Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I made one of those Rimsky-Korsakov boxes. #covid #wildfires #ventilation #CorsiRosenthal

@shana Found and fixed the problem! (I had typed transform instead of transform.parent at one point, leading to an object having a reference to itself and thence to a stack overflow.)

Thanks again! Mastodon is the most responsive forum I've seen for tech questions like this.

I'm working through the "Space SHMUP" tutorial from Bond's excellent "Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development (Third Edition)". I've spent quite a few hours on this and am ready to test the fancy shields on Enemy 4.

When I run the game and fire, the projectile hits the shield and ... Unity crashes.

No error message, no bug report pop-up. It just dies. This happens consistently.

I don't see how I can make progress from here. Any ideas?

People who have used Godot: is it more stable?

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #godot #ubuntu

@akien @Emi
@LouisIngenthron

Okay, here are my big questions:

1) Can I use Synty assets with Godot?

2) What about packages like Pixel Crushers' Dialogue System or More Mountains' TopDown Engine?

3) If Godot is compatible with Unity stuff, does it carry forward all of Unity's "backward compatibility" warts?

Does Unity save your changes?

In a scene: No, you have to explicitly save. Also, changes you make while the game is running are undone when the run ends.

In a prefab: Yes, silently.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #consistency

"Awake(), Start(), Update() and other built-in Monobehaviour methods are scripted in a special manner so that--unlike standard methods in C# class inheritance--you don't need to use the ... override keyword."

Because of course they are.

#unity #unity3d #cSharp #GameDev #SyntacticSugar #YoureNotTheBossOfMe #WhenIUseAWordItMeansJustWhatIChooseItToMean #DoWhatThouWiltShallBeTheWholeOfTheLaw

Ashoka addresses important questions like:

What if Kate McKinnon was Billie Eilish?

What if Easter Island was Mordor?

TIL In Unity, you can navigate and expand/collapse things in the Hierarchy with the arrow keys.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev