In this tutorial I will explain how to create a realistic looking smoke effects in Unity. It will be your typical upwards smoke, which is ideal for camp-fires, smoky car engines. Basically anything that burns. It's also an effective way to simulate steam (for both 2D and 3D games). Unity uses what is called the 'Shuriken' [...]
Recently I have been working on a 2D platformer which uses the inbuilt Unity Physics and Rigidbodies. One of the challenges I ran into was that when the player moved above a certain velocity, it would sometimes pass through colliders. This would lead to the player getting stuck inside the floor when landing a from a [...]
I've been tinkering with Unity's 2D tooling since it was officially released in v4.3. With each new version we see some improvements in the 2D tools and workflow, but alas it's far from perfect and as a result getting things to work the way you want is all about trial and error. One thing I have learnt quickly [...]
Unity's button / Input system has been the source of confusion for many newcomers. It's no suprise, after all we have GetKey, GetKeyDown, GetKeyUp, GetButton, GetButtonDown, GetButtonUp. So let's try make sense of it all. GetKey / GetKeyDown / GetKeyUp Input.GetKey(...) will be familiar to developers coming from other platforms like Flash. It accepts either a KeyCode parameter [...]
I have recently become an author for the indie game website indiegamebuzz.com. The articles I am writing articles are based on my own experiences and journey, which can hopefully help other developers better their skills and outlook. My latest article is a special one. It runs through 10 key points I personally (try to) abide by to make [...]
I have recently become an author on the website Indie Game Buzz, a new hub for indie developers to hone their game dev skills and stay up to date with the latest news. One of the article I have written is Tips for building your fame as an indie developer. In the article I explain the importance of [...]
It's been a little while now since I wrapped up my last tutorial series, and I want to thank the readers who shared it around Twitter and sent me personal thanks. I love hearing how something I wrote helped somebody better their skills. We have all been there and are upgrading every day! So, to keep [...]
This is the 3rd and final installment in the mini tute series 'Creating 2D Animation States in Unity3D' . You can find previous installments here: Part1 | Part 2 In part 2 we created our Player animations, created an animation controller, organised our animations in the Animator window, and then mapped them to 'Conditions' based on [...]
So the latest game project I have been caught up in for the past few months hit the app store a few days ago. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind launch with a few last minute kinks . Overall it has been a successful launch. No.1 on iTunes and No.4 overall app (beating youtube!) for [...]
This post is part 2 of Understanding and Creating 2d Animation State management in Unity3d, In this tutorial we will be continuing from Part 1 and covering the following topics: Adding the player component Adding an animation State Manager to the player Defining Animation transition rules and parameters Switching between animations at runtime Ok so lets get [...]
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