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[Reelya]

Recently I started studying a course which develops games in Unity using C#. Other Bay12ers are using it with JavaScript.

Gauging interest in a thread ... I was wondering how many fellow Unity developers, or those who would like to learn about it, we have here? This could be a place to share creations, collaborate on ideas, and swap code and tips.

[Araph]

I do Unity stuff, so I guess PTW and contribute at a later date.

[Orange Wizard]

I shall post with the intent of watching for further developments.

[Tylui]

Ptw! Lulz this post has no content! Suck it first page.

You know, op, wanting to help others code is fantastic. You're Reelya nice person, y'know?

EDIT:
I've wanted to tinker with Unity a few times now, and I just did a sizable project or two in c# at work so I'm looking forward to all the good stuff forthcoming to motivate me

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Posting to watch.

Ptw! Lulz this post has no content! Suck it first page.

You know, op, wanting to help others code is fantastic. You're Reelya nice person, y'know?

That's a terrible pun. You should feel bad.

[HavingPhun]

Unity can be used freely if it is for non-commercial purposes, correct? I am interested in porting the world generator I posted in the programming help thread to Unity, once I have the need for a mouse ui. From what I have seen, Unity makes it much easier to add ui's to programs, and I know for a fact that I am not going to program my own ui's from the ground up. Tried that, and it's not something I am willing to do.

Also, I haven't looked into it much yet, but there are obviously a plethora of other useful things that come from using Unity, over creating some things yourself.

[Tylui]

Posting to watch.

Ptw! Lulz this post has no content! Suck it first page.

You know, op, wanting to help others code is fantastic. You're Reelya nice person, y'know?

That's a terrible pun. You should feel bad.

I don't feel bad! That was the whole point! Another something off topic completely; my daughter's new Doctor is named Dr. Relyea

[Reelya]

Unity can be used freely if it is for non-commercial purposes, correct? I am interested in porting the world generator I posted in the programming help thread to Unity, once I have the need for a mouse ui. From what I have seen, Unity makes it much easier to add ui's to programs, and I know for a fact that I am not going to program my own ui's from the ground up. Tried that, and it's not something I am willing to do.

Also, I haven't looked into it much yet, but there are obviously a plethora of other useful things that come from using Unity, over creating some things yourself.

Yeah, you can use it freely for non-commercial development. Plus you can build out for many different devices and OS's, which is nice. So be able to stick your stuff on mobile with only a little extra work. I'm kinda busy and dog tired because I just did an all-nighter to finish an essay. But later I'm going to put together a release to show you guys. Hopefully on the weekend.

[Hugehead]

Unity can be used freely if it is for non-commercial purposes, correct? I am interested in porting the world generator I posted in the programming help thread to Unity, once I have the need for a mouse ui. From what I have seen, Unity makes it much easier to add ui's to programs, and I know for a fact that I am not going to program my own ui's from the ground up. Tried that, and it's not something I am willing to do.

Also, I haven't looked into it much yet, but there are obviously a plethora of other useful things that come from using Unity, over creating some things yourself.

Yeah, you can use it freely for non-commercial development. Plus you can build out for many different devices and OS's, which is nice. So be able to stick your stuff on mobile with only a little extra work. I'm kinda busy and dog tired because I just did an all-nighter to finish an essay. But later I'm going to put together a release to show you guys. Hopefully on the weekend.

You can even use it freely commercially as long as you earn less than US$100,000 annually from things you create in it. http://unity3d.com/legal/eula

[Solifuge]

Cool thread! I recently started using Unity to build a prototype that's been sitting in my head for a few years. Doing a bit of a Blog already, but I don't know how technical I'm going to get there. Could post source and such here as I go, if peeps are curious:
http://paraterra.blogspot.com/

That aside, I'd be happy to post here, share what I know, and all that. I'm still learning C# and Unity's idiosyncrasies, but I've got enough basic experience to at least help people get started. PTW, etc. etc.

[Reelya]

Interesting choice of octagon for the grid. I did something similar thing but chose a cube-mapped sphere. It's in C++ / OpenGL, but I'm going to look at porting the ideas into Unity. I prefer the cube mapping because each face is a square grid, which is easier for working with game stuff. Though there are 8 points on the grid where the corners hit 120 degrees rather than 90 degrees.

I'm kind of interesting in this one too:

https://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation

[Rose]

I do quite a bit of stuff in Unity, including a DF visualizer, so I would be remiss if I didn't post here.

I only use C# for unity, and have no idea how anybody can use anything else >_>

[Araph]

Most programming languages are pretty darn similar. If you're familiar with either C# or JavaScript, you can pretty much learn the other's syntax just by watching this video.

On that note, I watched that video and recorded the corresponding trio of videos for C# in a programming tutorial I'm working on. I should be able to have both the JavaScript and C# videos up tomorrow, if anyone's interested. It's pretty basic stuff, but I tried (maybe unsuccessfully) to make it helpful for beginners.

[Solifuge]

Interesting choice of octagon for the grid. I did something similar thing but chose a cube-mapped sphere. It's in C++ / OpenGL, but I'm going to look at porting the ideas into Unity. I prefer the cube mapping because each face is a square grid, which is easier for working with game stuff. Though there are 8 points on the grid where the corners hit 120 degrees rather than 90 degrees.

I'm kind of interesting in this one too:

https://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation

Neat link! Interesting how they inverted the Icosahedron to get non-triangular polygon faces, and turn those into intentionally irregular tiles. I like the wind/water/temp based biome generation system too... very nice.

I mostly chose the Octahedron for dividing neatly into equilateral triangle tiles that form hexagons, and for suffering a little less distortion than a Cube when sphericalizing them. I actually just put up another post that talks a bit about what I'm doing with that Octasphere to create a sort of volumetric hybrid heightmap/tile-based terrain system:

[Araph]

I recorded a series of videos on learning programming with Unity, if anyone's interested.

JavaScript
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

C#
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee that I'm not a terrible teacher.