What is wrong with this picture?

I’m so glad I’ve switched to Visual Studio for all the code editing. Out of the box Unity doesn’t support anything more advanced than a basic text editor, which drove me nuts within a couple of days. When you’re serious about your programming, you bring out the serious programming tools. It does feel a bit like returning to the Dark Side, running Visual Studio on a Mac to do your iPhone development.

Visual Studio on Mac

The extensibility of the Unity interface is great however. I’ve added loads of helper objects that automatically generate the real geometry when the game is started.

Development in unity

gr.jakko

Comments (5)

5 Responses to “What is wrong with this picture?”

  1. Holle says:

    High,
    well i use TextMate with some extension found in the Unity Forum for my coding….but ok i don’t go so deep into it like you. But well your Helpers look very interesting… would like to try them out ….
    cu
    Stefan

  2. Jakko says:

    Hi Stefan,
    I tried TextMate as well, it was fine when there wasn’t a lot of code in the project. At some point it all started to grow so quickly I couldn’t manage with TextMate. Glad I switched to Visual Studio (had a couple of years experience with VS as well, that also helped), I had to rewrite everything in C#, but it was worth it.

    About all the editor helpers, I might release something when the game is finished. I might… it is all very game specific.

    gr.jakko

  3. Holle says:

    Thxxx for the Info.
    Plz keep me informed when you release the Game !
    i’m very curious….
    greetz from near Enschede(NL)
    Stefan

  4. JP says:

    Hmms, those daily updates only go so far…. :)

  5. Jakko says:

    Thanks jp… scherpzinnig… ;-)

    Busy actually trying to finish something.
    gr.jakko

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