Official NEW! Creator Kit: Beginner Code

Okay..Lets Learn..On standard way

 

Can't find it in my projects tab, my friends have the same problem. I can find the previous ones tho

 

got the same problem i think its the unity version i have installed. going to install reccommend version

edit:- nope i dont see it in the list still

 

Hi there, for some reason I am also unable to find the project in my unity hub, is there an alternative manner to download the project?

 

Hi, We've updated the links on the forum post as well as added the project to the Learn Tab on the Hub

 

I think there is a step missing. After we implement the myLootAngle constructor, there is no explanation as to how to use this in the Spawn function to actually set the new angles. Either it's missing or I am blind.
I managed to figure it out, but it was pretty frustrating, because I did not know, if I had made a mistake.

 

Hi Aurore, thanks for the update. I am able to see the project under the projects tab but it has no option for me to create an instance of that project, when I click open in unity from the website it shows me the project but no download for the files, just view tutorials.

 

Hi,

This is fixed now, you can also download the assets from the link on the tutorial page



Also from the Asset Store here https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/creator-kit-beginner-code-151986

 

Hi Aurore,

I am able to see it now. Though it took a little longer than expected, as in I read the post and then went back and forth and option was still missing, if somehow possible its still a glitch or my unity hub did not sync correctly, what I did before it showed me the button, I created another project and clicked through asset store to download and then when I opened unity hub again, under projects when I clicked on it, it showed me the option to download project. (In case anyone else in similar boat as me at the time.)

Thank you for your help, much appreciated.
Regards

 

The project looks great, but I'm facing some problems with the terrain.

When I open the scene, depending of the angle I'm facing, the terrain appears to be rotated.
And in game, I cannot see the terrain.

Any ideas of what could it be ?

 

Your Scene view is showing the Game User Interface (GameObject “GameUI” in Hierarchy).

In Hierarchy, select GameObject “MikeMoose” from Character dropdown, move your cursor over the Scene view and press the F key.

 

The problem is with the terrain, not the UI.

 

Why not using an enum on Attributes ? (strength, dexterity and so on)

 

Caught a small typo on Introduction to Classes - Step 4
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/in...025dedbc2a0020e85be2#5d4c30c0edbc2a001f6372d4

"You can access different these variables in the hierarchy using a period or full stop; this is called a dot operator."

 

Just finished the tutorial! Very cool stuff, C# is one matryoshka nesting doll of a concept very cool!
Thank You Unity!

 

That's great - Thank you for sharing!

 

wouldnt a video tutorial more efficient instead of a written one?

 

You are right Devision4 - I do agree with you!

 

Download gives errors and doesnt run

 

Gamepad support would be awesome with this.

 

I'm trying to find out how "AttackEvent" and "FootstepEvent" in AnimationControllerDispatcher. I tried adding my own enemy, but it does not get these triggered... I have been checking it up and down to match the game object or if it's in the animation controller, simply can't find references for "Footstep" anywere. Please help

 

Oh whoops, I found it by using Total Commander search, it's baked into the animation

Example from: CactusBossy_Walk

 

I really liked it, but i want to enlarge the map. i tried to remove some grass and paint the sand on it but i can't walk there?
How can i walk on that terrain?

 

Hey there. So I'm totally new to this and trying to get through this kit. I've encountered an issue I'm having a heck of a time resolving.

In part 10, the create parameters for the constructor portion, step 4 says to go change

LootAngle myLootAngle = new LootAngle();

to

LootAngle myLootAngle = new LootAngle(15);

Then immediately on part 11 it seems to indicate changing that to

LootAngle spawnAngle = new LootAngle(45);

Is that what it's saying to, or am I supposed to be adding this in addition to the existing one?

Here is what my start function looks like based on the steps in the tutorial.


void Start();
LootAngle myLootAngle = new LootAngle(15);

LootAngle spawnAngle = new LootAngle(45);

//every call will advance the angle!
potionSpawn(spawnAngle.NextAngle());
potionSpawn(spawnAngle.NextAngle());
potionSpawn(spawnAngle.NextAngle());
potionSpawn(spawnAngle.NextAngle());

It feels wrong and has several errors I don't quite understand. Any insight would be great.

Personally, at the end of this part it would be nice to see the full script as it should look so I know where I made my mistakes.

Thanks!

 

Discovered my problem! The wording of one of the steps seemed to have me put the following outside of the SpawnerSample class.


void SpawnPotion(int angle)
{
int radius = 5;

Vector3 direction = Quaternion.Euler(0, angle, 0) * Vector3.right;
Vector3 spawnPosition = transform.position + direction * radius;
Instantiate(ObjectToSpawn, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
}

Move it move it into the class below the Start function and everything was better!

Thanks!

 

I'm working on expanding this using resources from Synty Studios' Western and Western Frontier Packs, and animations from Explosive's RPG Character Animation Pack.

As someone noted above, the Attack animation that is built in to the Tutorial uses an Animation Event to indicate when a hit has occurred, and this calls CharacterControl.AttackFrame().AttackFrame does several things, but probably the most important is that it sets the player's stateback to Default. So without this, the CharacterControl.CheckAttack() function thinks we're still attacking, so the player can never attack after the first one!

To deal with this, we can add an Animation Event called AttackEvent to our animations, BUTthe RPG Pack actually comes to our rescue because EVERY attack has a Hit() Animation Event built in ANDtimed correctly!

So I just created a Hit() function here, and then copied the body of the AttackEvent() function!

The Run animation that the Tutorial uses *also* relies on an Animation Event to kick up dust as you run along, but AGAIN the RPG Animation pack saves our bacon, with the FootL() and FootR() functions.This is actually arguably better, since you can (if you want) explicitly determine which foot is hitting the ground and exactly when! I didn't do anything weird with the different feet here. I just copiedand pasted the body of FootstepEvent() into FootR() and FootL() functions, and it now correctly kicks up dust for my cowgirl!

NEAT!

So now a question: the SeethroughBlue shader has some really funky effects when applied to the Synty character models, most likely because there are some occluded triangles within the mesh, which causes the shader to kick in even when the character is standing out in the open. Is there any way to deal with that, or am I just more or less stuck with disabling it? It's such a NICE effect, but it looks terrible if the model isn't optimized.

I've also gotten a pistol to work nicely, but so far have not found a way to quickly switch weapons in game. I'm controlling my animations using a WeaponID parameter, which I suppose I should bake into the Weapon stats Scriptable Object, and add to a script, but I haven't worked that out yet (at present I switch it manually in the Editor).

This is a REALLY good kit, with lots of great systems built in. I switched out the Mike Moose model for a cowgirl from the Western pack, and was pleasantly surprised when she appeared in my Inventory screen without me having to figure out how that was done!

Oh, if you're going to switch out the main character for one of your own, you'll need to do a few things:

- Create an Animator Controller, since Mike Moose's animations are specific to him. You can (and probably should!) copy his Animator Controller, and just swap out the animations, though.
- Copy every component from the Character object in the Example Scene onto an empty game object (mine's called Character_Player_Cowgirl)
- Make your character model the child of that empty game object
- Remember to assign an Animation Controller Dispatcher to your character model!
- Create an empty game object that's a child of Character_Player_Cowgirl (or whatever you call yours) and rename it to CameraTarget
- Update GameplayVCAM (a Cinemachine Virtual Camera) to Follow and Lookat the new Camera Target object
- Update Managers->SFX Manager to make the Listener Target your new Camera Target
- Update Managers->UIRoot->GameUI to set the Character_Player_Cowgirl to be the new Player Character

There may be more, but so far everything is humming along swimmingly.

This thing is a lot of fun!!

 

Just calling AttackEvent() from inside your new Hit function should work the same and will allow you to have a single place (the AttackEvent function) to modify

Oh, that's brilliant! Gah! Why don't I think of these things??

So make sure all your new character materials have that same queue set (can be set per material, don't have to write a special shader for it).

Hmm... I'm using the LWRP Lit Shader, and that doesn't appear to be one of the exposed settings (I am shader illiterate, so pardon me if I'm not using the right words here). I tried switching to the same shader that Mike uses (ShaderGraph/MainRimShaderGraph) and that does kind of work, but I did still get weird blue artifacts when the character is facing away from the camera. Then I realized that there was a setting called Rim Color in that shader, and setting that to black (and the Render Queue to 2099) seems to have resolved my issue!

Indeed, just add it to the Scriptableobject

Brilliant! I'll let you know how it goes!

 

I think I found a typo. In CharacterData the Comment says "Agility reduce by 0.5% the cooldown to attack (e.g. if agility = 50, 25% faster to attack)"

The code says:

If you take a weapon with a speed of 1, and use the example agility of 50, this results in a new modified cooldown of 0.975.

I think there's just an extra zero in the second float. If we change that to 0.01f, the new modified cooldown (of a speed of 1 and an agility of 50) is 0.75, which is a 25% reduction, and matches the Comment.

 

As pointed out in the comments section in the tutorial, you can't save the project by pressing Ctrl + S, or from File > Save As... Ctrl + S will save the scene, not the project. There should be a File > Save Project As..., but there isn't. The only way to save your own copy of the project is by quitting the editor and then selecting Keep.

This is very frustrating until you discover this. Like probably many other newcomers I spent quite some time until I discovered how to save my own copy of the project. Until you fix this is in the Unity editor, at least update the tutorial instructions which should be quick workaround.

 

Hi guys I am trying this days to use creator kit beginner code to make my character move attack and collect. At the beginning everything works fine until a few seconds later he starts to walk in the direction I want but facing the wrong way so he looks like he is sliding and everything starts to be a mess.Did anyone manage to make it work? Does it has anything to do with me using a plane as an example and not a terrain? Because even when I use mike's avatar and animations to my character even if it isn't animating everything is working good and he is walking correctly but not when I use my avatar and animations for some reason.

 

I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the lightweight render pipeline. Probably incompatibility with your OS or graphics driver. Facing the same problems using Ubuntu.

Changing terrain material doesn't fix it for me. Had to disable lightweight pipeline (remove pipeline asset from Project Settings > Graphics) and assign the default terrain material to the terrain object. Sadly you have to reconfigure all materials to use Standard shader, as the shaders used seem to be incompatible with default pipeline. Have no solution for the outlines yet, and haven't checked if all particles are compatible with standard particle shader.
Hard grind to get it working, of course look (and performance) differs a lot from intended version.
I hope the pipeline get's fixed for "not windows users"

edit: haven't tried to fix the pipeline itself yet, maybe i will try that too

 

I was able to get it to work just fine using some low poly cowboy models from Synty, and the RPG Animation set from Explosive. I didn't change the terrain, though, for my experiments, but I can't think of how changing it to a plane would affect anything (assuming that the Navigation got baked for the plane, which it would have to since the player moves with a NavMeshAgent).

I didn't have any problems seeing the terrain in the game (or with it being rotated).

After playing with it for a few days, I dropped this, but I did manage to implement shooting for both the player and the enemies. I got stuck when I tried to fiddle with the inventory, because I couldn't figure out how to let the player choose between various weapons (by default, your regular weapon is replaced when you pick up a new one, and you can't drop the one you have).

Still, I found the framework to be pretty flexible to a point.

 

I am making a game where you use abilities and new weapons but their use is time based so you have to use wisely your new weapons with better stats or the abilities or you will wait for the cooldown in order to collect a power up card to use so maybe you will find a way with a script and a philosophy of yours to make it to work since you do not have a way to discard by the kit.
One more question I downloaded the rpg animation pack what changes should I make to use the animations? Because I want to use a generic character to play generic animations instead of humanoid , like the character in the kit.

 

First, I'm using a humanoid rig. This makes retargeting animations work.

Generic animations are typically used for a specific model, so you can't retarget them to a different model (unless they happen to have the exact same skeleton and rig).

Rig a humanoid character, copy the existing controller, and replace the animations with those from the rpg animation pack.

If I were you, I'd start with one of the simpler packs to learn the basics of character movement and controls (there's one where you make a stealth game about a cat in a house that will get you up to speed).

 

Hello Professionals,
I started the Creator Kit: Beginner Code course after experimenting with unity software and got stuck in the last "customization" class.

One of the tasks I was tasked with was to remove one unit from the inventory when the bool true was used.
And in the second task of this task if the player's life is full the potion will not be used and no bool false will be removed.

What should I think of when writing variables and classes?

 

Nice tutorial, can you please give a example how you would add more "advanced" status effects? For example some ideas what I mean:
- Damage Shield is added with a start value and everytime the character takes damage it reduces the damage until the shield is at zero and is removed or the duration is done
- Damage Spikes, everytime the character takes damage a part of the damage is returned to the attacker until the duration is done

My current idea would be to extend the StatSystem Damage method and add some events there for example OnDamage event and OnPostDamage event and pass the attack data as event args (similar to the weapon effects, but as events instead of direct method calls, so "any" object can modify/observe the damage).

Then the status effects (or any other object, for example a quest system which wants to keep track of damage dealt or enemy killed etc) could add event handler and modify/observe the damage.

This this a valid/good solution or would you recommend a different solution for status effects which want to modify the damage?

 

I went to terrain->TerrainSandCity in the hierarchy, then to the gear wheel in the inspector, then under basic terrain I unchecked "draw instanced". This fixed it for me.

 

For the shield effect, I'd introduce a new value that works exactly the same as health. Add a new stat in StatSystem.Stats called "shield", and implement all of the same calls that can impact health within the Modify and Copy functions. Also, add a new version of ChangeHealth called ChangeShield.

Then in StatSystem.Damage, add a check at the beginning to see if "shield" still has any points left, and, if so, and then just call ChangeShield instead. If you want the damage to "spill over" (the player has 2 shield points left, takes 5 damage total, so remove 2 shield and then remove 3 health), you can just call ChangeHealth inside of ChangeShield for the difference!

For the Damage Spikes... hm... there's a couple of different ways to do it, but you could add a boolean to Stats called damagespikes. Then, inside Damage, before ChangeHealth (let's leave shield out of this, just for clarity), add a second int called damageSpikeDamage that calculates a fraction of totalDamage (making sure that your math results in an integer!).

The tricky part is that all Attacks in this framework have to originate with a Weapon, so you'll have to create a special weapon called DamageSpikes, and then call an attack with THAT weapon (instead of the player's current weapon). That might be a little involved to set up, but once you get the hang of the layout of the kit, I'm sure you can sort out how to make it happen!

Okay, I gotta get back to working on my own game...

Good luck!

EDIT: Also, all of this is just the actual logic to set up these effects. You should still give the player some feedback: a visual effect so the shield can be seen, some way for the player to know how much shield is left, some way for the player to "recharge" their shield (or to show it recharging over time), etc.

Also, I've heavily edited the code at this point to accomodate some of the things I wanted to include. Since my characters are shooting at each other, I wanted the pistols to be able to miss occasionally, and that sort of thing. In the course of setting that up, I may well have modified the normal attack functions, so if something above doesn't make sense, it's probably because I'm looking at my modified code instead of the base code. Just FYI!!

 

Hello All

Seems like this is the place to get things looked at...

I am pretty recent to Unity and am (despite my years) really enjoying the vibrance and enthusiasm in this area ( I am looking at Blender and ploughing through as many tutorials and projects as my data allowance and time allow.
I thorougly enjoyed the "Cactus Gulch" creator kit ( not my actual name for it but suitable for public use) and completed it in a few days once starting it - what with reviewing and revising what was being taugh.

My only gripe is it stops a bit abrubtly - one minute i am making inventory items and custmising included ones ( great way of teaching the concept of don't re-invent the wheel and make your code adaptable enough to be reusable) ,
the next minute finish!. I am looking forward to resolving this issue but some indication that I will have to re use and re-work what I have already done to get my new consumable inventory item(s) would not have gone amiss and how I implement and make a weapon available to the moose I don't have a clue... I will get there... It is just a bit scary stepping out from the comfort and reassurance of the community. Just a final note as many of the Unity tutorials I have looked at seem like this may help less experienced coders by suggesting things they could do to progress.

 

The project is opened and the assets are there, but they're not in the project at all. They're not in the hierarchy tab. How do I put them into the project?

 

As soon as i open the project there are problem and as i have just started unity i have no idea on how to fix them .

 

Version Unity : 2019.2.21f1

 

me too

 

Hi I'd really like to build this but I constantly get 34 errors. My main field is sound design. Is there a way you can release tutorials to remove these errors so a build can be made?

 

I would love to try this out but I cant get past the first step. The program wont let me run the sample scene due to the errors.