New to Unity (87489)

[Savish]

So I come from the days of RPG Maker, VX Ace specific - for those familiar with the platform you can create sness like games for windows. Now I know unity is 800x more complicated then some drag and drop and some quick logical scripts and ruby scripts. what I don’t know is if I can use unity to create the same TYPE of games, 2d sness based games.

I have character assets that are designed for RPG Maker, so left, back, right, front - and I have created a couple maps in photoshop doing what we call parallax mapping (its where you create the bottom layer, so the layer the player walks on, it has collision which you set up in the game editor, and a top layer (the layer the player walks behind) - In rpg maker there are scripts to connect the two maps using whats called over lay, the top part of the map, the part the players walk behind, is called the over lay). this type of mapping gives a sens of depth and realism.

I am curious how hard it would be to import that kind of mapping style to unity to create games with and how hard it would be to use the assets, such as the character models, in unity. I have read that unity is supporting 2d gaming …???

I am a software developer by trade, my languages include C#, AS 3.0, PHP (love the language), ruby (generic) and rails (web framework). as well as jquery, javascript (generic) and various databases. So the software side of this program is no issue to me, what is - is the 3d modeling and asset creation - that’s why I thought, why not use what assets I have from another game engine and bring them to unity.

So My questions are:

Is this possible?
If it is not possible, how can one person like me create a game in unity with no 3d modeling experience? - I assume this platform is designed for companies and teams of people as opposed to one person?
what is the learning curve of unity - some one coming from a platform like RPG Maker?

[Stormizin]

Unity actually is supporting 2D games with awsome tools like “slice” for sprites, that you can separate the positions of an animation and then use a Animator Controller to specify when the character should change the sprite position, and a other 2d tools.

I actually work with unity for years and will be very hard to make a 3d game without modeling and trying to search free models in the web. I’ve worked with RPG Maker too, and the unity it’s a great upgrade that you can made to start your develop and own system game.

All that i can say its Good Luck, you will need good and sync size, quality etc models to make your game beautiful. Actually i recommend you to start learning unity 2d.

Ever you need help, ever, search here in answers and make your questions.

Good Luck!!