Unity Game Dev - Conveyor Belts!

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The second devlog for my Unity game, Lumbermill. This week I've added the first part of the Factory - Conveyor Belts!
Videos will be uploaded every Friday as development progresses so make sure to subscribe!
Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions in the comments, I'd love to hear them.
First video: • Procedural Forests! In...
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[@ivey3245]

Can't tell you how much I love your art style

[@Woodythehobo]

nice! I’m loving the Factorio / OpenTTD vibe. I like your workflow.

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeee49]

Im excited to play it since I saw your other video about it.

[@lukepyle1818]

Bro this is really cool!

[@GMGuru]

Looking good! The factory belt sprite is really clean. Enjoying the art style keep it up :)

[@BWDev]

Thanks!

[@erikm9768]

Well its like 8 by 8 pixels? :D

[@tghhh19]

So awesome man, I'm brand new to game dev and unity. Thanks for the inspiration and good luck with everything. =)

[@crushelnast6657]

Hope you do great

[@69bruh]

kzbin.info ! Youll need him!

[@gold3ngam3s84]

lol, in the middle of the video he says "actual typing speed", me to big brain looking at the flashing line that goes next to the text moving at a million mph. XD

[@FICHEKK]

Great video!

[@FrankyTaxi]

used to watch this a lot of months back then i completely forgot everything so im restarting :)

[@afrent9296]

Rewatching these vids

[@bazerlo7779]

keep it up! :)

[@ezrakornfeld8436]

You promise you’re typing in real speed but your system clock says otherwise

[@JakeND]

Do you have a tutorial on how to make conveyors? And make tiles snap to each other?

[@mastr_1325]

Did you find a tutorial?

[@JakeND]

@@mastr_1325 Nope

[@pattech3960]

A curious question about Forest.cs is it an Abstract Class where your other classes like Tree, FactoryTile, Conveyor etc, inherits from Forest.cs class?

[@SintaxErorr]

this probably wont get answers but how did you convert your mouse X,Y into isometric X,Y. im trying to to an isometric thing and ive been struggling with this for like 2 hours now

[@Zawazuki]

hype

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Interesting. First time i've seen a Kanban board (Trello) done right to left instead of left to right.

[@squeakybunny2776]

What difference does it make... Why would one be right and one wrong... There is no such thing as using a trello board the wrong way...

[@WeaselDev]

the scene inspector look scary as frick

[@chaoticprogramming]

I need more conveyer details! I am trying to make my own :(

[@ssjgokuidk119]

Can I possibly have a link to a tutorial on how you made the conveyor belts join up together? Thanks anyways!

[@BWDev]

Hi, unfortunately I don’t know of any tutorials on conveyors, but maybe look into marching squares and linked lists if you want somewhere to start - if you already know those topics just adapt them to make conveyors 😊

[@RohakGaming]

Can you please make a tutorial on how to make a game like this?

[@SamSMBHS]

Hey, how do you handle the items on the conveyer belts? Because checking if the space is free one belt in front obviously doesnt work when this item would be actually moved in the same moment but just hasnt been checked. So do you check the items in an actual order? So if you have 100 items on a belt you would iterate through all 100 every second oder whatever?

[@squeakybunny2776]

Either you iterate using some logic to start with the log furthest up the conveyor belt and then the next each iteration. Or you use a recursive loop that checks if there is a log in the next spot

[@ItsNat21_]

Could you do a tutorial on the building system?

[@khhs]

I can do something like it for you if u want. Just reply with the answer

[@tritanicwolf518]

TRAINS! But... considering conveyer belts are in the game it wouldn’t make much sense.

[@riverpizza-hp2nj]

How do i spell the name of the pixel art drawing program?

[@assa716]

2:35 how meta lol

[@altf4thc]

With this method l, can you have multiple items on a single belt piece or side load items onto another belt as in factorio

[@BWDev]

No but multiple items per belt can be implemented quite easily! And yep side loading is possible using a machine called a combiner which I made in a recent video 👍

[@altf4thc]

@@BWDev thanks for the quick response. I want to learn ecs and I figured a factorioish poc would work well which is how I found your video. I'm having issues coming up with a way to have items move along the belt without doing Collison checks of everything around it. I know factorio somehow only looks at the item ahead of it to check for distance.

[@BWDev]

I’m not sure how factorio’s system works but in mine the conveyors move items from the end first and work backwards, and each conveyor knows whether it is holding an item or not. The next conveyor in the chain just checks whether the next conveyor is holding an item and progresses if not 😊 No colliders or collision checks involved.

[@dreadflint]

@@BWDev Sorry for the late addition, but could you explain how it works backwards? The second half of your comment makes it seem like each conveyor checks the one in front of it independently.

[@BWDev]

Cyber Kingdom I’m actually rewriting the conveyor belt system at the moment so there should be a video explaining it soon 😊 Old system wasn’t as effective as it could have been

[@Famosy1]

Have you discord?