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[migrafael]

I can't wait to begin these tutorials (again)... I have Unity burning a hole in my desktop, waiting to be used! But I have a game to finish first. Whatever you do don't stop making these ok?   

[Eraser]

Huh? No realtime engine does true raytracing. But you can make walls cast shadows and stuff...



Only in Unity pro though. 

Unity 3.0 is going to have crazy fast lighting options (deferred, and crazy shadow mapping stuff)

Ah yes, I forgot to tack on "free" to my post. It's kind of a let down because I was thinking of creating an adventure game, but I think the atmosphere of the game would be ruined by the fact that there's no real time lighting, so objects the player moved wouldn't cast fun real time shadows...

[RabTom]

Although not the same, you could always use lightmaps + blob shadows.

[Alec]

3.0 is going to have insane lighting options.

[Eraser]

3.0 is going to have insane lighting options.

But still, not for us freeloaders.

Although not the same, you could always use lightmaps + blob shadows.

... No thanks. Those shadows are to "bleh".

[levelbylevel]

Alec, your tutorials are ace, they've massively helped me get started with Unity

Just a quick question about your environment, since you seem to use javascript for all your unity goodness and are on a mac like myself, do you ever use an external application for code editing? I can see from your videos that you use the unitron editor, but just wanted to see if you used any other editors when not doing a tutorial. I'd really like to have code completion for the unity framework but other than switching to c# I can't see how this can be done on mac.

Thanks for the awesome tutorials :D

[Alec]

I use TextMate, it's pretty rad... doesn't really have code completion though.

The Flashbang guys hacked up a CRAZY code complete solution, it involves emulating Windows and stuff though. :|

http://technology.blurst.com/unitydevelop-javascript-editor/

Nothing wrong with using C# btw.

[Hideous]

I use C# and MonoDevelop. I get awesome code completion and stuff.

[PlayMeTape]

I love C#. Plus it's not that hard to apply what Alec is showing to C#, I've found it easy to use both C# and javascript in Unity.

There's a few differences that you'll soon learn. Most importantly I've found is:

Code:

GetComponent("Type");

in javascript
and

Code:

GetComponent<Type>();

in C#.

[Alec]

In javascript it can also be

GetComponent(Type);

i.e. no quotes necessary

[levelbylevel]

I've taken a look at TextMate before, it gets great reviews, it seems a little costly for a text editor (a little under €50) though, is it worth it do you think? (might be a silly question since you already bought it :p)

I've got no problems with C#, it's a great language (had a blast with it a year or so back making an XNA game), I'd planned on learning Unity with Javascript but code-completion is a biggie for me so think I might just give the C# + MonoDevelop combination a go.

Cheers

[Alec]

TextMate is insanely powerful. It doesn't do code-completion for Javascript AFAIK, but it has a ton of useful little features.

Useful for more than just Unity too. (obviously)

[levelbylevel]

I'll maybe give the free trial a go (though I'm a little scared I might really like it and be down €50  )

I fired up my windows box last night to give C# (with VS2008 Express) a go, loved it from the start and spent the rest of the night converting over my project to C#. It meant having to replace the messenger function you use in your tutorials with the CSharpMessenger Extended [Link] system I found on the unify community wiki.

Seeing as I spend most of my time on mac though I copied the project back over and ran it with Monodevelop, was much easier than I'd anticipated since Monodevelop let's you open the .sln file unity creates. I'm a happy programmer now

Cheers guys for your suggestions

[Alec]

Sweet.

[deathtotheweird]

Just thought I'd mention this UnityScript Editor (javascript) over on the unity forums:
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=51129
windows only, I'm afraid. I think it's a better solution than the flashdevelop hack if you're using javascript in unity.

[Alec]

whoa, i gotta check this out.

[increpare]

Just running through these tutorials now.  They're proving helpful.  Thank you : )

[kessler]

Alec great tutorials man. I will fiddle with this when I get home. Thank you for sharing.

[brian]

With regards to MonoDevelop and C#, it's really going to be worth switching over more than it already is when 3.0 comes out, they're adding in support for MonoDevelop breakpoints and debugging which is a really handy feature. I think in general it's good to switch to C# as soon as you're comfortable as it makes using .NET features much easier as well as all the benefits C# has to offer, like delegates and events and whatnot.

[Alec]

Oddly enough, I've never run into a case where I've wanted a debugger for Unity.

I guess I'm lucky.