Unity Keyboard Shortcuts for Faster Game Development Introduction Keyboard shortcuts offer quick access to often used tools and features within an application. Getting to know Unity’s keyboard shortcuts will lead to faster game development. Memorizing just a few of these will have you zooming through the Unity editor with such ease and fluidity some might …
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Animate a Character with Unity’s 2D Animation Package Introduction Learning how to animate a character is a pivotal part of creating a game. Animations breathe life into your game and can influence a player’s emotions and responses. Have a character wince when they get hurt and the player instantly understands what happened and that they …
Tips and Tricks: Unity 2D PSD Importer Introduction Creating game art or assets is a pivotal part of the game development process. The art direction of the game directly influences the player’s sense of power, immersion in the game world, and emotions. Great game art will pull new players in while bad game art will …
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How to Pass Parameters with ScriptableObject Events Introduction Events are an essential component in having clean, understandable, modular, and encapsulated code. They allow you to decouple scripts and Classes from one another. Events are like mailing lists. When the event is triggered a message is sent out to everyone that has subscribed to the event’s …
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Tips and Tricks: Unity Lerp Introduction Using Unity’s Lerp methods can be quite confusing and error prone if done incorrectly. Despite this they are a vital part of creating a game. Allowing for smooth movement and transitions between things like positions, rotations, and even colors. You may want to use a lerp to fade the …
Tips and Tricks: Unity Quaternion Introduction Turning and rotating are pretty common aspects in a game. Players will rotate to look at things, enemies will turn to attack the player, and sometimes things will spin around when launched through the air. Knowing how to rotate things when making games in Unity is key to creating …
Tips and Tricks: Unity Transparent Material Introduction Oftentimes when creating a game, you will need to create transparent objects. This can be anything from glass windows, walls, ice or maybe just a see-through treasure chest to entice the player to open it. Making an object see through requires using Unity’s transparent materials. To create a …
How to Change a Cube’s Color in Unity Introduction Many prototypes or first time users will often use Unity’s default cube as a placeholder for their player or other objects in their game world. This cube can look extremely plain and boring to look at. The problem becomes even worse when you add multiple cubes …
The Companion Interview With Developer David Fazzio A Beginning Awoken by a soft whisper, your eyes focus in on the baby blue sky, evergreen trees, and shimmering towers in the distance. You are floating through the air, a stream of particles left behind like that of a candle blowing in the wind. You drift to …
Tips and Tricks: Unity’s Color32 Introduction Unity’s Color32 takes a 32 bit RGBA value and converts it into a color. Giving you more precision when setting the colors in your game. Each RGBA value has a min value of 0 and a maximum value of 255. This allows for greater control over your color value …
