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The Chimps

Let's make a The Sims clone, because why not

Course Lessons

Course contains 39 lessons.

Let's see the basic rules for our level creation. Mostly how to handle the grid scales and where everything should be placed etc.

2. Grid Creation

Let's see how grids work and how to create ours for our needs

3. Pathfinder

Let's create the pathfinder for our S..Chimps

4. Direction Pathfinder

Let's see how to detect valid directions we can move to. *Video ends abruptley due to recorder failure but nothing important was lost

5. Scheduler

Let's create our pathfinding scheduler to handle a lot of units at the same time

6. Obstacles

Let's find our obstacles on our grid

7. Dynamic Obstacle Handling

Let's see what happens with dynamic obstacles however

8. Multifloor pathfinding

Let's navigate through elevators/stairs to walk through our floors

9. Interaction Stack #1

Let's get into the more complex systems for interactions

10. Interaction Stack #2

Now we are cooking with scriptable objects

11. Clean up #1

Let's shape up our code a little bit

12. Needs Framework

Let's make our needy chimps

13. Needs Loop

Let's make our chimps loop through their needs

14. Interaction Stack #3

15. Interaction Instances

Let's make instances of our interactions so we can stuck multiple ones of the same type

16. Radial Buttons

Let's make a radial menu for selecting interactions for our chimps

17. Talking

Let's have our chimps talk to each other

18. Instanced Actions

Let's make unique action encounters

19. Unit Interaction Stacks

Let's switch between Units and each one will have their interaction stacks

20. Animations #1

Let's give some motion to our lovely chimps

21. Overview and why refactor

Let's go through our code and see what's working and what doesn't

22. Gridless A-star #1

Let's turn our A-star to having virtually no limits

23. Gridless A-star #2

24. Gridless A-star #3

25. Agent Avoidance

Let's make our units avoid each other or if failing that, move them

26. Agent Interactions

Let's make our units interact with the world

27. Build Mode #1

Let's get dirty with our UI and start on the build mode

28. Build Mode #2

29. Build Mode #3

30. Build Mode #4

31. Multiple Floors #1

Let's add multiple floors to our game

32. Multiple Floors Pathfinding #2

33. Multiple Floor Build Mode

Let's build, in more than one floor!

34. Floor Tiles Etc.

Let's add some new floor tiles on each floor we have

35. Multi Direction Pathfinder

Let's fix the holes in our pathfinder and make it consider all directions

36. Fill Nodes

Let's lay down our floor tiles in a fill node pattern

37. Outline Nodes

Let's get all nodes in the outline of a square for wall placement

38. Placing Walls

Let's place our walls down

39. Windows & Doors

Let's place some windows and doors to our walls then