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The Homework Group: 1 year, 2 months ago · Viewno hw for AI this week, yay =)
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The Homework Group: 1 year, 2 months ago · ViewSo where exactly is the reading to do the home task due by this thursday? And Who is not in a group or needs a group member because I need to be in one
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The Homework Group: 1 year, 2 months ago · ViewYeah, IMO Doyle is evil for this one, Jk. Kind of. I know XNA is like kindergarten level programming but I’m a total n00b at coding regardless. If anyone else is having trouble, go to AC219 on Friday for extra help.
damn i missed the posting! ahh well i had a friend help out alittle anyway ( thankyou friend ♥)
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The Homework Group: 1 year, 2 months ago · Viewcosc 315 is having midterm. we take all the code made in class and convert it into our own unique videogame….and i only have a day to get this done ( because the other midterms are going to murder me)
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exiledskies posted an update in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 2 months ago · Viewfor ai in game design we need to take the item we had in class and transform them into paths that follow a map…finally we have no coding this week…woot!
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exiledskies posted on the forum topic 2/17 in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewai in game design delt with simple pathing systems, our homework is to make a path with 5 different checkpoints and at the final check point we need to slow to a stop….
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exiledskies started the forum topic 2/17 in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewgame project 2 is now moving primarily into work time, everyone should know their individual tasks.
as for our group, we're hoping to have a working prototype within 3 weeks * cries*
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exiledskies posted an update in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewdoes anyone have any good unity references out there? im trying to make multiple targeting possible on a turret. except the only code i found is insanely advanced. it cant be the homework assignment
If you already know the structure of the code you’d use but are simply unsure of the syntax, the scripting reference is a great help – in the main window, just go to help->scripting reference
yeah, ive been looking stuff up on their. what i think i need is a really good book or a tutorial online. i seem to be failing at grasping unity
How familiar are you with scripting languages or programming in general? You might benefit by just finding some basic programming tutorials if you’re not really familiar with programming, because most of the knowledge learned from that is transferable.
yeah i may need that too. but not all programs use the exact same code right? untiy may use c one way while xna does somehting different right?
You’re in the AI class correct? You’d be using C# either way – the main differences arise from the fact that Unity runs on scripts, whereas in Visual Studio, you’d have to program in the visual elements and other stuff yourself. If there’s something specific you’re stuck on, I could try to help you, though I’d try to avoid giving you the answer entirely, for obvious learning reasons.
im personally against that kind of thing anyway.
i guess my biggest headache right now is figuring out the homework for the ai class.
nothing comes to mind in making an ai discover multiple targets and tagging someone as the primary target. theres a reference in the book. but it involves memory and some other crazy aspects…its clearly not what he wants.i wish he followed the book
Whoops, I wish I’d seen this a bit earlier – Since I know the primary target thing was a bonus objective, if you still want to know, the easiest way to accomplish this is to create a boolean variable and if it’s true, disallow your function to switch targets. When the target you’re locked on to leaves the targeting area or it dies, switch the variable back to false so you can lock on to another target.
i finally managed to figure most of it out. thanks for the ideas
unity answers definitely saved me!
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The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · ViewHow do you embed images on this site.
You do it using the IMG tag for html.
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exiledskies posted an update in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewim making a lbp level for my cosc 460 final. which social network aspects do you guys want to see?
Have a constant bombardment of text in the form of like lasers or something. Something that the player has to dodge. You know like make it a metaphor (like the feed) about trying to accomplish things while having to dodge all the crap our feeds throw at us.
lol. i like it
im personally think of adding that and maybe a huge twitter bird exploding in mid air.
oo maybe you activate a computer and get flooded with facebook statuses
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exiledskies started the forum topic chapter 4 in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewfor everyone in cosc 315: read chapter 4.
also, if you want to enjoy the next 2 weeks of class. do the chapter 4 at home this weekend.
if anyone gets stuck, post your comments here
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exiledskies started the forum topic ai in game design ( special topics) in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewthis weeks homework was to take our turret and help make it recognize which target is closer and aim at it. any ideas on how to get this part done?
i have no idea…..cant find much in the reference either
Well, in class, he gave us a method for finding the distance between two game objects – you can use that to continually compare the distances between objects in range.
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exiledskies posted an update in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewim seeing a couple different people now asking for coding help.
how about we just start posting questions?
ill start first, when your placing something in the first area of the script, i think its called a public class. since its separated from the draw and update section. does this mean its like a law that all the other sections have to follow? or does it just mean its a function that is happening all the time ( it has supremacy?)?
ok. someone corrected it for me. i was getting a little too far ahead. at first its purely like a dictionary definition. then from their it can turn into laws with whats written down below.
second question: is there anyway to make xna catch an error in the act?
like if you forget to capitalize something, is there anyway to make xna do it for you as you go. i know this treading toward usability concerns ( which xna barely has any of) but is there a setting i can just switch on?
it would make my day go a whole lot quicker then it is right now….
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exiledskies posted on the forum topic home work for 2nd week in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewi just read the read the clay shirky assignment and i now have a question. when theprinting press first came to the world and we now had many types of books being printed… was it a massive succes or did they immediately struggle with the idea of " is our book gonna sell?" the videogame [...]
I think the patterns are synonymous with content. Each medium has a general sense of what’s going to be good and what’s not (or what’s worth buying and what’s not). Kinect is stagnant because the Wii works just fine. Why go out and spend money for something that’s nearly the same? (sort of, lol) I think these ”blind” spots are more like a lack of creativity from producers rather than a lack of insight from consumers. So when there’s a dip in the creative process, people go out and buy some half-ass content because they crave something new, regardless of how it was rated by Entertainment Weekly or IGN.
theres a problem with the whole kinect thing though. unlike other ideas that clearly fit in the argument…they sold 5 million units within just a month ( or two).
also, im not sure it because we crave for games during a dry spell that we make the risk. im more bent on the idea its because we see the same thing over and over again. so when someone shows something that is even a little bit different ( regardless if we know it sucks) we give it a chance.back to the question though….. there are vast differences in the way people learned if something was good or not. back then you basically had word of mouth since news papers weren’t really big then ( no printing method yet). or maybe an author who succeeded would recommend one of his apprentices or something. while as of today we have mags,books,blogs,tv,radio, god you name it… we have it.
i guess what im asking is if their is a definable pattern
like if a new console is out, and its less then one year in the market, then sales wont go beyond a certain digit.at 2 years however, their is a massive increase
at 3 years, sales relatively stay the same , however a dip is expected
at 4 years, sales plummet.
has something like this always been around?
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exiledskies posted on the forum topic home work for 2nd week in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewalmost forgot
for cosc 315 we had to read chapter 2 i think….im not entirely sure.
and for 407 mission 2 is already up. dont forget to post your lol cat. and of course do the other assignments
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exiledskies posted on the forum topic home work for 2nd week in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewgame project 2 s homework was to read chapter 3 and prepare our game pitch idea. ( also need to form our individual teams).
we also need to start preparing our portfolio's
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exiledskies started the forum topic home work for 2nd week in the group
The Homework Group: 1 year, 3 months ago · Viewai in videogames has to read chapters 1,2 and part of 3. they also need to finish up the code that we started in class and fix the syntax errors
the class is certainly interesting. especially the conversation on the jeopardy computer from ibm
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