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Don McCoy

Don McCoy

Seek And Destroy

Ok, so our enemy NPC has a patrol route around the arena. Next step is to make the enemy target the player when he gets to close and cause damage when the enemy collides with the player. I think I'm starting to get the hang of some of

Navigation

I have a player that I can move around and shoot using the keyboard, how does the enemy player I created do those same things. In Unity, its through the use of NavMes and NavMeshAgent. The NavMesh is a map of the walkable player surface on the level. The NavMeshAgent

Scripting Game Mechanics

We're jumping now... Enumerations are super powerful tools in C#. In the Hero Born PlayerBehavior code, we use an enumeration to get keyboard input using the KeyCode enum. Without the use of a layer mask, the player can hit the key repeatedly. If we set the program to

Movement, Camera Controls, and Collisions

So chapter 7 is pretty huge in terms of building up on chapter 6. I guess that's why he structured the book that way. In this chapter, I learned how to control the player object using the 'w a s d' keys as well as the

Unity is Massive

Ok, so finishing chapter 6 in the book, which is an intro to Unity, I now realize how big Unity's engine actually is. I created a few materials, one to change the floor to a blue color and one to change what the books calls a health pill

Getting Started

Getting Started

I've created this blog to document my journey through learning C#. Why as a 40 something year old dude would I want to learn C#? I recently got an Meta Quest 2 as my anniversary gift from my wife. I love it. However there is one type of