisions -- triggers and normal collisions. They're both pretty similar but triggers are less CPU intensive and collisions are more precise.
-The physics engine can and will bug out on you occasionally.
Just how it goes.Anyway, I hope this was useful. I'll post more things as I think of them.
Any wisdom you're willing to give us is much appreciated. I've fiddle with Unity over the past few months. I won't say I'm an expert but I understand how it works. There are few things that I wish Unity could do, such as the IDE being able to use real properties (getters and setters) from your scripts instead of public member variables, but overall it's a damn good tool. Oh, and you forgot about raycasting for collisions 
