so, i wan’t to make a first person driving game where the point is to run over as many people as possible within a certain time limit and beat other people’s score on a scoreboard . but because my programming skills are the worst, i don’t know how to achieve that. i tried searching online for tutorials but those dind’t help either. so now my only option is to ask the unity community for help and see if they know how to do it. by the way the person that helped me with this will get a shoutout in the game’s credits.
i’d start from these, you can find free ready to use car packages, so no need to program anything really,
just build your levels, drop in the car and can drive around:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unity+car+tutorial
once you get that part working, can continue to search how to use physics (colliders and rigidbody),
so can collect or push boxes with the car.
next is adding people, look for free 3d characters,
most likely they already react to car collision already.
then look for simple script that on collision turns the human into ragdoll,
and adds score.
for highscores, check free plugins for online leaderboards
Is this going to be desktop or mobile game?
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The purpose of this forum is to assist people who are ready to learn by doing, and who are unafraid to get their hands dirty learning how to code, particularly in the context of Unity3D.
This assumes you have at least written and studied some code and have run into some kind of issue.
If you haven’t even started yet, go check out some Youtube videos for whatever game design you have in mind. There are already many examples of the individual parts and concepts involved, as there is nothing truly new under the sun.
If you just want someone to do it for you, you need go to one of these places:
https://forum.unity.com/forums/commercial-job-offering.49/
https://forum.unity.com/forums/non-commercial-collaboration.17/
https://livehelp.unity.com/?keywords=&page=1&searchTypes=lessons
Fix the first part, then get busy! Start doing tons of tutorials. Here’s how:
Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:
How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:
Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.
Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE!!
If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.
Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.
Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.
Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.
Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!
Finally, when you have errors, don’t post here… just go fix your errors! Here’s how:
Remember: NOBODY here memorizes error codes. That’s not a thing. The error code is absolutely the least useful part of the error. It serves no purpose at all. Forget the error code. Put it out of your mind.
The complete error message contains everything you need to know to fix the error yourself.
The important parts of the error message are:
- the description of the error itself (google this; you are NEVER the first one!)
- the file it occurred in (critical!)
- the line number and character position (the two numbers in parentheses)
- also possibly useful is the stack trace (all the lines of text in the lower console window)
Always start with the FIRST error in the console window, as sometimes that error causes or compounds some or all of the subsequent errors. Often the error will be immediately prior to the indicated line, so make sure to check there as well.
Look in the documentation. Every API you attempt to use is probably documented somewhere. Are you using it correctly? Are you spelling it correctly?
All of that information is in the actual error message and you must pay attention to it. Learn how to identify it instantly so you don’t have to stop your progress and fiddle around with the forum.
Its going to be a pc game so mobile controls aren’t needed.
Excellent. That will narrow down your search. Get busy with the tutorials and/or the asset packages listed by mgear above. Be sure to use the steps I listed above, or as you put it…
Don’t worry, that’s a common complaint when people fail to use the 2-step process I listed above.
And the solution is… you guessed it! Use the 2-step tutorial process above! It has never failed, not even once.
HAHAhAHaHAHAHAAAA this is the BEST idea for a game i have EVER heard. i want to play this ASAP. if there is anything i can do to help dont hesistate to ask
Heh, I made this game on a VIC-20 back in the early '80s. You can use my game’s name, HOOD ORNAMENT.
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to quote AVGN “wtf is a vik 20?” hahahahahahHAAH.
HOOD ORNAMENT now that is a great title.