So far the book review is going well but they have sent me chapters two, three and then four and six thinking this is strange I asked the question, what about chapters one and five. I was told there have been issues with those chapters and will receive them when they are resolved. After reading chapter two it was obvious that chapter one was about the creation of game in general and Role Playing Games (RPG) specifically. I don’t know what kind of issues you can have with that sort of topic, strange. I’m not sure what chapter 5 is about.

Chapter two was fairly straight forward about the creation of the terrain concentrating on a free asset store item you can use to create terrain ‘easier’ and quicker than the built in terrain tools. I did not find that to be the case. In fact I found the terrain tool non intuitive and creating terrain from scratch much faster. They could have spent at least a little time explaining the build in terrain tools and the reader would get much more out of that chapter.

Chapter three was about bring in the player characters using another asset from the asset store, this asset is quite good. What readers of this book will need to understand is the author made no effort to create their own assets and if you would like to follow the book you will need to spend ~300.00 in the asset store plus the price of the book. At least the author could have provide some very basic assets for player characters, non player characters and the medieval environment for a small version of the level for basic playability.

SharePoint:

I think I have found the solution for the Change tracking in SharePoint (again) and it has nothing to do with Power Apps or Flow. I found PowerBI.  This tool from Microsoft creates the charts and list views that I was looking for. Unfortunately you still can’t visualize in real time but that was going to be a limiting factor no matter what.

I have decided to forget trying to find a solution to joining lists and doing workflows without SharePoint Designer 2013. I downloaded the program to all of my computers including work since there will be at least some support for the program for the next five or six years and it won’t be dead software for at least a decade. I’ll be long gone from Triumph by then. Probably retired and writing my own SharePoint books and training in Udemy and Lynda.com. I also loaded InfoPath for creating forms in all the same computers as well. More training ahead for me.

Unity, C#, Python and Blender

Starting to create some of my own assets for the book in blender but had to succumb to purchasing some of the asset store products to get myself up and running with what the book was trying to teach. I really should have my own assets ready to go for thing like this.

This last weekend:

This last weekend was the best yet. I spend most of it in Lynda.com learning SharePoint designer 2013 so I could get up to speed writing workflows using that tool. Not quite as intuitive as flow.microsoft.com and not nearly as powerful with the data sources you have using flow but definitely a powerful program once you learn the ins and outs.

Talk to you next week. I can’t wait for this next weekend coming up. It is going to be spectacular as Jeff Raley would say.