In this video, we’ll talk about Input remapping and visual improvements, namely textures and its impact on overall project. Have fun.

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I’m excited to share a progress of the drum game (thinking about calling it 3Drums). Now working on a visual feedback, physics of the drums and overall feel. Looking forward to implement some sort of play-along system. With music this thing really comes to life.

Stay tuned and feel free to share!

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Tutorial: How to Export From Blender to Unity, part 1

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Part 1. How to preserve pivot point (origin)?

Unity 4.3.1, Blender 2.69

In this series of tutorials, we’ll take a look at some problems during export from Blender to Unity3d and the ways to solve them.

When we’re making game with Unity3d and Blender, we’re exporting/importing assets all the time. This process can be exciting and rewarding, but also can be confusing, time consuming and very technical. Of course, we’d like to focus on making something that matters – interactive content, beautiful levels, cool characters and not worry about weirdly rotated geometry or moved pivot point during import.

Problems:

1. Origins not imported to Unity.
2. Scale of imported fbx models is 0.01 by default.
3. X axis rotation problem (Unity imports model already-rotated 270 degrees in X axis)

In this chapter, we’ll solve the problem of:

1. Origins not imported to Unity. In another words, pivot point is reset to 0-0-0 coordinates.

If we develop a habit of having one blend file per model, it’s totally fine. But sometimes it’s more convenient to have a full scene in the blend file. For example, we need to swap textures and model parts across our objects.

So, if we’re used to this workflow, we’re often find ourselves:

* placing a model at 0-0-0 coordinates,
* exporting it
* restoring position

Huh? This is not ideal, at least, to move every object back and forth just to export it. So what could be done to speed up the workflow?

STATIC MESH

To import origin as pivot point from Blender to Unity3d, Blender object needs to be parented to an empty. In case of static objects (not skinned meshes), empty would serve as a pivot point in Unity.

Benefits:

* pivot point won’t be placed at the center of coordinates

* no need to parent model to empty game object inside Unity3d
* no need to center object in blender before importing
* group of models can be exported this way

So, we’re parenting object to an empty in Blender, and exporting empty AND the object using fbx exporter.

Examples from Drum game in development.

Part 2. Fixing scale being reset to 0.01 on FBX import.

Part 3. Fixing X axis rotation (Unity imports model already-rotated 270 (or -90) degrees in X axis).

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Here we go, basic functional for Drums is coming together. We already can play it and see the feedback. Animation is physics-based.

What is it?

Online drum simulator in 3d. Being developed with Blender and Unity3d, web-based (Unity Web Player).

Development

I’m developing Drums from the comfort of my pajamas. I want it to be free (as in freedom) and nice in terms of sound quality and features. Assets are being developed in Blender, composed and scripted in Unity3d.

Sounds: First bunch of samples are from Freesound.org (CC BY 3.0, CC0 1.0 Universal)

Sticks: Suicidity
Crashes: Matias Reccius, minorr
http://freesound.org/people/minorr/
http://freesound.org/people/Matias.Reccius/
Hihat, snare, toms, ride: Sandyrb
http://freesound.org/people/sandyrb/

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Hey, I’m excited to post a screenshot from indie game, that I’m developing from the comfort of my pajamas. It’s drum simulator, being produced in Blender and Unity3d.

Right now I’m thinking about starting development diary and some tutorials on the topic of Blender and Unity3d workflow. What do you think?

p.s. Started thread at Unity3d forum:

and at TIGSource

p.p.s. Video development log #1

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