RTS game

Sensonomirai

I am a beginner to game development (I'm in Highschool), and I was wondering if you guys know any good place to learn how to use the Unity engine for an RTS game? Aside from school.
I have gotten pretty familiar with UDK, but it doesn't really appeal to me, to build an RTS.

ZacD

Why don't you just use the Starcraft 2 editor? You can import custom assets and replace all of the existing content.

Sensonomirai

ZacD wrote: »

Why don't you just use the Starcraft 2 editor? You can import custom assets and replace all of the existing content.

Because what I want to do is nothing near StarCraft.

Farfarer

You might get a better response if you ask over on the Unity forums.

osman

Yeah, your question is a pretty tough one. Creating an RTS game requires some extra knowledge above the normal programming knowledge. But to make it sound WAY more easier than it actually is, you need at least 2 systems working right: some kind of command system for unit commands and lockstep networking to replicate the state of the game to all connected players.

This page should have a lot of info for the AI/Command system/Pathfinding etc:
http://www.aiwisdom.com/ai_genrerts.html

And this is a good explenation of lockstep-networking model:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a_288_network_.php

But if my advice is worth anything: don't do a RTS as your first or one of your first games But exploring/learning can never hurt!

Sensonomirai

I'll probably take your advice on that, what I have in mind is way more than I could handle at the moment.