1. Welcome!
Day1, Lesson 1

2. Camp Rules Have fun Don’t interfere with other people’s fun
Don’t let yourself get frustrated…
…if you are, ask for help.
Don’t interfere with other people’s fun
No making fun of others
Tell me if I can change the course.
This is the first time I’ve done this – many mistakes ahead!
Don’t get food on my keyboards

3. About US Me (Jason): Casey Finlay Game Programming @ SSU for 10 years
Avid gamer (single-player only!)
Love teaching about / making games
Nothing commercial
Casey …
Finlay

4. About you… Tell us your name What school you go to Either:
One of your favorite games.
What you want to be when you “grow up”

5. My goal for the camp Get you interested in making games
Get you interested in programming
Expose you to cutting edge (free) tools for making games
Fun!
Things I considered:
“Raw” Programming
Python
C/C++
Unreal
Unity

6. atlas [Give out logins] Save only to: Sharing files Z: Desktop
MyDocuments
(not C: )
Sharing files
Better: SVN, Perforce, Git, etc.
For us: Flash Drives

7. Reference: Unity’s roll-a-ball tutorial
Unity introduction
Reference: Unity’s roll-a-ball tutorial

8. interface Start it up! Hierarchy: a Scene Graph
Parent-child relationships
Project: collection of assets
Inspector:
View / create components
Edit component properties
Scene / Game view: the current scene
Warning: don’t do big things in game mode!
Render mode
Lighting mode

9. View manipulation
Hand-tool selected (Q to enable, W to switch to move):
Left-drag to pan
Right-drag to rotate
Any:
‘F’: Frame selected object (or double-click name)
Right-click + WASD + QE
Scroll-wheel to zoom
Click on axes “cones” to switch to 2d view
Click on central box to toggle perspective / ortho

10. Object manipulation [Add a 3d cube]
W, E, R toggle translate, rotate, scale
Local / Global button
Numeric values
[Break for 10 minutes]

11. Scripting overview What’s it for? Basic process
Without: static objects that do nothing – boo!
Determine what a game object does and when it does it.
Examples:
Handle collisions
Start background music when level starts
Update a gui when points are earned. …
A taste of “real” programming.
Basic process
Create a new script asset (text file)
Attach to one or more game objects
Add / edit functionality to / in script
Test in Unity
Go back to step 3 until finished.

12. Scripting overview [Create a C# script and edit]
Documentation: Highlight item, then…
Visual Studio: Ctrl + Alt + M, then Ctrl + H
MonoDevelop: Ctrl + ‘
Example:
Make a player object controlled by input axes
Make a pickup prefab and trigger removal on hits.

13. Next step Lunch! After lunch: Look at 3d modelling in Blender
Create something more interesting than cubes and spheres!

14. Blender introduction
Day1, Lesson 2

15. What is it? A free tool that contains
3d modelling tools
Texturing / sculpting tools
Rendering tools
Video editing tools
Game-Engine
Not (yet) used as much in game development as:
Autodesk Maya ($1500 / year / seat)
Autodesk 3ds Max ($1500 / year / seat)
Autodesk Mudbox ($120 / year / seat)
(see the pattern <cough> monopoly <cough>)

16. Part I: Interface You’ll either hate it or love it… View Navigation
[Overview of panes, re-configuring]
Mdrag = Tumble
Mdrag + Shift = Pan
ScrollWheel = zoom
Numpad:
5: toggle ortho / perspective
1: Front
3: Right
7: Top
9: Back
2 / 8 / 4 / 6: rotate by increments
.: frame selected

17. Part II: selecting and transforming
[Positioning 3d cursor]
[creating primitives]
[transforming visually and numerically]
[joining]

18. Part III: edit-mode [Switching modes] [Selecting parts]
[Extrude, duplicate]
[Knife]
[Merging vertices]
[Face create]

19. Part IV: Materials
Solid-color materials

20. Part V: Export to Unity
Just save it in your assets folder…with a few tweaks:
rotate such that +x is to the right, +y is up, and +z is towards you.
Object => Transform => Apply Transformation
Export as .blend file:
Save / copy blend file into Assets folder
In Unity, remove any rotation.
Try editing it after your first import.

21. Part VI: Make something
Spaceship
Sword
House
Tree
Gun
Jetpack
Stick-figure …