1 00:00:03,180 --> 00:00:03,719 In this lecture. 2 00:00:03,719 --> 00:00:08,160 We're going to take a moment just to put up our level a little bit, to add some trees and clouds and 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,760 do a little bit of extra tuning so that we're happy with where the game is at the moment. 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,050 So let's get started. 5 00:00:13,290 --> 00:00:16,100 It's very important to tune your game every now and again. 6 00:00:16,110 --> 00:00:21,540 Importantly, it keeps your game playable as much as possible and it improves the look and feel of your 7 00:00:21,540 --> 00:00:23,130 game on a regular basis. 8 00:00:23,130 --> 00:00:26,910 So you're not waiting until the very end of your project before you say, Hmm, maybe now I'll make 9 00:00:26,910 --> 00:00:27,550 it look pretty. 10 00:00:27,570 --> 00:00:28,880 Why are these things important? 11 00:00:28,890 --> 00:00:30,540 Well, these things help us. 12 00:00:30,540 --> 00:00:32,009 First of all, keep motivated. 13 00:00:32,009 --> 00:00:37,710 I find that if I'm working on a game and I put a little bit of visual love into it, so the graphics 14 00:00:37,710 --> 00:00:40,980 look a little bit nicer or the game feels a little bit better. 15 00:00:40,980 --> 00:00:44,520 Then I get excited to work on the project and to implement more features. 16 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,490 Also, it allows you to show your game and get feedback. 17 00:00:47,490 --> 00:00:48,360 That's really important. 18 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,560 If you wait and wait and wait and then show it to people, might be too late to make the changes or 19 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:53,550 to get the new ideas. 20 00:00:53,550 --> 00:00:58,170 So you want to make sure the game is playable, that it feels good, and that it looks good, and not 21 00:00:58,170 --> 00:01:00,690 leave it with programmer art until the very end. 22 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:05,550 And it helps you generate new ideas for your game when you're playing your game in a playable state. 23 00:01:05,550 --> 00:01:10,830 So I have a challenge for you to iterate on what you have at the moment, tune the player to improve 24 00:01:10,830 --> 00:01:16,200 the feel if you haven't done so already, look at the gravity, the rotation speed, the movement speed, 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:17,280 etc. to get to the point. 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,370 Well yeah, this is pretty cool doing jumps and bumps and stuff. 27 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:23,760 Tweak the camera distance, add some background sprite. 28 00:01:23,770 --> 00:01:28,440 So right at the very start of this section, I gave you some sprites that include some trees, some 29 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:29,640 clouds and some other things. 30 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,740 So plop them down in the scene and get to the point where your game is feeling pretty good. 31 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:36,840 So pause the video, take on that challenge. 32 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,880 When you come back, I'll show you what I'm going to go through for my iteration on my game. 33 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,620 So I'll see you back here shortly. 34 00:01:46,730 --> 00:01:47,150 Okay. 35 00:01:47,150 --> 00:01:47,690 First step. 36 00:01:47,690 --> 00:01:48,820 I want to play around the camera. 37 00:01:48,830 --> 00:01:49,850 It's far too close for me. 38 00:01:49,850 --> 00:01:54,500 I'm not seeing enough of what's coming up, so I'm going to click on my follow camera and change the 39 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:55,880 where are we in here? 40 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,800 The lens, ortho size. 41 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,240 I'm going to put that to ten, I think. 42 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,050 See how that goes. 43 00:02:00,050 --> 00:02:04,130 Now I want to play around with Barry a little bit, change the gravity scale. 44 00:02:04,130 --> 00:02:07,850 So I've been playing with this and I think it's just a bit too light and bouncy. 45 00:02:07,850 --> 00:02:12,380 I'm also going to move him a little bit more up the hill, so I've got a little bit more runway and 46 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:17,390 I'm going to move my finishing line to the actual finishing line because I don't need to be playing 47 00:02:17,390 --> 00:02:18,530 around with that at the moment. 48 00:02:18,530 --> 00:02:23,630 I might do a little bit of a quick iteration on my level layout as well, because I think I've got just 49 00:02:23,630 --> 00:02:24,950 the same thing over and over and over. 50 00:02:24,950 --> 00:02:31,430 So I'm going to do a little bit of a down at the end, I think, just to lower the level a bit at the 51 00:02:31,430 --> 00:02:31,610 end. 52 00:02:31,610 --> 00:02:34,340 So I'll speed this up so you don't have to watch every last little bit. 53 00:02:36,190 --> 00:02:36,590 There we go. 54 00:02:36,610 --> 00:02:37,900 Just a little bit of variety in there. 55 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:38,950 Nothing too fancy. 56 00:02:38,980 --> 00:02:43,600 Next, what I'm going to do is click on the main camera and you can see how it's got a background color 57 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:43,780 here. 58 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:46,990 I'm going to change the background color to something that's not quite so dark. 59 00:02:46,990 --> 00:02:50,680 Blue might make it a little bit more bright. 60 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,540 I think that we've got a little bit of gray sky. 61 00:02:52,540 --> 00:02:54,070 When you're out in the snow. 62 00:02:54,070 --> 00:02:55,630 It's a little bit gray, isn't it? 63 00:02:55,660 --> 00:02:59,680 Now I'm going to scroll out a little bit, grab some trees, I think, chuck them down in the scene. 64 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:04,330 So when we put this down here in previous parts of the course, we've talked about the size of things. 65 00:03:04,330 --> 00:03:07,900 I can click back on the original sprite and change the pixels per unit. 66 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:14,410 So to make this tree bigger, so that means less pixels from the original sprite per unit unit. 67 00:03:14,410 --> 00:03:16,330 So I'll make this 20, see how that goes. 68 00:03:16,330 --> 00:03:21,490 Click on Apply Point makes a nice big old tree in the background might be a bit too big, but now that's 69 00:03:21,490 --> 00:03:21,940 fine. 70 00:03:21,940 --> 00:03:24,520 So I drop that one down there, just a little bit of variety. 71 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,620 So I go through and just scatter a few trees around. 72 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:30,830 Just a little trick for you here. 73 00:03:30,830 --> 00:03:35,390 If you want to have your sprites look slightly different but have the same sprite in there, you can 74 00:03:35,390 --> 00:03:40,250 go to your x axis and just put a minus at the start of it and that will flip it. 75 00:03:40,250 --> 00:03:42,950 So it's kind of like doing a flip horizontal. 76 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:44,350 Let's see, minus. 77 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:44,720 There we go. 78 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,460 Just give it a different shape so they don't all look exactly identical as if we've just gone and duplicated 79 00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:52,940 them in the scene, which is kind of what we've done, but we're pretending we haven't done that and 80 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:54,620 obviously just scaling things up. 81 00:03:54,620 --> 00:03:56,930 So some are a bit bigger, some are a bit smaller. 82 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:57,500 There we go. 83 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:00,910 Some trees in there just to give a little bit of different flavor. 84 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,930 Now we'll throw a couple of rocks in there as well. 85 00:04:02,930 --> 00:04:04,910 Might put some rocks down in the holes here. 86 00:04:04,910 --> 00:04:07,310 What we could do is put some collision on these rocks. 87 00:04:07,310 --> 00:04:11,540 So if you actually go bonk into a rock, then it ends the level. 88 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:12,380 We could do that. 89 00:04:12,380 --> 00:04:15,890 I'll pop this here for now, and that's a maybe to do that later on. 90 00:04:16,010 --> 00:04:19,100 If we want to do that, there's a little rock, so I'm just scaling these up. 91 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:24,530 You could also go and change the pixels per unit, which would probably be a good thing to do, duplicate 92 00:04:24,530 --> 00:04:25,220 a couple of those. 93 00:04:25,220 --> 00:04:26,810 So I won't take too long doing these. 94 00:04:26,810 --> 00:04:28,340 Just a couple of rocks here and there. 95 00:04:28,370 --> 00:04:30,500 Give a little extra flavor to our world. 96 00:04:31,130 --> 00:04:31,490 Okay. 97 00:04:31,490 --> 00:04:34,790 And then the other thing I'll do is drop some clouds in the background. 98 00:04:35,630 --> 00:04:37,640 So pop it in this one. 99 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:38,540 I will do it properly. 100 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:40,640 Click on the cloud, actually, I'll click on all these clouds. 101 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,150 I suspect they're similar and change the pixels per unit to ten. 102 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:46,400 Make them gigantic, apply. 103 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:46,880 Boop. 104 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,570 There we go. 105 00:04:47,630 --> 00:04:49,070 Got this cloud in the background. 106 00:04:49,070 --> 00:04:53,210 Make sure it is in the background behind the other things and then we'll chuck in one of these other 107 00:04:53,210 --> 00:04:59,510 clouds hit goes okay pretty good so I'll throw in a few clouds finish line I'll return to where finishes 108 00:04:59,510 --> 00:05:02,180 lines are supposed to be down the end of our level. 109 00:05:02,210 --> 00:05:02,510 Okay. 110 00:05:02,510 --> 00:05:06,110 Make sure from time to time you're clicking on play to see how it's actually looking. 111 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:09,630 Okay. 112 00:05:09,650 --> 00:05:11,540 Got a tree, got some rocks. 113 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:14,760 Makes me think I should try to not bump into that rock, but it's okay. 114 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:15,050 Oops. 115 00:05:15,050 --> 00:05:15,950 Didn't bump into it. 116 00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:16,550 Okay, cool. 117 00:05:16,550 --> 00:05:17,200 So it's coming along. 118 00:05:17,210 --> 00:05:17,450 Okay. 119 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:17,930 Happy with that? 120 00:05:17,930 --> 00:05:19,040 I can put some more stuff down. 121 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:20,240 We could get some more assets. 122 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,430 We could put in some grass cutting, all manner of exciting things into our scene, into our level. 123 00:05:25,430 --> 00:05:25,790 But you know what? 124 00:05:25,790 --> 00:05:31,130 I spend too, too much time hand placing all these things, because if we say this jumps not quite right, 125 00:05:31,130 --> 00:05:35,240 then we have to change the tree and change the rock, etc. But good to do a bit of finessing. 126 00:05:35,450 --> 00:05:39,680 I'll also while I'm here, I've just dumped a whole bunch of stuff randomly in the hierarchy, so I'm 127 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,340 going to jump down the bottom here, right click and create Empty. 128 00:05:43,340 --> 00:05:48,830 I'll rename this to Environment and I'm going to reset the transform. 129 00:05:48,830 --> 00:05:53,990 So I just right click on transform, see how it says reset here puts the position 2000. 130 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:54,770 Why do we do that? 131 00:05:54,770 --> 00:05:59,540 Well, we've had issues before where some things have been in this really weird Z value and then we 132 00:05:59,540 --> 00:06:00,350 haven't been out of see it. 133 00:06:00,350 --> 00:06:05,330 So resetting it, I know it's right at the zero point now I can grab all of these things I've just dumped 134 00:06:05,330 --> 00:06:05,630 in. 135 00:06:05,630 --> 00:06:09,170 So shift clicking in there, drag them on top of environment. 136 00:06:09,170 --> 00:06:14,300 Now I can close them up so they don't have to take up all that space in my hierarchy, but they're doing 137 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,400 exactly the same thing as they were doing before. 138 00:06:16,430 --> 00:06:20,450 One thing I nearly forgot to mention is you might be seeing a little bit of jitteriness with your character 139 00:06:20,450 --> 00:06:25,970 here as they're zooming along, and that's caused by a disconnect between the way the physics is being 140 00:06:25,970 --> 00:06:28,370 calculated in way the graphics has been calculated. 141 00:06:28,370 --> 00:06:32,750 The way to solve that is to click on your player, then jump over to interpolate and make sure that 142 00:06:32,750 --> 00:06:33,980 is set to interpolate. 143 00:06:33,980 --> 00:06:39,560 That will smooth out the frame so that you don't see any sort of bouncy ness or jitteriness. 144 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,340 So there we go. 145 00:06:40,370 --> 00:06:43,490 There's my level, a couple little finessing tweaks. 146 00:06:43,490 --> 00:06:44,150 I'll do this. 147 00:06:44,150 --> 00:06:48,200 The tree looks a bit wonky in a couple of spots, but we've made our game look a little bit nicer. 148 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:54,110 So please do share a screenshot or a short gameplay video of where you're at with your game at the moment. 149 00:06:54,110 --> 00:06:56,420 I look forward to seeing it and I'll see you in the next lecture.