Hi,
I have no experience in game making. Could I make a simple 3d game in playmaker? I am trying to make a 3d village/town with a few NPC characters and dialogue.
Yes. Actually many students in school could save their $$$$$ and directly stay at home or work with friends, starting from scratch.
What you need is:
- a (logical) brain
- dedication and self-discipline
You're going to code without typing text. It's fantastic but if you don't get the basic point of if/then loops, do this and that, etc., you will not get anywhere.
There are then some tricks to learn. For example, you can put several FSMs on a Game Object, but don't forget that Unity is not built to allow several components of the same type on a Game Object, so if it sends events, it will do it to the first FSM you created (regardless of how you name them or order them in the Inspector window).
Use plenty of commentaries to explain to yourself what you did. You can add commentaries to
FSM (description), you can add them to
States (description too) and you can even add an empty
Comment action
inside a State. They act like memory notes. Imagine you're the guy in the
Memento movie. You
need notes.
Is there a dialogue system in playmaker? Thanks.
Nope but if you can get a bit of money from parents, friends or make quick case through a quick weekend job, you'd be able to secure the
Dialogue System plugin.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/ai/dialogue-system-for-unity-11672Yes, considering the price, it will either be that or the next Fifa.
Final advice:
START A VERY SIMPLE PROJECT.
Don't even jump at what you wanted to do first.
Also, be prepared to do plenty of tests, either by creating different projects or eventually having a "Tests" Game Object in your Hierarchy (and perhaps Project structure) where you'll shove all the Game Objects and FSMs in which you'll run your experiments to quickly understand the behavior of Playmaker or Unity functions.