Build 3 (4/1/15)


In this version, I spent a lot of time on physics. I solved a huge physics bug that caused the rocks to go flying everywhere. I also finished developing the rocks and their capabilities. Now you can place them where you want and they behave perfectly - they don't go through the walls or fly off, they use gravity and don't go through each other, they stay in place after landing and react to the terrain based on the the form of the terrain. I added more options for them. In this process I did a lot of work on different scrips and properties of different elements and scripts so moving foreword adding new elements is much easier, it set me up to be able to add all of the other elements to come - sticks, leaf litter, plants, mosses, animals, etc. 

Also: Rebuilt the terrarium with each wall being its own object with box collider as a parent to contain its contents.

Added a slider for rock size - this part gave me so many issues but i figured it out.

Overall I am learning a lot as I go along and am constantly needing to change, rebuild, remake, edit components and scripts for parts I have made already for parks I am working on adding as I create more. Creating things is initially not too hard, but adding more things has been harder and more time consuming because I have to completely change the way I had previous components made to create new components that interact with the older ones. But this is making everything I have built more concrete and solid.

As I go along, I will eventually replace a lot of place holder elements with those I have written about in assignments for the professor such as elegant and minimal ui with minimal to no text. I have not done anything with the placeholder menu screen yet, and will also add more controls, for now I am working on the more time consuming concrete core elements, then the fun design parts after I have a better foundation. It may not look like too much has changed but I have done a lot of work, next build you can expect a lot more changes that your can actually see regarding design and simple components such as pulling up the menu, and more controls like that.

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