Looking for someone very experienced who I can ask questions.

Learn Content
1

I’m a professional web developer. I’ve made games too, a while ago, mostly 2D (flash, html5).

I have a lot of questions, and of course I know how to Google, but honestly, I don’t like most of the answers I’m getting. It seems Unity isn’t built for programmers.
The last thing I looked up, I found multiple answers to, all of which were messes. I ended up using my own solution, which was better than what I found, but I still didn’t like it. So yeah, it’d be great to have someone experienced to IM. Basically just questions about best practices.
I really like clean code… I’m actually working on my own programming language.

If for whatever reason you want to know about some web stuff (database/PHP/javascript) I know what’s up there.
Hopefully we’re able to help each other out!

2

Of course it is. You won’t get anywhere without programming.

–Eric

3

What? I said nothing about that.

What I’m trying to say is, the programming seems to be more friendly to non-programmers.
The answer to doing most things is “just copy paste this snippet in a new script and drag it onto your object”
There’s no main function, and just snippets all over. So I’m like, “how am I supposed to make a structured anything with this.”
Probably I just don’t understand how Unity works; but that’s my point. It’s not like normal programming environments.

4

You’ve got to start at the beginning. Lots of tutorials, but once you start working with it like this you’ll love it.

For scripts that you add to a game object you can use the Update function that is called every frame. It’s pretty simple and very object oriented.

Check out the MonoBehaviour class.

5

Feel free to private message me your skype.

I Could use some web dev knowledge :wink: in exchange i’ll answer questions regarding Unity and programming.

best,

6

I’m usually all for tutorials. But the ones I’ve been finding just aren’t doing things the way I want to.
I’m doing a lot of procedural generation, not using the UI for level design at all.
Probably I need to look for text tutorials and not youtube videos. /:

7

Yeah you are right. There is not a lot on the subject. Check this thread out though.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/199358-Modelling-by-numbers-An-introduction-to-procedural-geometry

Some pretty interesting tutorials on procedural geometry. Maybe a starting point at least.

8

I am very experienced with Unity. If you have any questions that you can’t find a good answer to on the web, PM me and I’ll help you out.

9

Here’s a perfect example of me trying to look something up, and not being able to find an answer I like.

I asked this question in other places too, including the IRC channel.

The way everyone does GameObject Instantiation seems stupid to me.