Extra Credit "Tech Tip: Animated Gif"

 For this week's extra credit task I went onto https://gifmaker.me and turned an old funny video of me and my friend into a gif. This was a fun task and this video makes me miss college in person.

Tech Task "Quote" week20(09)

 For this week's extra credit Tech Task, I explored different kinds of quotemakers. I created this on one called canva.com . I used an Oscar Wilde quote and have also set it as my desktop background. 

Unity tutorial 07

This week was our last week of Unity tutorials. Looking back I really enjoyed the tutorials this semester a lot more than last semester. Last semester I enjoyed the reading tasks more and struggled so much with Unity but this semester it is definitely the opposite way around. The last two tutorials where called Audio and Build, Run, Distribute, they were both short tutorials and only took me an hour altogether. The first one was adding audio to my characters and the scene I was able to do nine out fo the ten steps in this tutorial one I struggled with I think it was worded weird because I couldn't figure out what to do. I just moved on after a while and it didn't make much of aa difference. The second part was only four steps and on the last and finale step of the entire tutorial, I was unable to "BUild" the website and save it because there was something wrong with the scripts even though I have checked my scripts at the end of every tutorial. Also ruby still can only move a certain amount since the second or third tutorial I have tried to fix this numerous times and as I am not able to see any of my college friends and no one in my family has a clue about unity she will probably remain this way. Either was Rubys 2D adventure is complete and I feel like iv learned a lot. 

"Tech Tip: Twitter Follow"

For this week's extra credit task I went back and did a task I had done at the start of the year as I think iv completed most of the extra credit tasks already.  I followed more people on Twitter this time I chose people outside my course that I find interesting. I followed Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Riccardo as I am watching drive to survive on Netflix at the moment and it has quickly become my new favourite show. 

Unity07

  For this weeks unity tutorial I complete the tutorials "World Interactions - Dialog Raycast" and "Visual Styling - User Interface - Head-Up Display". After completing these tutorials I now have only two tutorials left before I have complete Ruby's Adventure and will have a fully functional and playable 2D game. When starting the tutorials this week I realised I had made a mistake last week so I had to go back and fix the smoke particles I created last week. I then moved on to creating a health bar for ruby so when sh gets damages you can see the blue bar move down. I found this quite complicated creating different images, mask and canvases I'm still not 100% sure what I did but I followed the steps and was able to complete the tutorial in just under an hour. Next, we created a new character named Jambi, I think I'm going to have to redo this tutorial at some point during the week when I get the chance because I got a bit confused during it. I am excited to finish up the Unity tutorials and complete the game.  

             

For my image this week I chose another screenshot of my desktop while I am mid tutorial, this is a boring option but it does prove that I am actually doing the tutorials.  

Extra Credit 'Einstein Tech Tip'

 For this week's extra credit task I decided to create my own Einstein image using the Einstein Generator. This is what I created:

I chose a dad joke to write on the board.

Unity Tutorial 06

  For this week, week six of the semester I completed another unity tutorial, I complete both tutorials eleven and twelve. I now have just four unity tutorials left until I have completed "RubyRuby's Adventure: 2D Beginner" Unity tutorial for beginners. The first tutorial I completed was called "Camera-Cinemachine".  In that first tutorial, we installed and added a unity package called "cinemachine". This package is to automatically control the camera without the need for code and C scripts. The camera is now able to follow my main character ruby automatically. We also set bounds for the camera so it doesn't go out of the screen as well as setting bounds for ruby. This first tutorial was quick with only seven steps. Next, I completed the tutorial names "Visual Styling" this part of the tutorial was a bit longer but I still enjoyed it. I also found this tutorial a good bit harder than the first one I did today. I was very happy with myself when I completed them as I'm finding the unity tutorials a lot more doable than last semester.

 Again For my image this week I chose another screenshot of my desktop while I was in the middle of the tutorial, this is a boring option but it does prove that I am actually doing the tutorials.  

Extra Credit Tech Tip: Hashtags and Retweets

 Twitter Task Retweets and hashtags!

The tweet I decided to retweet was from one of my course mates and friend sean. He is looking for people to participate in his documentary, by retweeting it hopefully he will be able to find more participants. 

The hashtags I explored were #GameJam and our class hashtag #dmed2023

link to retweet:  https://twitter.com/SeanCla31310754/status/1366407196129558531

Unity Tutorial 04

 For this week unity tutorial, we complete tutorial nine and ten. I have just six unity tutorials left until I have completed "RubyRuby's Adventure: 2D Beginner". In the first tutorial, I completed "Sprite Animation"  we added animation to both our robot and ruby characters. This tutorial was a bit for advanced and its the only time I would have preferred the video explanation rather than the written but it did help me learn the language of unity when trying to find things myself and diagnose a sentence into steps. I was pleased when I had this tutorial done and everything is working smoothly. In the second tutorial "World Interactions - Projectile" we make our character ruby throw a cog and fix the robots. This tutorial was more based on the #C scripts which I like, they also provide what your script should look like and the end of the tutorial so you can check if you've made any mistakes which iv found very helpful. 

For my image this week I chose another screenshot of my desktop while I am mid tutorial, this is a boring option but it does prove that I am actually doing the tutorials.  

Extra Credit week 15, "Tech Tip:Follow Twitter"

 This week for the extra credit task I have to do the "Tech Tip: Following at Twitter",  I have followed a few more people in my course as well as the TUDublin library services and The TUdublin student union I am now following over fifty people on Twitter and have over fifty followers. 

Unity Tutorial 03

I enjoyed this week's unity tutorial. For this weeks tutorial we continued on with "Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner". I completed the seventh tutorial "World Interactions - Collectibles" which had seventeen steps then the eight tutorial "World Interactions - Damage Zones and Enemies" which only had seven steps. Overall this took me about an hour and forty minutes. In the first tutorial, we saw how Triggers work, and how to detect when a Rigidbody enters them, we wrote our your own function in C# scripts, used private and public access levels and wrote an "if statement". The second tutorial added a robot bad guy to make the world less friendly. We learned how to damage our character with a damage zone and with moving enemies. I was aiming to get two weeks worth of unity tutorials complete this week and that still might happen. The only trouble I found was that ruby will only move slightly up and down so there may be something wrong with the script. I will have to back and look over the week fifteens tutorial to see where I made a mistake. 

Unity Tutorial 02 week15

Starting this weeks unity tutorial I was fairly confident. I flew through last weeks and I knew I would be able to do the same this week.  Though I normally enjoy sitting down to do the tutorials this week it was a case of getting it done and out of the way. Even still I feel like I learned a thing or two. In the first tutorial "Decorating the world" we got a chance to decorate the world we’ve created,customize the way that Unity renders our Sprites and reuse GameObjects using Prefabs. During the second part of the tutorial "World Interactions - Blocking Movement," we modified our character controller script so that Ruby can collide with the world and doesn’t go through objects. To do this we used the "Physics System". I think next week when I have a bit more spare time I am going to try to spend a day and get through a few unity tutorials. I managed to get this week one done in an hour and a half including the blog so I'm aiming to get tow done next week to give me the opportunity to spend more time on the writing tasks as we are now three weeks into semester two and I can already feel the workload of other modules starting to build up.  

screenshot of unity while doing the tutorial 

Extra Credit Teck Task "Tech Tip: Twitter List"

 For this week's extra credit task, I made a list on Twitter. I decided to make a list of interesting Irish people who I think everyone should be following on Twitter.