April 2015 - An Introduction to Unity 3D for C# Experts

Presentation:
With your awesome C# skills, you can quickly and easy form building blocks for websites, applications and tools. Unity3D will extend those blocks to include a 3D environment that runs in Web Browsers, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhones, Nintendo, Xbox, Play Station, Ouya, Windows phone and more. You don’t have to give up Visual Studio either and it is not limited to Games. Unity 3D is used businesses, doctors, teachers and more.

This fast paced introduction will get your feet in the following doors:

• How the Unity IDE works to quickly put together games.
• How to create Components for Designers to use.
• What “wheels” unity provides, so you don’t have to reinvent them, like Physics, Shaders, Lighting, Terrain, UI Components
  *How to talk to services.
  *Best C# Practices and .Net Limitations in Unity

About: Dan Violet Sagmiller

Dan Violet Sagmiller, Senior Unity 3D Developer @ InContext Solutions.

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• Advisor/SME to the UN/Masanga hospital in Sierra Leone for training medical staff in working with Ebola patients.

• Using Unity/Video based training

• 17+ years professional development, some overseas.

• InContext Solutions, Microsoft, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Porsche, Best Buy, State Farm, Johnson Controls, Ikadega and others

• Taught Game and Business programming at multiple colleges / schools

• Hartland Community College, Bellevue College, DigiPen and Learn Build Play

• Published Books:

*Unity AI Programming Essentials (https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-ai-programming-essentials)
*Indie Game Development with C# and XNA (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Indie-Game-Development-with-C-XNA)

• Presently developing training materials for both Lynda.com and PluralSight

• Successful Kick Starter for a Unity AI (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1667690760/creating-a-3d-flying-version-of-boxcar2d) that automatically stabilizes ships of random shape/size.

Email: Dan.Sagmiller@LearnBuildPlay.com

Meeting Sponsors:
Incontext Solutions (http://www.incontextsolutions.com/)
Thomson Reuters (http://www.thomsonreuters.com/)

Event Location:
Thomson Reuters
Town Hall
450 North Sunny Slope Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
(Park in lot near the western most entrance.)
Map and Directions (http://binged.it/1lvERru)

** The red star on the map shows the meeting entrance.

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