starting systems

[drifting trench]

how do I start doing systems I see in games I like, I have a bad school schedule so I cant stay 1 year only doing ping pong flappy bird

this is an exemple for a system

people come to you

you givecandy

and score goes up

and maybe dialoge for every characther

[long jetty]

learn how to break down the systems into smaller and simple ones to learn

[drifting trench]

k so like here you need to make people walk to you from a point to another

you click on a bowl to spawn candy

you pick up the candy

you throw on people collison

[long jetty]

I still dont get what are you asking here.. these are fairly easy systems in their simplest form

[drifting trench]

they go to 3 point

[drifting trench]

so I kinda dont know eather but look at it I broke the system

[long jetty]

broke the system ?

[drifting trench]

bad english

make it in smaller things

[long jetty]

here is an example.

you givecandy
and score goes up
if(gotCandy) score++

etc.

then put all them together

[drifting trench]

NPCs walk to points,pick up, throw, collison, UI score

yeah so I will see another question

[long jetty]

this is a typical Dunning Kruger Effect probably

[drifting trench]

is hard to do a walk animation for a NPC ? and yeah I wont stay on blender I will take on google

[unkempt blaze]

• Character controller
• Simple NPC movement linked with Simple NPC animations
• Raycast shot from mouse aim to detect candy bowl
• Click candy bowl to spawn candy in player's view
• Click again to throw candy in front of player
• Candy detects if it collides with NPC

[long jetty]

you might be over estimating the practical skills you currently have/ need to pull this off

[unkempt blaze]

I think these are the basic easy systems you gotta make for now.

[long jetty]

I mean shit like mixamo exists, but know how to setup animator, states and transition and how to connect move speed to those variable

again there is a lot to do

You might be biting more than you can chew here 🤷‍♂️

[unkempt blaze]

The screenshot you sent looks cool. Just make the systems here and make it look nice with particle systems, lighting, and music

[drifting trench]

good I will have next week to see

[long jetty]

mhm best of luck I suppose..

[drifting trench]

yeah but I dont like 2D games and this is kinda very kinda easy at some points and I can learn from them

[unkempt blaze]

Take it one step at a time. Don't forget to use ChatGPT and 100% understand the answers it gives you. Also tell it to send you youtube tutrials for some systems which are more visual.

[long jetty]

nobody saying you need to necessarily do 2D .. the point is to make EASY TO MAKE systems

focus on the smaller tasks to get to the bigger picture

and easy / simple games teach you those basics you can incorporate into bigger projects

[drifting trench]

yeah I want that maybe in 1-2 years to make this type of short horror games, they are the only one cool for me to play lol

[unkempt blaze]

1-2 years? bro you can make this in 1 month. even if you're learning from zero

[icy frost]

ok that might be a bit too ambitious

but 1-2 years is a very realistic timeframe

but only if you start actually learning unity now

[unkempt blaze]

This is encouragement btw. dont think im shutting you down

[icy frost]

rather than fixating on this one idea

[drifting trench]

I will try to make this system after one similar and so on till I can make without looking every 2 minutes on tutorials

and implement new things every time so not just a loop

[long jetty]

you do that by gaining experience

[drifting trench]

yep

[unkempt blaze]

Remember. ChatGPT is a lifesaver and will understand exactly what you need to do. Keep messing around and have it guide you sometimes. Tell it you're an absolute beginner and go from there.

[drifting trench]

now I need to focus on school till next week cuz a lot of tests

[long jetty]

false

this is poor advice

[unkempt blaze]

why so?

[long jetty]

the lists is too long

[drifting trench]

ChatGPT is bad on C# but on explaining maybe

[unkempt blaze]

oh you dont give it the full list of course. each system is a separate chat

[drifting trench]

AI can explain in general but not deep

[long jetty]

this is bad advice and should not be given on this server , you will not learn well. You will spend more time fixing / getting around broken code or poor advice than you did learning what you're actually doing

[drifting trench]

and I can ask just for the term and search on YT

[long jetty]

instead of trying to squeeze all these systems in 1 game in the beginning , make each system as its own project /game

theres my advice.. do as you will.
g2g

[drifting trench]

bye

[unkempt blaze]

Well to each their own I guess. It works perfectly for me and my trainees ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[long jetty]

sure bud

[icy frost]

ai coding is some 5 years away from actually being useful, llms simply cant parse full context for your entire project accurately enough to not fuck up even the basics sometimes

i would stay clear from using ai especially when learning