The Comprehensive Guide to Scene Kit - 3D iOS Development (Udemy.com)

Goog course for learning the basics but actualy outdated with the last section/minigame who doesnt work properly... But its ok for the price I think, I improved my skills on SceneKit anyway

The information is solid and still useful with some small changes. My biggest obstacle is the waste of screen space. You should in the future collapse the side navigators and use a larger font. A few programming errors/changes as the categories even though int need to be incremented by binary equilivents ex 1,2,4,8,16. Scaling the image doesn't scale the physics so you need to create a shape for the physics body.

I feel the writer of this course did an overall good job but I found a few things missing. Explanation as to why he chose a particular magic number as oppose to just blindly write values and magic functions without much explanation made it harder to understand. Also certain properties were set on particular objects that require people to google while he could have went over each one briefly just to explain what each one is in laymans terms to save the listener time. The stuff that I find to be very important and was missing to make this course "comprehensive": 1) missing explanation of .dae format and how certain models are made and exported into .dae something we as developers should know to tell asset designers how to create assets and scenes to be used. 2) I would have found an actual character animation quite useful. Different states (idle, walk, attack etc) to cover how to rigging works within scenekit. The course only covers static objects with the plane propeller exception 3) HUD design was not really addressed

OK. I like the examples and the paste of the course. I could follow the course properly. But the code is updated and you can not run the projects anymore from provided resources. The last project does not run at all when following instructions because the engine API must have changed. Also, the code given by the instructor is very messy and hard to debug, full of side effects and lengthy functions that do many unrelated things. Please don't write your code like that.

This course is outdated, I had to update his code to Swift 4.2 and iOS 12.1 a relatively easy task. I wish the author would have talked about SCNProgram with Metal shaders and update his course to include ARKit. The course is well thought and comprenhensive I would highly recommend it to any serious iOS game developer. Thank you Ibram

The instructor does a fantastic job and the content is valuable. It's a great course. I highly recommend. Bear in mind the course is at least two iOS versions old, so there is a bit of a difference. Downloading the source as a starting point requires some updating to get it to compile. Additionally, the last course seems to have a collision issue. Despite this the course is well worth the time and money. It's fantastic!

Great in-depth walk through the concepts with clear explanations of the building blocks used to create a real project. It even includes challenges for you to try and do yourself. Only feedback is I wish the instructor would explain a little more how he finds some of the values for setting up the locations of items. It would also be nicer to do a more "refactoring" based coding approach rather than just peeling off layers from the final solution and showing us one thing at a time.

The content of this course is excellent and voluminous. The code is out of date, however. Xcode will convert the code to Swift 3 and automatically update most of it for you. If you plan to type along as the code is presented, be prepared to pause the video constantly in order to keep up. Instructor hasn't answered any forum questions for the past 5 months.

At first I wanted to give 5 stars, because the explanations are absolutely clear, the steps forward are straight and there is a great relation between theory, explaining concepts on the one side and pragmatic live coding solving practical problems on the other hand. Almost perfect, but there is one showstopper: Some aspects of the challenges, that I mostly liked, had huge demotivating parts. For example you load a Node from DAE.File and it looks very strange on the scene. There was NO EXPLANATION WHY and NO EXPLANATION why a specific rotation, scaling or positioning (with very specific values, sometimes in combination) is the solution. You can't figure out, why a scaling factor of 0.125 is the solution, this is demotivating from my point of view. The language is perfectly to understand also for non-native (english) speakers. One last complaint: After 40 lessons I started to hate the intro music for the lessons, annoying. But to sum up: This is a very cool course and you can learn a lot.

I have never seen such an in-depth course for SceneKit before. I had always wondered how to get started with it, but never could because there isn't enough information/tutorials on it on the web. This course was the kickstart I needed. There was only 1 thing I didn't like! And that was that he moved very quickly. If your typing speed isn't superhuman, you will constantly have to play and pause the video to copy what he wrote. However, this is not a complete setback. I, for one, am simply fast at typing, and had no hard time with it. I liked this speed much better than the slow and time-consuming typers who make tutorials. Also, because of his speeding up the typing, he was able to pack a lot more code and explanation into the short videos. I would suggest getting this course if you would like to get started with SceneKit. It is all the way from first-timer to an Intermediate level. If you are slow to learn, this is not the course for you. But if you are already pretty advanced at SceneKit, this may also not be the course for you. (P.S. – This course has a brief introduction to SpriteKit, too!)