Create a complete game WITHOUT ANY CODING with the Brain Builder plugin

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We will create a complete small game WITHOUT ANY CODING with the great Brain Builder plugin of Boldai. http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/104357-Brain-Builder-A-new-take-on-visual-scripting

Look at their video FIRST !!! To discover the concept and to learn some tricks : drag and drop slots, copy-paste slots,…

On my first video here, you can learn how to move a spaceship in 4 directions for a game on the side view : (I use the free cartoon spacecraft from the assets store.)

TIPS :

  • Select “Transform” for the public slot in the inspector because we will change the Transform position !
  • Use the 4 arrows of the keyboard to move the spaceship ! We have to change the z value to go to the left or the right (and not the x value) because we have rotated the spaceship y = 90 !

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…Or you could spend 30 seconds typing.

Just kidding, that is amazing. This is the kind of thing I was looking for when I was very bad at the logic of game stuff. This allows you to build your logic without problem. Amazing job. I like it :smile:.

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kewl! n__n

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If you could explain what you are doing that would be nice. Everything is so far away. I can’t even see what you are clicking.

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@ killer1390 : :):):slight_smile: and thanks.

@ namoricoo : Please, look at the video directly on Youtube and at full screen… I used high resolution ! So you should see good enough what happens…

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Wow! Really cool! This visual editor is really awesome :slight_smile:

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Yes… It’s cool because it’s easy, funny to use and I think the “contact” between the slots very “proper” !

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Your example make use of Vector3 :smile:, so a user should know that for moving up he needs to enable the y component of the vector. Not quite without coding eh :smile:?

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That doesn’t involve coding so much as math.

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^ Very simple math at that.

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Yeah maybe sometime someone comes up with a solution that enables monkeys to write games… (nothing against monkeys though)

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Love it! Then again, I may be biased :slight_smile:

I second namoricoo’s suggestion. Perhaps add speech, or subtitles in the screen casting software, or use YouTube’s built-in labels.

When I recorded my screen cast I reduced the window size to 1280x720. A bit cramped, but a simple trick to make the text easier to read.

Can’t wait for the next episode!

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@ scarpelius : You’re right ! Vector3 isn’t a simple thing for new users…

@ MrBurns : :):):slight_smile: It’s why I can use it !!!

@ Martin : I’d prefer you add a “comments” flat slot ! So I could add comments to the slots I create directly in your editor ! Is it possible ?
Not only for tutorials but for users. it’s important to be able to add some notes when we create games.

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Extremely simple math.

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Very cool!

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Awesome job! This reminds me of a program called “Scratch”, except this is a lot more advanced!

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when I record my videos I use Quicktime on Mac. If I try to import my quicktime file on Youtube it will have no sound. That’s why I switched over to Vimeo. In the past I had to convert my Quicktime video with iMovie before uploading to Youtube. If you want to save yourself some Aggravation. You can do what I did.

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This.

Mainly because I keep forgetting how to code.

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Here is my second video :
We will learn to shoot an object (missile) to the right with the B key. Each missile will be destroyed after 3 seconds.

Comments :

  • I use a simple stretched sphere for the missile (Here as Transform) ! So everybody can do it… I translate the sphere to the right (Vector3 = direction here !). We will add material later, in a next video.
  • I use an empty object (without collider) for the missile launcher instead of shooting from the spaceship to avoid collisions between the ship and the missiles.
  • I instantiate (= create) an object (missile ! Here as Gameobject !) from the position of the missile launcher (not the ship) and without rotation in the world (= Quaternion identity)
  • With object1 is object2 (builtin), I create and will destroy missile clone and not the original missile only. You can change the delay for the destruction… I have used 3 seconds.
  • Just rename object1 by typing what you want. To drag and drop the “newmissile” into the destroy block, just Shift+Ctrl+Drag it with the mouse. Don’t forget to “glue” the destroy block to the instantiate block to bound the variable “newmissile”.

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