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Ty Audronis
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Ty Audronis

Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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Collisions and obstacles


We can't wait for you to see your parallax backgrounds, but right now the game is not testable. There is no ground to drive on, and our rover still needs its collision shapes adjusted. If you remember from our previous chapter, collision shapes must be edited in the base object, and not the instance on the game stage. So, let's start with the wheels.

In the asset library, open the Objects section and select the Wheel. In the properties window, you'll see a field called CollisionShape. Click the Edit button for this field.

Within the shape editor, you can see that the current collision shape barely covers the axle of the wheel. Let's expand this selection using the handle (a small dot) on the right side of the circle to cover the entire wheel. It should look like the following screenshot:

Since we did this with the master object for the wheels (and not the two instances of the wheels on our stage), both wheels are affected by this new shape. Now the wheels will actually...

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Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786460301

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Ty Audronis

Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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