Dev Shiro

I'm curious about Game Development and decided to write about it in this thing Imma make into a journal. Icon: Twitter.com/_itakana

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Here are my challenges/homework assignments :D Blender Guru gave out 2 and I feel I chose the hardest things to create XD

I really wanted to create a Skull spoon which I got extremely lucky because there was a perfect reference photo for it but it was still a bit difficult to make in a 3d space.

Last was a Heart plate which I honestly don't know why this was so hard to make but by golly it was.

While I can definitely improve these models I’m glad I took the time and made them. Lord knows that the plate took like 3 or more attempts.

Credit of Skull Spoon Reference (google skull spoon for ref): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-o-h0RKvCg

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This took ALL DAY to render. I started my class at like 11 and when render time came around I took a 2 hour nap :D Then I realize render was set to 128 and only 8 frames had rendered out of 30 TT-TT

Found out that I forgot to change the render to 30 and then it took like 5-6 hours to finish rendering. But either way I finished my blender course from Blender Guru!!!!! :D  Celebration °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°  just don't mind the floating sprinkles XD

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Another Fix - No Rb under Script

Ho my freakin lord. This took days to figure out but another error in Brackeys tutorials was that my Rigidbody was not showing up under my script when he said to add in a code to link it. Thank god I gave this a try.

At first I thought this was for people who couldn't get Visual Studios to start up when double clicking the script but, in truth, this was for people who couldn't get rb to show up. So if you have any trouble THIS IS THE SOLUTION. Thank you Benjamin ♥

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FINALLY

Wasn't gonna post today but I found the solution to Brackeys Tutorial for unity for programming. I couldn't get “Hello World” to pop up on  the Console for Unity and finally found out how.

For anyone stuck on the Hello World showing up on the Console. Make sure in the Visual Studio Installer that you have Game Development with Unity installed. Search Visual Studio Installer on your computer and then hit Modify on Visual Studio Community. When that's clicked Visual Studio will pop up with Workload and you want to scroll down to Gaming and check Game Development with Unity. Install it and it should work (that's at least what worked for me).

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Day 15

Condensation and Level 3 Complete!

Also completed my Coding class.

Next will be to figure out where to head next with coding this weekend. I have a few class ideas but research will come first which I made a small playlist to find out where to head to next. But for now time to sleep. Night~

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Day 14

Classes done. Just modeling and Coding today. 3 more then I’m done with the beginner course for C# !!! Tomorrow there’s no coding class so it will be finished Friday but I’m proud of my perseverance (I don't know if that's the right word but good job me!). Night for now ~♥

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Day 13

Woke up early today and managed to get all my classes done.

Today was my 3 class. Figure study, Animation, and coding There's not much to say really since these classes are more so writing and planning.

Found out its useful to eat snacks and walk a little to wake yourself up when you find yourself bored of a class. But I mainly do this with Figure Study since I like to draw but studying can be boring. I try not to do this with Coding since I know if i leave it for a bit, I might not be back. Gonna keep going with luck and hope! Good Luck! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

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Day 11&12?

4/20/20

Okay I completely lost track. Since my last post says 4 days ago then I just completely skipped Friday since I had a bad day. Today I did my blender tutorial and did coding. Gonna have to fix up the schedule because I can only take 30 minutes of learning coding before completely losing interest. So I cut the hour up into 2, 30 minute sessions. I mean it worked so i guess I’ll try that for tomorrow. That’s pretty much all for today since its only 2 classes. Back to my returned obsession with the Gorillaz (mainly 2d) , Night~

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Day 7, 8, 9, 10

Ho wow. I have learned that i really think coding is boring compared to how much i like 3d modeling. Day 7 I honestly cant remember because i was exhausted for the whole day. I may have done my classes but i cant vouch.

Day 8 was a disaster. Skipped first class because i woke up late and had an appointment. I believe I did my animation class but with my coding I gave up and went to sleep.

Day 9 was better. I did my blender and partially did my coding. I gave up in the last 30 minutes basically. 

Today to get out of my funk i decided to do some tiktoks and that's about it. Rough week but as long as i don't give up than im making progress, even if its a small amount. Have Hope :)

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Day 6

4/13/2020

Finished my classes quite easily today. I actually woke up on time to take my classes at 10:20 which was my goal of when to start them. Today was 3d modeling and coding.

I was quite proud of how the base of the donut looked. But seemed to be really washed out when in render mode. Maybe Blender Guru will explain it tomorrow but if not that's fine since it still looks alright.

Coding as actually quite boring since Mike Dane from free code camp was mainly showing examples of math and other things I’ve done a bit while when i was exploring lessons. Not much to report since today was pretty easy. Got up early and did my work :3 Tomorrow has my 3hr classes so I’ll see how that goes but for now, Good Night~

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Day 5

4/10/20

Completed my classes somewhat today. Due to personal life I got real lazy today. I did manage to complete my 3d modeling Level 1 class from BlenderGuru (pictures below, I ended up putting a bunny in the middle of the donut :D) I just did them at a later time then I should have but still did the hour long class. I should have start class at 10:20 being the earliest and 12:20 being the absolute latest, but I believe I started it it at somewhere around 1:00.

Next was Coding. I want to learn C# and so I tried Codeacademy. I guess I was right to be wary because I really did not like the course. I did the beginner course to coding and while they are good at telling you what different things are like a boolean and string, you don't really code anything. They make you change one small thing that they hold your hand and basically give you all the answers. It was so boring that I stopped and even turned my timer off even though i had 8 minutes left.

I use a study timer called Forest. The app gives me a satisfying feeling when i finish studying because you earn a Virtual tree! The only problem I have with it is that you cant pause your timer or take a break, if you do the tree you were making dies. This can suck because some of your time is being used getting a drink, snack, or going to the bathroom. You can apparently help grow real trees? I haven't looked into that feature though since i believe its paid. You earn coins while studying that you can use to plant different kinds of trees and even a dog shaped one XD

Back to coding, I did find a great option by chance while looking at youtube. There is a site called https://www.freecodecamp.org/ This is a great website! The have videos and projects for you to work on if you want to learn something other than C#. C# as far as I know has a 4 and a half hour long video. The guy is great at teaching and to see him in the video makes you really feel like you have a teacher with you. Since your coding with him along the way it keeps the class fun and he explains everything in simple terms that I LOVE. Highly recommend this video if you get bored easily and want your classes simplified without filler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhQdlIFylQ8

That’s all I have for today. I feel I keep working without wanting to take a break but I really need to sit down and , funny enough, force myself to play a game or watch something for fun and not for studying. Taking breaks is essential so you don't burn yourself out but be aware of how how much time you spend because too little or too much can be bad for you. Good luck and Good Night~

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Day 4

4/9/2020

Today was quiet relaxing. Finished my classes and changed up my first class. I was suppose to be studying my figure drawing book but the class was suppose to last for 3 hours and I’m horrible at reading. I changed the time so I studied the book for an hour, I had some extra time so I did some figure drawings of my own. I messed up on the first 5 minute one so I used the next page to do 1 more.

After that I took a 30 minute break. Once the break finished I used the last 1 hour and 30 minutes to study a human face (Picture down below). For a while I really didn't like how it looked but didn't give up, which I’m proud I didn't do since i like how it came out. I tried to focus solely on the face since I’m bad at hands really just wanted to practice face anatomy since you can tell someones art style probably by how they draw the face(or at least that’s what I remember from watching a drawing with waffles episode). Either way I don't really have a way I draw faces and I desperately need to work on my faces outlines, like the jaw and chin.  I ran out of time to do the eye and even though I could have taken extra time to draw the eye, I really didn't wanna do it. XD

My next class wasn't for another 2 hours so I took a break and watched the Steven Universe movie. No spoilers here but the animation is great.

Last class was animation. Thank you figure study class because they came in handy drawing the rough story board which I pretty much worked on the whole time.

For the game I’m thinking of making I’m studying some animes and am watching School-Live. I have been meaning to watch it because I really like animes where they have cute characters but something is off and has a big messed up plot twist. If you have seen Yuuki Yuna is a hero or Madoka, that's basically what I like, or at least a guilty pleasure of mine. Okay calling it guilty pleasure is really weird but I don't know what else to call it. I don't really like sad animes but I’ve always been interested on peoples take of this type of genre. Maybe its the psychological side or mystery I like since I really hate gory animes TT^TT I don't know I guess I’m picky since I have seen Another, Parasite, and Deadman Wonderland? XD

Anyway enough ranting, That’s it for my day. Once I fix up my schedule I might share it in case others are curious what I do and what I use to study. That’s all for now, Good Night~

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Day 3

4/8/2020

Not much to report since it was a slightly easy day with 2 classes. Did my 3d modeling and was able to code. I tried Brackeys Tutorial today for learning C# but I don't think its for me. I enjoyed correctly solving the challenges he gave at the end of the videos but I feel I need a more guided session for Coding. So tomorrow I will be trying CodeAcademy. It’s suppose to be my break from coding tomorrow but maybe I will test the site out just a little. That’s it for now, Good Night~

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Day 2

4/7/2020

Bad day really. I was able to complete my Figure study (3hr session) and animation(1hr 25min session) but Animation was pretty boring since it was planning character clothes to match the art style. But the 3hr coding turned to 6 hours due to not being able to understand the program. I tried Visual Studios Code for a long while unable to figure out how to run the code with cmd, this took most of my time. I did this for waaaay to long because of stubbornness. Eventually I gave in and tried the normal Visual Studio 2019. I tried a normal script (forgot whats its called but it may have been an empty project or blank solution) which didn't work. I must have accidentally unchecked some things because the only option, when I started a new file, was the script I just tried. Since I wasn't sure what happened I reinstalled it and found that .NET desktop development and Visual Studio extension development in the Visual Studio Installer needed to be checked. I’m not sure if you need both but I’m too lazy to check. Although I feel I didn't complete much, I need to remember that I’m learning something new and not to stress over it too much. I was able to figure out how to make the program run and I never gave up which means I can code tomorrow! That’s it for today, luckily tomorrow wont be as stressful since I only have two classes. ♥ Good Night~

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Day 1

4/6/2020

Today I finished my first round of lessons. I woke up a little late but thats bound to happen when you try waking up at a new time. Still made sure to push my classes back so I still studied the amount I was meant to. First was 3d Modeling, though this is not needed for making games, having this skill may be useful in the future if I do follow through with creating a game. I used the tutorials by the lovely Blender Guru on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U

His tutorials have always been fun to follow and with the new look of Blender 2.8 my small skills in the old blender did not translate well so I decided to learn the basics all over again. I recommend anyone who wants to learn modeling to check him out.

My last class, I follow a college schedule layout so I only had 2 classes today which lead to about 2hr and 15 min of learning, was coding.

I made a lot of mistakes. I first checked out Unity's tutorial for making my “First Game” and found it to be completely useless in learning. It used presets to show you how to test a game and using prefabs to put into the game. I used the 2d platformer so maybe the others taught something else but it wasn't for me

Next mistake was watching Brackeys tutorial for Unity. DO NOT START WITH THIS XD While it did help me understand Unity a lot more, I was suppose to be looking for C# coding and my dumb brain thought it would be in Unity all tied up in a little bow for me.

Brackeys does have a C# Tutorial, which I again thought would be with the Unity tutorial for some reason and didn't really think about until i finished my lessons, its actually in a playlist all by itself. So I will probably be checking that out tomorrow.

As with all learning there will be mistakes and I will try and fix them for the next few days messing with the schedule to see whats best and whats need changing. I will try to update here since I don't like Wordpress and Tumblr seems a lot more fun to use to update myself on my study's. Now to go to bed since it’s 12:04 and I was suppose to be in bed by 11. I left the tumblr tab for a long while and when I came back my entire text was deleted and decided not to write this but after some thought I decided, hey, maybe I should. So with that Good Night~