Creating simple car mirror using rendertextures. HOW TO – Right click at Project window, Create / RenderTexture – Rename “New Render Texture” into something else, like “MirrorRT” – Drag & Drop “MirrorRT” into 3D object (preferably some flat object) at scene view (it automatically creates […]

Struggled few hours trying to run oculus exe, Oculus wouldnt turn on (no blue light) when DirectToDrift exe was run. Using Unity5.0.1 (64bit), win7 and Oculus 0.5.0.1-beta unitypackage. Solutions: – Disable “[ ] Show Unity splash screen” from Player settings / Splash Image *If its […]

Collecting links to Unity5 related tips & tricks. Please note that many things could change in the coming versions.. (Feel free to post comments if you find some more tips) > Unity5 Upgrade guide (docs) LIGHTING, GI & BAKING – Slow terrain baking? (forum link) […]

Oculus now works with Unity Indie (free) also! (For example using v4.5.5) Quick start: Register as Oculus developer – https://developer.oculusvr.com/   Connecting the device – Quick start guide: http://static.oculusvr.com/sdk-downloads/documents/DK2_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf – Install Oculus runtime from: https://developer.oculusvr.com/?action=dl – Usually need to restart computer after it’s installed – […]

Started converting this 2D visibility/light script ( http://ncase.me/sight-and-light/ ) to unity, finally some progress! btw. lines are drawn using GLDebug from : http://www.unity3d-france.com/unity/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5409 Unity forum thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/2d-visibility-shadow-free.275698/ — TODO: – Quad segments are currently crossed.. – Fix mesh generation *Temporary fix:  insert extra boxes outside […]

Another fake shadow test.. (similar to the old raycast version, but should work with Physics2D). *This is currently abandoned.. See also: http://unitycoder.com/blog/2014/10/12/2d-visibility-shadow-for-unity-indie/ Info: – Testing PseudoAngle to sort object positions Todo: – Take shadow caster PolygonCollider2D vertices, check which one are visible to play – […]

Testing river mesh generation, idea is from forum topic: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/225561-Is-there-any-way-to-have-a-river-flow-without-flow-maps?p=1502875 Webplayer: http://unitycoder.com/upload/demos/RiverMeshMakerUnity/ Features: – Start point, length, width, segment length, adjustable x-position (middle of the river), in the screenshot using Mathf.Cos(#) – Each piece/segment has UV (0,0 to 1,1) so can scroll the texture to […]

This is another thing that i’ve always wanted to try in Unity, Scorched Earth deformable collapsing terrain (youtube link). Ideas: 1 – Using SetPixels() with texture would most likely be easiest, just slow on bigger resolutions (but no need high resolution for this anyways?) 2 […]

*Unity 4.2 splash image (took few tries to catch it with printscreen..Oo) Download: http://unity3d.com/unity/download/archive Whats new: http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-4.2 Most interesting on first look (for me at least) – Free Basic licenses – Free directional light shadows (one directional light only; hard shadows only) – Shuriken: Collision […]

Converted this script to unity: Basic Illumination Model by andalmeida. Problems / info: – Converted most of the values to floats.. because Mathf.Max() didnt like doubles.. i guess could had made some extension to it.. (maybe thats why there are some artifacts) – Specularity didnt […]