Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt (Part 4)

Written by PET on 10.December.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Welcome to Part 4 of my “Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt” tutorial. In the first part I tried to introduce you to Bolt and how Bolt works, we made the plants button UI, we made it so we know what grass tile we clicked and we made the new plant to follow the mouse cursor. In the second part we talked on how we load another scene additive, we talked about the pause menu, UI Manager and we even seen how we can use State Machines with Bolt. In the third part we talked about how to spend money to build plants, the money manager and some other stuff.

In this episode we are going to talk about:

• Zombie
• Health System (State Machine that we can add on anything that we want to have health)
• UI Gain/Logic Anim (I only show this in the video since I ended up not using it)
• Bullet
• Zombie Spawner

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Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt (Part 3)

Written by PET on 07.December.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Welcome to Part 3 of my “Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt” tutorial. In the first part I tried to introduce you to Bolt and how Bolt works, we made the plants button UI, we made it so we know what grass tile we clicked and we made the new plant to follow the mouse cursor. In the second part we talked on how we load another scene additive, we talked about the pause menu, UI Manager and we even seen how we can use State Machines with Bolt.

In this episode we are going to talk about:

• Spawining the sun & Clicking it to gain money
• Spend Money to Build Plants
• UI-Buttons got renamed so we had to update our findPlant script
• UI-Manager is going to update or UI-Plant-Buttons
• We created a Money Manager
• Firingplant got implemented with it’s own state machine
• Early Bullet that only fires but does nothing

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Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt (Part 2)

Written by PET on 06.December.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Welcome to Part 2 of my “Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt” tutorial. In the first part I tried to introduce you to Bolt and how Bolt works, we made the plants button UI, we made it so we know what grass tile we clicked and we made the new plant to follow the mouse cursor.

In this episode we are going to talk about:
– HUD Scene (Pause Menu & Money Label)
– Loading another scene additive
– Grass Tile Clicked (We are actually going to “plant” the plant in that grass tile that we clicked
– We fix the Flower UI Clicked bug
– UI Manager
– State Machine of the Sunflower

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Plants vs Zombies in Unity using Bolt (Part 1)

Written by PET on 02.December.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Bolt is an Unity Asset that allows you to create logic in Unity visually. Without writing any line of code you can “make stuff happen“. Some of you might know that I love visual tools having covered in the past FlowCanvas. Ever since Bolt came out I wanted to test it but I decided to wait a bit because at the time of writing this Bolt is only 4 months old and there were a couple of features that were not implemented yet. I was mostly waiting for the drag & drop feature, which I do have to say that as of version 1.2 is implemented 🙂

I’m simply amazed on how fast the development of Bolt is happening so I decided to split my tutorial in multiple parts as I am also learning how Bolt works. So don’t that what you see here is “the way to do it”, take it more like a start point. Also because things are evolving fast some things might be a bit different so make sure you will also check my latest tutorials.

Another thing that I like about Bolt is the documentation & the forums. You can find them here. There you can report bugs, request new features, read the documentation, etc.

The installation of Bolt is pretty easy and it’s also explained in the manual. I do have to mention one thing. I love the fact that you can pick up a Naming Scheme for the Bolt nodes. You have this “Human & Programmer” naming. Since I’m a guy that wants to learn the exact API & programming terms I chose the Programmer Naming. However if you are only interested in Bold and how to use Bolt or maybe you are not “that technical” you can chose the Human Naming. This is really really great!

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Unity Asset Store – Black Friday Sale 2017

Written by PET on 20.November.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

It’s that time of the year when Unity is making a 50% sale on the most popular assets. In this article I will show you “SOME” the most interesting assets on that list. Click here if you want to see the whole list.

	Playmaker is one of my favorite Unity assets. I have been using it for the past two years and to my shame, I have no videos about it. I should do something about it 🙂 Well Playmaker is a visual State Machine tool. Basically when you get to a new state, you execute some of the pre-written Playmaker Actions. And that’s what is great about Playmaker. You have a lot of actions that have already be written. You will be able to make “anything you want”. You want to make a Sphere change it’s color when you press the “space” key, you can. You want to load a new scene when your player collides with a collider, you can. Basically you can “make things happen” in Unity without knowing how to code, however you still need to know Unity and have a logic brain.
	Amplify Shader Editor is one of the many amazing tools developed by the guys from Amplify Studios. As the name implies, this tool is a Shader Editor made to be similar with the shader editor from Unreal. This is one of the top complains that artists have in Untiy… the fact that you “don’t have a material/shader editor”. I have been tracking the progress of Amplify Shader Editor for some time and I’m amazed on how many updates they are releasing. You also have a lot of useful templates that come with the Editor.
	Gaia is an amazing terrain tool. I have already made a tutorial that covers Gaia. But just to explain some things again, Gaia allows you to generate terrain procedurally … like really 100% random terrain or it allows you to use it’s tools to create the terrain manually. Or anything in between. Like you could start with a little bit of randomly generated terrain, then you come in and add more stamps making the terrain more unique.
	If you created some terrain, either by using Gaia or the Unity Terrain … you might be in need of some cool looking water. This is where AQUAS comes into play. AQUAS is an amazing asset that will create some beautiful looking water.
	Have you ever wanted to give your players the ability to “Save & Load the game”? Well this is what Easy Save is doing. I only used it on some particular cases but I do have to say that the asset creator (Joel) has been incredible useful. At one point he even provided me with a special action for Playmaker.

Well, those are only some of the useful assets that are currently on sale. I do recommend you to check my video where I talk about some of the other assets.

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