Jun 21, 2021Unity Quick Tip: Context MenusI’ve been using unity’s new input system a lot lately and one thing that has been a pain is quickly testing a function. In the old input system I would do something like: That no longer works if you are using the new input system and you will get a…Unity2 min readUnity2 min read
May 5, 2021Multi-Type Monsters! A Look at Enums with Flags Attribute.Recently as a challenge I tried to create a Pokémon battle system relying heavily on scriptable objects. I had a general idea of how everything worked and I figured it would be a fun deep dive. An interesting wall I hit was when it came to monster types. …Unity4 min readUnity4 min read
Mar 23, 2021Camera Facing Health Bar System With ShaderGraphToday we are going to look at building a health bar, that constantly faces the camera. This is called a “billboard” effect, which is commonly used in particle systems. We will accomplish everything in ShaderGraph, including the billboard. I followed two separate tutorials to get the health bar working, and…6 min read6 min read
Mar 18, 2021Get Component vs Actions: A Deep DiveThis whole adventure started out when I was reviewing a few students code, and saw how they were calling functions on other objects during an on trigger enter call. On trigger enter, they sent out an event passing in the other collider from the trigger, and then each subscriber compared…Unity5 min readUnity5 min read
Published inAR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine·Mar 10, 2021Unity: Building Your Finished Quest ProjectYou did it! Your project is finished and its time to build the application! Lets take a look at building for PCVR, and to run standalone in the headset. PCVR: Building for PCVR is very straightforward. Make sure you are on PC, Mac, & Linux standalone for your build platform…Unity3d4 min readUnity3d4 min read
Published inAR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine·Mar 8, 2021Basics of Hand Interactions in VRWhen working with VR, the most common way of interacting with the world is through the players hands. Whether is throwing, climbing, or shooting, we use the hands positional data along with along with inputs via the triggers and buttons to let the player interact with the game. But how…VR5 min readVR5 min read
Feb 20, 2021Extending The OVRGrabberWhen working with frameworks, the last thing we want to do is directly edit the code in them, but sometime it just doesn’t have all the tools you need! Sometimes there are bits that are problematic or don’t quite work situationally. …7 min read7 min read
Feb 15, 2021Unity OVR Physics Based InteractionsLets get some physics based interactions going in Unity with Oculus’ OVR SDK. If you have tried doing this with an OVR grabbable right out of the box, you’ll notice that it does not work as expected. Today we will be focusing on a hinge joint interaction. In our case…Oculus5 min readOculus5 min read
Dec 16, 2020Unity Trajectory Prediction (Simulation Method)Trajectory prediction is a feature that is used so often in many different applications and games, and so regularly that one would think its a pretty simple process to implement. At least I did. When it came time to create the feature in a small mobile game I’m working on…Unity7 min readUnity7 min read
Dec 8, 2020Basic Game States and Creating a Day/Night CycleWhat is a state? A state is a variable that modifies one or multiple behaviors or actions. There are many different ways we use states, in creating enemy behaviors we use behavior states such as attacking, fleeing, patrolling, or chasing. If you were flipping a switch we could have an…6 min read6 min read
