Huh. Solid timing, here. I actually just fired up Unity with the intention of learning how to use it, and how to code in it just last night. I haven't written code in over a decade, since I was a freshman in college who thought he wanted to pursue CS as a degree and go write games...I ended up graduating with a BA in history.
It took me the longest time last night writing a Pong game to get the ball to a) get some velocity, and then b) to actually bounce. I'm just really not used to how heavily OO C# can be, esp. with respect to the Unity engine. I'm positive that once I get used to it I'll enjoy working with it, and I can already see the potential there, but I spent over an hour figuring out why I couldn't just say
Code:
rigidBody2D.velocity = 5;
and call it a day. No, I had to say some thing more like:
Code:
private RigidBody2D ballbody;
void Start () {
ballbody = gameObject.rigidBody2D;
ballbody.velocity = new Vector2(-5f, -5f);
}
To get the ball to move. And I had to bang my head against the keyboard even more to figure out I needed to make the ball a trigger and put my "bounce" code in the OnTriggerEnter2D function. Still, once I did, I was like "I AM THE CHAMPION OF EVERYTHING FOREVER". Also, I just realized I could have left the ball without the trigger flag and used the OnCollisionEnter2D function instead.
Still, it's been educational as hell working with code again for the first time in so long...it feels like part of my brain is getting oxygen again
