I’ve created a simple demo of the kind of thing I expect for assignment 1. You can play it online here. You can control the plane with the arrow keys. Notice the “physics” are very simple. You don’t need to try to simulate realistic flight. For the two other moving things requirement, I added a […]
Course Forums open
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Assignments
I’ve opened the Course Forums for this subject. Reza, Sam and I will be monitoring the Assignments forum and answering any questions. If you are having any problems, please post them there so that everyone can have access to the answers. Update: You need to register before you can use the forums. It doesn’t just […]
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Lab 3
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Lab
In this lab you are going to make a very simple game. The player moves around in a 2D world gathering ‘treasures’. When each treasure is touched, it disappears.
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Ass 1 – flight simulator
August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Assignments
Your task for assignment 1 will be to design and program a simple flight simulator in Unity. It must contain the following: A plane under the control of the player, as per the controls below. At least two other moving objects in the scene. How they move is up to you. A static landscape to […]
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Lab Week 2
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Lab
Note: If you missed last week’s lab you will need to activate your CSE account. Look at the instructions from last week. Ask your tutor about this before you proceed. Your task in this lab will be to create some objects and make them move. You’ll also learn how to import more interesting models than […]
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Lecture videos and notes
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Lectures
The videos of lectures are now available on UNSW TV. They should also in time become available on UNSW’s eLearning YouTube channel and on iTunes U but that doesn’t seem to have happened yet. In related news, it doesn’t look like I will have time to write lecture notes on the wiki on top of […]
Lab Week 1
July 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Lab
We will be starting labs in Week 1 for all classes except the Monday lab which will start in Week 2. There are 3 tasks for this week’s lab: Activate your CSE account. Write your first program! Play with Unity
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Lecture Slides and Wiki
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Lectures
As the course is being revised this session, I will be writing the lecture slides as we go along. Each week’s slides should be available on Monday before the lecture. You can download them here. I will be writing lecture notes on the class wiki. Each lab group will have an annotations page on the […]
Welcome to COMP1400 – 10s2
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Welcome everyone to the new and improved Programming for Designers 2010. I (Malcolm Ryan) am taking back the reins this year and making some big changes to the subject. Student feedback from last year was that the Alice programming environment was too simplistic and not useful in the ‘real world’, so this year we are […]
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