4:10 - There's another, more efficient way to do this! Attach the particle system directly to the player, and in the inspector, go to "emission" and set the rate over time to 0 and the rate over distance to some value over 0.
You're are doing great job especially for indies. Can, i request you to make 6 to 7 tutorial playlist solely dedicated to game design that includes step by step process of making a cool and attractive 2d game for example video 1 - how to decide theme and story of the game video 2 - how to design cool environment video 3 - how to design main hero characters video 4 - how to design enemies video 5 - doing animations or transitions (especially sprite sheet or just pieces of character that can be animated in unity ) video 5 - how to do sound for game (using free tools or paid one depending upon your experience) video 6 - game UI look and theme like buttons and other UI elements If anything not covered add it by your side thank you. you're doing good work. After struggling for about 1 year regarding game design and was about to leave my indie dream until i came across your channel thank you so much 🙂 you've earned a subscriber 😍
On top of all this, some randomisation will make it feel extra organic. For example slight random change in the pitch/volume of the sounds or creating multiple animations for the same action and selecting one of them at random when it has to play. Keep up the good work!
You've been such a big help! I've basically built an entire platform template in Unity from help using your tutorials, and at this point, I feel I'm ready to finally make a playable game in Unity. Thanks!
This is a great video, and to be honest, I was in the middle of dropping a platformer I was working on, for the exact reason that it felt a little "lifeless". This has inspired me to go back and try these tricks to see if I can breath a little life into it. Thank you so much!
I recommend using Perlin Noise for the screenshake, so you can define different impacts with duration, amplitude and so on for different effects without any animations. Also particle systems can be persistent and reused, instead of instanciating them and destroying them again, so your scene hierarchy stays clear and you don't add garbage which can lead to performance hiccups. (for example if you have 20 enemies, spawning and destroying 5 different particle systems whenever they jump and attack)
Awsome tips , its hard to imagine how little stuff like this can turn an average game into an fun immersive one , keep up the good work, i am looking forward for your next videos
This is awesome - how did I go so long without ever stumbling across your channel? You need to somehow up your marketing cause wow your context is good!
I would probably be way less motivated to finish my game(play it on itch.io (dab)) if I didn't add screen shake and player feedback very early in development. great video my dude
4:59 ,,Don't worry. A single scene can handle hundreds of colliders without really hurting your games performance." But what about older Android phones?
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and I can't jump after adding dust code and the console gives me this msg The variable dustEffect of the move has not been assigned. You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
Hey Eduardo :) ! So glad to see you're still around :) ! Yep my channel is growing thanks to people like you, it's just very motivating and exciting :) !
Mythicalwaters lol I can relate. No one can understand the code right away. Try watching the earlier videos on character movement and basics like unity. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it!
Hey man great videos as always. Helping me a lot on my 2D game for my kids. I am wondering if you could make a video on how you did the tileset. I really like the look of that tileset and how it overlaps but i cannot seem to figure it out completely. Keep up the good work!
I always look forward to your videos and you seem to make a video on exactly what I want to learn. I’m creating a game similar to Hollow Knight and this video was perfect for Character Interaction. Thank you!
Your art styles also inspire me to start actually drawing because its been something I’ve been afraid to try but now I’m really enjoying it! So thank you again!
Keep drawing and creating :) ! I promise you'll get better ! For now just have fun, don't compare what you create to other people's art and keep learning :) ! Best of luck mate !
ive played hollow knight and it seems tiled, but its not really noticeable since its been overlayed with other stuff such as rocks and cliffs and the world doesnt look too geometrical because of that. sorry if this is too late
I have found it much easier to spawn particles via animation events rather than doing it manually from code. You can also use this to destroy particles once the animation has finished.
i always love this kind of tips and tricks tutorials.... like in this case on how to make the player more apealing... btw you make me wanna make a 2d platformer game 😄
Nice one! Thanks for the info!! I Just noticed a slight lag in your land sound maybe you want to mention cutting away the silence before your land sound occurs? Otherwise perfect video thanks again
Usually I'm into realistic as in as close as possible to photo realism graphics, but damn I have to confess that I like the art style of your game and character. It opened my mind to the fact that cool graphics can happen outside of photorealism. Thank you!
Blackthornprod it is the opposite for me. I am a programmer who tries to get decent at art, your cartoon art tutorial was very helpful . Would love to see more art tutorials on your channel! (For example, I tried a cartoon fire and failed because I have no idea how to do shadows, highlights and details for things that emit light)
Obviously the tutorial is aimed for newbie programers. There really is no need to abrieviate everything 😂. Wow you saved yourself a whole 6 characters by ditching "== true" Good job! (I hope my sarcasm is obvious)
Well, for the ground particle prefab, instead of instantiating it all the time, it's better to keep the first instantiated and then just keep "respaning" it, change the position and play the particles again.
Great video. Read a quote that might resonate. "Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in spiritual union." - Frank Lloyd Wright
I always have such mixed feelings when I watch your videos. they are amazing but it reminds me how far I "behind" I am in my drawing style and animations.
Woooow these tips helped so much! Thanks again and much love from a big fan in Scotland! If you could make a video on how to make a player with a sword click with the mouse to kill an enemy, or be killed, that would be AWESOME! Thanks again
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and i can't jump after add dust code and the console give me this msg The variable dustEffect of move has not been assigned. You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
At first your accent sounds kinda weird (no offense), but, when you get used to it, I can feel the effect that it have on making things more clear and easy to understand. Even more in cases like mine, that I don't have the english as my native language, so your words sounds nice and clean, so easy to understand and get the excitement. Btw, thanks for your videos, I'm learning a lot with them.
jump can be a state that uses a trigger parameter as a condition, while run and idle can bet set up using a float parameter representing the movement speed. If this parameter is greater than a certain threshold, the animator makes the character run, if it is under, the animator makes the character go to idle. To update the parameter, you would have to use animator.SetFloat("parameter name", someSpeedVariable);
One thing I disagree is jump squat animation. Yes, it sucks if it's long, but for 3-6 frames (at 60fps) you can't really tell that there's a squat animation but it adds to the movement.
Hi Noa, thanks for the interesting video. Any chance you can share the example scene you showed in the video? It would be really great to have a look at the implementation. Thanks!
I'm definitely planning on making a whole tutorial series on how to make a game on the channel (very soon normally) ! Stay tuned, it should be an exciting, fun project :) !
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and I can't jump after adding dust code and the console gives me this msg The variable dustEffect of the move has not been assigned. You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
Hey, I know this video is from 2018, but I have a quick tip, when you are making "if" statements, there´s no need to use "== true", just write the boolean.
Right now i dropped out of college to teach myself to code fulltime and i havent gotten to making my own art because im god awful but ur characters seem really fun and easy to draw or pixel draw. Any tips for someone who sucks at drawing like what sites to use etc?
I made animation of grass and attached script but it isn't working when i hit play button Grass animation automatically running but on the collider nothing happens. Plz help im beginners
Great video, but it's a bit confusing when you make a transition from the jump to the land. How can I make a land animation without a specific jump animation?
A small tip which i forgot to mention before, You can store the instantiate as a GameObject and then destroy it in the same script so no need to make a separate script for that (E.g : GameObject go = Instantiate(prefab, position, rotation); then Destroy(go, 2f); )
4:10 - There's another, more efficient way to do this! Attach the particle system directly to the player, and in the inspector, go to "emission" and set the rate over time to 0 and the rate over distance to some value over 0.
in such a short time, so many wonderful informations... just wow
Thanks :) ! I'm so glad you found the video helpful !
You're are doing great job especially for indies. Can, i request you to make 6 to 7 tutorial playlist solely dedicated to game design that includes step by step process of making a cool and attractive 2d game
for example
video 1 - how to decide theme and story of the game
video 2 - how to design cool environment
video 3 - how to design main hero characters
video 4 - how to design enemies
video 5 - doing animations or transitions (especially sprite sheet or just pieces of character that can be animated in unity )
video 5 - how to do sound for game (using free tools or paid one depending upon your experience)
video 6 - game UI look and theme like buttons and other UI elements
If anything not covered add it by your side thank you. you're doing good work. After struggling for about 1 year regarding game design and was about to leave my indie dream until i came across your channel thank you so much 🙂
you've earned a subscriber 😍
On top of all this, some randomisation will make it feel extra organic. For example slight random change in the pitch/volume of the sounds or creating multiple animations for the same action and selecting one of them at random when it has to play. Keep up the good work!
Great vid!
Thanks so much :) ! You too have awesome content on your channel :) ! Cheers !
omg mortmort I love ur vids!
0:09 mans really made a transition noise XD
lol ye
You've been such a big help! I've basically built an entire platform template in Unity from help using your tutorials, and at this point, I feel I'm ready to finally make a playable game in Unity. Thanks!
0:33
this is highly disturbing
I died :D
😂😂😂😂😂
Even your older videos are very informative! Thanks a bunch!
So glad you used my all time favorite game Hollow Knight to explain
This is a great video, and to be honest, I was in the middle of dropping a platformer I was working on, for the exact reason that it felt a little "lifeless". This has inspired me to go back and try these tricks to see if I can breath a little life into it. Thank you so much!
I recommend using Perlin Noise for the screenshake, so you can define different impacts with duration, amplitude and so on for different effects without any animations.
Also particle systems can be persistent and reused, instead of instanciating them and destroying them again, so your scene hierarchy stays clear and you don't add garbage which can lead to performance hiccups. (for example if you have 20 enemies, spawning and destroying 5 different particle systems whenever they jump and attack)
Please do some more videos like this! There more helpful than most tutorials
So much info in 9 minutes, great video!
Awsome tips , its hard to imagine how little stuff like this can turn an average game into an fun immersive one , keep up the good work, i am looking forward for your next videos
This is awesome - how did I go so long without ever stumbling across your channel? You need to somehow up your marketing cause wow your context is good!
Awesome go beyond plus ultra☺️
These videos are really well made and informative! Keep it up 🎉
For the camera shake you can also add the cinemachine component (download in package manager) and add some noise.
That video was awesome! Keep up the great work!
I would probably be way less motivated to finish my game(play it on itch.io (dab)) if I didn't add screen shake and player feedback very early in development. great video my dude
Is that goatman?
4:59 ,,Don't worry. A single scene can handle hundreds of colliders without really hurting your games performance."
But what about older Android phones?
Thank you Blackthornprod, very cool!
Dude your videos are awesome! Funny, short and really good.
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and I can't jump after adding dust code and the console gives me this msg
The variable dustEffect of the move has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
no sry I never tried any of this I just watched it for insperation! :)
Really interesting ideas, it's amazing the difference just a few small touches make!! Thanks :)
Great Video! :) Really good deconstructed and very good things mentioned
I am Sri lankan, i want to say that you are Great !!!!!
Such a good video. Happy to see that your channel keeps growing!
Hey Eduardo :) ! So glad to see you're still around :) ! Yep my channel is growing thanks to people like you, it's just very motivating and exciting :) !
:D!
Best Video Blackthornprod!!!!!
i don't ever understand anything in these videos but they're fun to watch anyways
Mythicalwaters lol I can relate. No one can understand the code right away. Try watching the earlier videos on character movement and basics like unity. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it!
Hey man great videos as always. Helping me a lot on my 2D game for my kids. I am wondering if you could make a video on how you did the tileset. I really like the look of that tileset and how it overlaps but i cannot seem to figure it out completely. Keep up the good work!
I always look forward to your videos and you seem to make a video on exactly what I want to learn. I’m creating a game similar to Hollow Knight and this video was perfect for Character Interaction. Thank you!
Your art styles also inspire me to start actually drawing because its been something I’ve been afraid to try but now I’m really enjoying it! So thank you again!
Keep drawing and creating :) ! I promise you'll get better ! For now just have fun, don't compare what you create to other people's art and keep learning :) ! Best of luck mate !
Thank you Noa!
Wow! I just discovered your channel and I really enjoyed watching!
Great work :)
Just a quick tip on the camera shake, it's all good like he did it but to give it more weight i suggest to also do a very small rotation
Another great Turorial! Thanks!
love this art style, out of curiosity would you still use a tileset if you were making a game like this?
ive played hollow knight and it seems tiled, but its not really noticeable since its been overlayed with other stuff such as rocks and cliffs and the world doesnt look too geometrical because of that. sorry if this is too late
I have found it much easier to spawn particles via animation events rather than doing it manually from code. You can also use this to destroy particles once the animation has finished.
Not bad for a tutorial, finding this kind of tutorial is like rare. Good job.
Thanks Dokomei :) ! Plenty more coming up :) !
Amazing tips, and very quickly too, thanks!
As always you suprise us Everytime great stuff huge fan 😁
Thanks so much Mani :) !
Amazing tutorial thank you very much!
Hollow Knight: exist
Blackthornprod
: H O L L O W K N I G H T!!!
I really love your art work. Have you ever considered making a package for the Unity store? I would buy it!
i always love this kind of tips and tricks tutorials.... like in this case on how to make the player more apealing... btw you make me wanna make a 2d platformer game 😄
Thanks Bonyok :) ! 2D platformer games are such fun to make, if you haven't done one yet definitely give it a go, you'll have an awesome time :) !
yea, that would be great, but I don't have any idea on what kind of platformer do I want to make...
i really like the idea thanks! this would help me creating my game
very good info,,one of the best video out there :)
You help us very much.Thank you so much.
This video is really awesome! Well done!
Can't outstand ur art style it's so Amazing :D
OMG nice! soo "little" things - huuuge impact! Thanks
great tips, straight to the point. Subbed!
Nice one! Thanks for the info!! I Just noticed a slight lag in your land sound maybe you want to mention cutting away the silence before your land sound occurs? Otherwise perfect video thanks again
Usually I'm into realistic as in as close as possible to photo realism graphics, but damn I have to confess that I like the art style of your game and character. It opened my mind to the fact that cool graphics can happen outside of photorealism. Thank you!
Your method of teaching is very good o/ keep up the tutorials XD
Noticed you yesterday and watched some videos. Your art style is so clean!
Are you an artist and told yourself to code or vice versa?
Thanks :) ! I'm an artist that then learnt how to code (painful at first but now I've come to really like programming)
Blackthornprod it is the opposite for me. I am a programmer who tries to get decent at art, your cartoon art tutorial was very helpful . Would love to see more art tutorials on your channel! (For example, I tried a cartoon fire and failed because I have no idea how to do shadows, highlights and details for things that emit light)
Is there any way to like every video on this channel at once?
Love your work....so talented
a helpful and great quality video thanks
Great tutorial!
Tip: There is no need to write: "if (spawnDust == true)".
Just: "if(spawnDust)" would be enough, since spawnDusl is a bool already
As an extra;
İnstead of "spawnDust==false"
"!spawnDust" can be used.
Obviously the tutorial is aimed for newbie programers. There really is no need to abrieviate everything 😂. Wow you saved yourself a whole 6 characters by ditching "== true" Good job! (I hope my sarcasm is obvious)
@@andreasachilleos5454 As you said; for newbies; people who might not know simple things. Those 6 chars matters a lot for readable code.
I usually prefer pixel art sprites, but i really love that hollow knight visual style.
THIS IS SUCH A GREAT VIDEO!!! HOW CAN I LIKED 10 TIMES?!
With ten accounts
Good video, expected more views tbh... keep up the good work! :)
Well, for the ground particle prefab, instead of instantiating it all the time, it's better to keep the first instantiated and then just keep "respaning" it, change the position and play the particles again.
Great video. Read a quote that might resonate.
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in spiritual union." - Frank Lloyd Wright
I always have such mixed feelings when I watch your videos. they are amazing but it reminds me how far I "behind" I am in my drawing style and animations.
Woooow these tips helped so much! Thanks again and much love from a big fan in Scotland! If you could make a video on how to make a player with a sword click with the mouse to kill an enemy, or be killed, that would be AWESOME! Thanks again
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and i can't jump after add dust code and the console give me this msg
The variable dustEffect of move has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
Thank you so much for this tips!!! You are awesome keep it up :)
Really handy, thanks!
Niice video man! Thank you! :)
Thanks for this! Really useful :D
your channel is just awesome and you have juste 10k subscribers !!
just*
At first your accent sounds kinda weird (no offense), but, when you get used to it, I can feel the effect that it have on making things more clear and easy to understand. Even more in cases like mine, that I don't have the english as my native language, so your words sounds nice and clean, so easy to understand and get the excitement.
Btw, thanks for your videos, I'm learning a lot with them.
Very helpful & inspiring !!!
Would it be distracting adding so much particle effects? because there are already many enemies and bullets moving
Just make the effects subtle and they shouldn't distract the player :) !
Subbed good job man
Very good advices. Thx
Great masterpiece of video
You are awesome mang! Keep it up!=
What I wanna know is how you set up the "jump", "idle", "run" stuff in the animation window
he made it!
jump can be a state that uses a trigger parameter as a condition, while run and idle can bet set up using a float parameter representing the movement speed. If this parameter is greater than a certain threshold, the animator makes the character run, if it is under, the animator makes the character go to idle.
To update the parameter, you would have to use animator.SetFloat("parameter name", someSpeedVariable);
Awsome tips
Thank you
One thing I disagree is jump squat animation. Yes, it sucks if it's long, but for 3-6 frames (at 60fps) you can't really tell that there's a squat animation but it adds to the movement.
Hi Noa, thanks for the interesting video. Any chance you can share the example scene you showed in the video? It would be really great to have a look at the implementation. Thanks!
awesome video :) could u make a short game series. im sure u can make a greate video in 4-5 videos :)
I'm definitely planning on making a whole tutorial series on how to make a game on the channel (very soon normally) ! Stay tuned, it should be an exciting, fun project :) !
Heyo, Any reason you're not using the option where particle system destroys itself after animation complete?
Oh I didn't know about that option ! Thanks for pointing that out, true enough it would of been an easier and quicker thing to use :) !
This is awesome!!
I simply love your art . it would be great if you made a video on how to do background art. it would be amazing!!! :D
Awesome! Love these videos
did the dust work with u plz answer me cause didn't work and I can't jump after adding dust code and the console gives me this msg
The variable dustEffect of the move has not been assigned.
You probably need to assign the dustEffect variable of the move script in the inspector.
Despite really hating the forced enthusiasm dripping from his voice this is a quality video gj
Noa do you have a video on how you made the sparkle lights? Or how you make particles floating in the air?
Hey, I know this video is from 2018, but I have a quick tip, when you are making "if" statements, there´s no need to use "== true", just write the boolean.
You're awesome dude!
This video is so good!
Right now i dropped out of college to teach myself to code fulltime and i havent gotten to making my own art because im god awful but ur characters seem really fun and easy to draw or pixel draw. Any tips for someone who sucks at drawing like what sites to use etc?
Is it okay if you make a dedicated video on the landing animation, I still don't get it, it would be very appreciated.
Great tuto ❤️ 👍
I made animation of grass and attached script but it isn't working when i hit play button Grass animation automatically running but on the collider nothing happens. Plz help im beginners
amazing video!
Great video, but it's a bit confusing when you make a transition from the jump to the land. How can I make a land animation without a specific jump animation?
A small tip which i forgot to mention before, You can store the instantiate as a GameObject and then destroy it in the same script so no need to make a separate script for that (E.g : GameObject go = Instantiate(prefab, position, rotation); then Destroy(go, 2f); )
Awesome. Like it