Sand Box Robot Fire Control

I was able to get the robot working pretty close to the way I originally wanted in that he shoots fire balls in a circular pattern, the only thing is, is that he deliberately targets my player which I did not want I wanted just a random shooting of fire balls in an off set circular pattern. But this does make getting across that mote bridge a lot more difficult which is good in many ways as it should NOT be easy! So I may leave him like this with perhaps a little more tweaking on his fire rate. Right now it's pretty good and gives Bud the Spud a good deal to worry about if he gets close to that bridge entry way. One hit and it's "Mashed" Bud the Spud!

I also added in some Potato Beetles into the Sand Box and placed a key pick up inside of the toy rubber Shark and another key on top of the Sand Castle tower. I placed a health pick up way above the toy Rubber Duck so Bud will have to do a double flip jump in order to get it and I placed an extra life heart on top of the Toy Wooden blocks. Over all I'm pretty happy with the way this level is shaping up. I still need to make the entry and exit scenario but it's getting pretty close to being finished.

I want to add the toy Chattering Teeth character but I'm having difficulty with the way the character works and I'm pretty sure it has to do with my Max 8 exporting my FBX files out as "Z" up instead of "Y" up, the exporter says it's exporting as "Y" up but when I get it into Unity 3D it shows up as "Z" up?? Very frustrating I can tell you because I'm sure this is the reason it's making my code not work as it should. It seems that if bud gets attacked with his back facing the enemy then he takes damage but if he is facing the enemy then those toy teeth could chomp away all day and do no damage??? I have NO idea why this is the case but it's putting a block on my progress here. I tried re installing Max 8 today to see if maybe that would fix the problem... it didn't, so I'll keep at trying to figure out what that Frack the problem is while I work on getting some of the other stuff done I need doing.

Chattering Toy Teeth Character

I've been putting the final touches on the code for the "Chattering Toy Teeth" character. It's almost done, just fine tuning it to match up with sounds and working out the characters death setup for when Bud the Spud jumps on him. I'm making him similar to the Potato Beetles in that it will take Bud two jumps to defeat this enemy. Because he has a top and lower jaw section I'm not sure how that will workout but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

I've been having some export issues with Max 8 lately, for some reason when I export out as FBX with the Y set to Up when it shows up inside of unity it's still Z up?? Very strange. So I've had to use my fix that I ended up using for my Alien Zombies a while back where I had to place my character inside of an empty game object and reference the animation to the model inside of that object. I have no idea why Max 8 suddenly decided to muck up my exports when they were working fine before?? 

Jack in a Box re Texturing

I figured I might as well get right to it and re texture map the "Jack in a Box" with new maps that I can use. I still pulled some google images to use as a basis for my maps but I gave them a jolly good reworking in Corel Painter so now they are original enough for me to be able to use and redistribute with my model. In some way it was kind of a shame as I had grown quite fond of the maps I was originally using but I'm very satisfied with these, they have a more hand painted look and I tried to keep the overall painting style consistent, it also gave me a chance to fix up some areas of the texture map that I was not 100 percent happy with from the first batch of textures I was using.

I'm still having that freaking import issue from Max 8 into Unity 3D with it buggering up my head of my Jack in a Box and flipping the normals in a very weird way that it also affect the direction the light hits the head part of the model as well... really do not know how to fix that. But last night I did a little experimenting and I found that if I use the Nature soft occlusion leaves material, (it's the wrong texture I know but the only one I could think of that was double sided), tweak the setting and place a point light inside of the head that I can make it look somewhat passable if I have too... but I would rather that the Fracking problem fixed. After this post it will be some more searching on the web to see what I can find out from anyone else who is suffering from the same stoooopid issue... C'mon Unity Fix your Fracking Software!! 

Max 8 to Unity 3D Normals Problem

OK I've run into this before a few time and the usual way it's fixed is to go back into Max 8 and select the parts that are causing the problem and click on polygons and select all and then flip them and re import the model back into Unity 3D. But this time it's not working!!

Here you can see in the "Preview pane" (Lower right hand corner) that the model looks fine but in the scene view (Upper Left Hand corner) you can see that the "Normals" are "Flipped" not only are they flipped but they are catching the light wrong too!! WTF, this must be another fine Unity bug in the latest version.
I've tried reimporting the model several different ways even just dragging in the native Max 8 file and nothing seems to be fixing this rather annoying problem. I tried flipping the normals on the head in Max 8 and re Unwrap UVW mapping the head again to no avail?? I've been at this all day trying to figure it out.