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Unfortunately, I've been quite busy recently and haven't been able to push forward with this, but I should be able to get back on top of it soon. If anyone wants to donate a gun model for upcoming tutorials, I would be very thankful, otherwise I'll scour for something free and suitable.

Woo, another tutorial done. No new functionality this time, but the next few won't do a lot for functionality, just some helper framework stuff. But it should make work a loooooot easier in a bit. Just need to get some things set up though. Anyway, here it is.

Oof, if you're going to want enemies, it will take a little longer. I should be able to get things shooting roughly in your direction, but I haven't got a clue yet how to do pathfinding. I've used recast a little before, but that would require a considerable amount more work. Hmmm.

I think one of the main issues here is that Unity has a load of premade behaviours, whereas Maratis hasn't. The amount of enemies is pretty trivial really, most of the time, once you have 1, you can duplicate pretty easily. I think the best thing for "stage 2" would be to get something playable but not aim too high. Then further tutorial stages can focus on things like AI or vehicles, depending on what is requested.

It's a bit of a shame that I can't make a very simple FPS example, but hopefully we can get some more behaviours added to Maratis to make it easier.

No problem, nice to hear some feedback
Those topics are pretty broad, is there anything in particular you'd want? The aim is to make a small game with the tutorial eventually, mainly using code for the game I'm working on. I haven't, however, decided what sort of game it would be. If you would like to contribute some sort of ideas for how you would use physics, for example, I'm sure it would be pretty simple for me to add some things into stage 2.

Animations, I'm still trying to decide on a design for. I've had experience with 2 different animation systems so far and they both used a state machine to handle them. As i'm planning on adding a state machine into the framework at some point, it seems like a sensible thing to (re)use. My only issue is, how to store the state transitions. Ideally, this should be exposed to a potential designer/artist, so they can tweak stuff, but Maratis Editor doesn't have anything like that yet, so it would be manually writing text files. Even if they were xml, reading it would be a pain. I'm thinking this may be a good candidate for editor/engine plugin behaviour. The other alternative would be to code the state transitions, which would be a quicker solution, but less elegant, I feel.

It's got a bit longer than I was hoping. But it's done. It's a step towards a nice framework to start working on. Anyway, here it is. Good night

I've started it. I'm going to have it up some time tomorrow. I'll have the first half (no code yet) up in a bit

EDIT: The first half of the tutorial is up. I got a bit carried away and I've started with the code. I was just having a problem with Maratis where it wouldn't load my level for some reason. So I got frustrated. Will finish it tomorrow though.

Which timers do you mean? Something like Vega's tutorial?

The way I'm writing this tutorial series is mirroring how I'm using Maratis to make my own game. A timer is a pretty standard building block in making games, so I'm sure it would happen sooner or later. Is there anything you're planning on using a timer for? I will do my best to accomodate what you need.

I've not had time to finish off the tutorial tonight, I got most of it done, but there's still some more to finish up. On the plus side, I think I have plans for all of stage 1.

Right, no excuses for the delay in me providing anything. I am just plain useless.

I have, however, come up with, what I hope will be a better plan. I've started doing some text tutorials first, I'm going to do tutorials in "stages". The first stage will be getting comfortable with Maratis and developing with it. I'm hoping for feedback as to what to do next. Once each stage is written and published, I will cover the same topics in a series of screencasts. As I've already written the text, the screencasts should be simple for me to do, but allow me to give some more detail, instead of pages and pages of text, or thousands of screenshots.

I have started "stage 1" already and have the first 2 tutorials, setting up a Maratis project and then creating a code project alongside it. Any comments are welcome, either here or attached to the tutorials themselves. I'll try and finish what I want from Stage 1 this weekend, but I also need to go and buy food to keep me alive... so I make no promises.

Maratis Tutorials

Trying to debug an issue that only happens on device at work, which means lots of very slow compiles... I've had time to have a bit of a fiddle with Blender and sort the edge split stuff. Lighting looks a lot better now, thanks

Some issues with this is that they're still low poly block outs without the correct textures (apart from the bannisters on the stairs) so it still looks a little wrong, but very pretty still I think. Unfortunately he made it originally for UDK, which has lots and lots of shiny features like the light beams coming through all the windows... but still

What errors are you getting?