Update: Finally I got the sound and Mecanim animations work!! Thanks to the Lynda tutorial. This assignment was very straightforward. Adding sounds to a scene and making it 3D is intuitive in Unity and very easy. During this assignment I started working on my final project. My idea for the final project is finalized and I thought it would be good idea to start adding interactivity sounds in the project using this assignment. I wanted to start triggering animations and sounds using the mecanim component and script. But boy, it...

Assignment 4 was really the one where I have started working on my final project and the skeleton of the final project has started taking shape. I utilized the assignment to dig further in Mecanim Animator component in unity, scripting, effects, controllers as well as making models in Fuse. I created protagonist of my story using Fuse. He is a regular dude with a penchant for space exploration and goes by the name of 'Shiva' (at least thats what I am calling him for now). He lands on this planet called as...

I finished reading 'Slaying the Dragon' a couple of days ago, and I am glad I did.The book is not only about art of storytelling in games; but is a very good guide to the process of game design.It is an interesting/informative/fun read and although the book could be read in a weekend I would suggest to take your time to read it as it gives you time to think over the points that it makes. The principles in the book are directly applicable to any form of storytelling that one is...

The prospect of adding interactivity to a Unity scene immediately makes you wonder about the possibilities. And Playmaker makes it easy to do. After an initial look at Playmaker it feels like it would be a lot easy to add basic interactivity to the scene without coding at all. Getting familiar with all the options in Playmaker GUI is all you need. The tutorials by Irfaan Uraizee really helped me get started with Playmaker. I went through all 5 tutorials, and then I was able to add basic interactivity without any major hurdles. One of...

Today was the first time that I was able to experience Virtual Reality equipments' potential and the current state of development. I experienced a couple of different VR scenes and am fully convinced that the future has arrived. We still do not know all the use cases of this technology, as the technology is really in a infant stage. But as I experienced a couple of different scenes in Oculus VR Gear and Google cardboard (as well as saw my classmates experience it), I got to see first hand what works...