Chapter 9 is starting to kick my butt. It is not the chapter itself but Unity crashed on me (for the first time) and I had not been saving the scene and project like I usually do. I have had to back up and figure out what actually saved and what did not, I know all the C# scripts are saved but not what has been saved within the project.

Dang, now it seems like I did not save some of the things I had done yesterday. The reward systems looks to be working ok but now the countdown percent does not seem to be consistent. When the percent get to zero the garden gnome stops all function properly but the stork still delivers after I have only one bunny left. It should stop counting down.

Looks like i have some trouble shooting to do tomorrow morning. The trouble shooting process really brings to light what I have learned and what I am just doing verbatim by the book without learning. Hopefully not the latter and troubleshooting will go soothly.

I am having so much fun working in this book it is hard to stop. I have not moved over to the other computer so I have not been able to get any screen shots. I will tomorrow morning.

One good thing about having this time off is I can work in Unity and Blender without having to stop and go to bed because I have to get up in the morning. I am currently nearing the middle of chapter 7, have had no real issues with the book so far. I’m not sure she takes as much time to explain some of the tasks as she should but having touched and scanned through books on Unity, C# programming, when she says do this, I automatically do it without thinking how. In some cases the how is a little important and I don’t think as much detail is placed there. Other than that, I am enjoying this book very much. As I am working on my macBook Air right now through Dropbox I don’t have Camtasia or Snagit handy to snap a pic for you. As soon as I get a chance I will snap a pic and post it to this post.

Having a great time and, I think, starting to feel better.

Talks to ya Monday!

I failed to get mecanim to work in the two days I gave myself. I spend too much time on the book and moving forward there. I am currently in the middle of chapter four but have already read the entire chapter, working through the tasks within in the chapter (scripting) take a little longer as I have to type in the script, absorb it watch it execute etc.. The next chapter in the book is about mecanim but I do have the proper components and animations into an animation controller within Unity so it is taking a little longer than I thought but Friday we should be all thumbs up 🙂