Unity3D tutorial in .NET magazine
Recently I had the privilege to write an article for .NET magazine. It’s an introductory tutorial to Unity3D in which you’ll see how to build a car simulation in a simple desert scenery.
Those of you who had attended my sessions at FITC Amsterdam and at the March LFPUG meeting have already seen me building it live. The nice thing about Unity3D IDE and its drag & drop abilities is that you can actually create a car simulation in 10 minutes. But don’t be fooled, because tweaking it afterward takes ages – as with everything else. Anyway, now you can see and try it yourself. I hope you’ll like it!
The tutorial will lead you through different features of Unity3D like the terrain editor, 3D assets import, built-in scripts, projected shadows and particle system. It is available in the UK and elsewhere in Europe from March 30th (issue 201). It will be published in the US and Canada too, but a month later (also please note that .NET Magazine is called Practical Web Design on the other side of the Atlantic).
To make the tutorial as enjoyable as possible I put in all my modeling skills to create a nice car – a classic U.S. Army Jeep Willys. I also added a few simple scenery models like a hut and a dried tree trunk that can be used as obstacles. You can see a demo based on those models here.
Seems a really nice article, judging from the demo :D
I’ll try to get one but I doubt that I can find it in Portugal :(
It’s a very nice article. It was funny reading the article and then seeing (“everydayflash”) in the corner and then realising that you had written it.
Good job :) I’d like to see more Unity experiments.
Czy istnieje szansa na publikację tego tutoriala na Twojej stronie WWW? Zależy mi na nim, ale nie mam dostępu do tego pisma.
Pozdrawiam,
MK
Looks like an excellent demo, and I’d love to be able to pick up the mag, but like Peixinho, I’m in Portugal, I know it would be a lot to ask, but is there any chance you could send me the resources? I really appreciate your work, but as I said, Portugal isn’t really the best place to find .Net.
I’ve already published a message about this in another area although it’s more about your comments on being in your 30′s and learning new things; but this demo was fun, although I got stuck on the branch and couldn’t’ get off for your Jeep wasn’t 4 wheel drive…lol. I looked at the .net website, and it shows issue 201, but it didn’t mention your article. I’m sure it doesn’t identify every article in it’s monthly previews, but you would think Unity3D is pretty big news these days. Anyway, I’ll try to find the mag here in the states, but are the source files for this demo available? I’m also trying to learn Unity3D, and being former military, I’d love to extend this desert demo and add more buildings, vehicles and other activity to learn as much as I can about creating scenes in Unity. You have my e-mail, and I would really appreciate a link to the source if available. Thanks for all your great examples, it really helps for someone trying to learn all these new 3D technologies for the web.
@Kurtmel In the States it’s called “Practical Web Design” I think.
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