So, my process. I started working on this a couple of weeks ago. The very first thing i learned how to make was an animated firefly in Unity. I've never had any experience working in Unity, and I have little experience animating anything, though i understand the concept. This took me three days to get right. It was a lot of trial and error, but, it was a huge milestone when I did. It made me use a lot of elements in Unity, so the process taught me about the heirarchy, the inspector, the project window, asset uploading, the animator, creating scripts, and just the general flow of Unity. I have been communicating with Copilot to teach me these things. It has been really a wonderful tool. It can draw images, slice them for you, create sprite sheets, make backgrounds transparent for uploads. Some may have a disdain for AI generated things, I get it. I used to as well, but, to me its just a tool. It saves me a bunch of time and it is a skill to communicate properly with AI interfaces to get exactly what you are looking for. I'm much more computer savy than I am artistically gited, especially since i've lost a portion of my functional vision. In any case, this is my first post, I just wanted to put some basic info on my current process so far.
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So, still working bit by bit for my character creation screen. Sometimes getting the logic right to get Unity to do what i want can be a bit frustrating, but hey, going from literally having no experience working in it to where I am now, have to say im proud of myself. I hope people enjoy the game when i'm all done with it. I have a long way to go, but i'm proud of hte progess i've made. Cheers all.
Just wanted to document a little bump in the road. Since I am legally blind, i usually require special things to help me do all this. One being a PC that is suited for my needs. This current PC is doing the trick, but wont be able to long term. So, there is a place where people who are blind or legally so can get assistive things to keep them working. Computers, screen readers, software, visual devices, etc. I had reached out to my worker, Derek Voltz is his name, and let him know that I was pursuing my own work with develping my own video game. He laughed at me, and said that those services were people who are employed.... I was like. I do intend to market and sell this game when im done. He was like. umm. yup.. So, I am going to make sure after this is all said and done, to include Mr. Voltz in my credits as a contributor for letting me know what "Employment" looks like... I do also work from home by the way. I'm a foster dad, and run a successful dog boarding business. So, in any case. Just wanted to document the road bump, I will use this PC as long as it allows.
So, i'm getting close to a new milestone in my character creation page. I have the basic layout almost done. Next I will have to learn how to link all the buttons to the character previewer, then make sure that my order transfers over to a new game. I also have to make sure its set up to save all the information. One step at a time as they say.
So, this is a screenshot of my title screen so far.