Merry Christmas everyone!

Long story short. The whole section done in one day. I decided not to follow tutorial and debug what I can.

This is how my sandbox for resume looks. The next step is to add some toys like experience, education, skills, portfolio, and so on…

The cinematography course went smooth when it is about a code. Darren, moving all around and not afraid of any security guards yet. The Main camera follows him well.

Today, I did this:

14 cameras became in one action movie.

Today I finished the section “Complete Level” cutscene. This scene for a happy ending if a player managed to escape and win the level. I repeated how to use camera fade and animate movement between virtual cameras. Also, repeated UI elements.

Back to Quaternions. Tony Miller posted in public chat today this article about mathematical explanations of a quaternion. Must see if you are interested in 3D. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/

I am also working on my portfolio webpage. Here is my address https://dmitrygordeev.xyz

This is what I learned today.

How to pause a game? It is easy if in your game moving parts depends on time. Time.timeScale = 0; To resume, or slow down change the value.

Quaternions

Confusing word for beginners in 3D. It simply stores rotation coordinates and have unique methods like:

LookRotation

Follows the direction

Vector3 directionToFace = _sphere.position - transform.position;

transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(directionToFace);

Slerp

Follows the direction more smoothly with delay

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime);

Cinematography. Pan Virtual Cameras.

With Virtual cameras and timeline, it is possible to screen movies, add effects like Fade to Alpha