A physics problem typically involves using a given angle and velocity to determine where a projectile lands. This is all well and good, but when working on a game with projectiles, you already know where it should land and at what angle it should be launched. This article shows the…
The Unity documentation [http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Scripting.html] it indicates that all public variables are made available in the inspector for direct editing. While this is handy, it is also dangerous. This article will cover a few things regarding public variables, and how to avoid them in…
Long compile times are a real chore when it comes to testing things. It is especially cumbersome when all you are doing is making small edits resulting in 2 seconds worth of editing, and 2 minutes waiting for compiling. Problem One place where this is particularly the case is shader…
To expand on my post about enumerations [http://www.plantingcode.me/2012/11/02/enumerate-enumerate/earlier] I'm going to look at Finite State Machines in a relatively general sense. Let's start with breaking down what exactly a Finite State Machine is. We can look at the descriptive words to see…
There are a few things that you will want to keep in mind when working with touch in Unity. Mobile devices pass click events with their touch events, platform dependent compilation, rotations are a special type all their own, sometimes Unity hands back one thing when you need another, collisions…