notes on Unity

• How do you sepcify rotation?

  Quaternions, to deal with gimble lock.

• Standard Unity methods.

  update() once per frame before rendering
  late_update() once per frame after rendering
  fixed_update() once per physics update cycle

  awake() 1st?
  start() right before first update

• Component architecture.

  Each script a component.

• Practice w/ editor.

  dep. (?) objects

• Understand how components communicate.

  Family of methods: send_message()
  String -> method, invoked on every component your object is attached to.
  send_message_upwards()
  

• Tutorials on web site: 3D platformer.

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• Lighting and shadows modes (rendering modeds).

  "Tons of lights" for deferred rendering.

• Scripting languages.

  C# ([_] study syntax) or Javascript/Unityscript or Boo (?).

• Character controller class.

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• Art pipeline.

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• Basic development environment (Mono Develop)

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• Physics subsystem -- copllision. (PhysX ? Nvidia

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• Customize editor.

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• Compile into .NET assembly (dll)

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• GUI System (on_gui method)

  Close to useless; 3rd party alterrnatives.

• Types of lights

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