Beginner needs help with Unity 3D

Unity Engine
1

Hello guys,

I am new to Unity Scripting as I am not a programmer, but an artist in real life. However, I am involved in a project that requires me to do the scripting for a game, but I don’t know where to start. I hope you could help me out a bit.

So the idea of the game is to have a lot of objects on some shelves in a lab. The view would be first-person, with only the crosshair being shown( so no hands or anything) . When the player looks towards any of the objects, a message with the key to be pressed in order to pick the object up should be displayed. Then if the object is picked-up it should move it in front of the player to give that illusion of picked up. Now the character should be able to freely move with that object and place it on a desk.

Then I need a script to recognize what objects are placed on that desk and compare them to a predefined list. If those match, something fancy should happen( still haven’t decided) and destroy the objects.

Is that something complex to do?

Thanks in advance!

2

There are some good tutorials here:
Don’t try to get too specific about a game until you have a general understanding, like the first 2 tutorials.
http://walkerboystudio.com/html/unity_training___free__.html#unity3game1

Also, it’s an older version so the particle system is different.

3

Thank you for that!

4

Sounds rather similar to our game, check it out in the my sig and I can help you out if you’d like to know how to do the whole carrying thing.

-Tom