Tried to do this shader mentioned in the forums (link), to have a Bloom image effect only on certain sprites. See main image^ 2 same sprites, different material, so only 1 gets bloomed (even though the Bloom is full screen image effect) Instructions: – Download […]

Testing what happens if add clip(discard), remove transparency and remove color tint from default Sprite Shader.. Just wanted to see if there is big difference or not, but seems like no huge difference on PC (asus laptop, gtx970m), unless you have thousands of sprites on […]

Tried to re-create this Autodesk Stingray scene in unity using only primitives, substance materials and image effects: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/can-unity-duplicate-the-look-of-stingrays-subway-example-including-the-real-time-reflections.425727/ Video clip:    

(screenshot with Quad mesh placed on top of Plane with raycast hit.point) If you want to use Raycast hit.point to place quad on a flat surface, it will most likely create Z fighting issue.. You could add position offset by hit.point+Vector3(0,0.1f,0), Or use modified shader […]

Had a strange looking error today: Turns out it was just that the function which was called inside vertex shader, was below the vertex shader, so just moved it above the v2f vert (appdata v) and it works.. *Actually it was more complicated: This one […]

Woaaah! Been waiting for this feature since VB5.. to have unity enter playmode with F5 key! *Same key can be used to stop play mode also Founded pretty much ready script from unity answers, removed the secondary shortcut and added check for if in playmode, […]

“RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool” Getting Started – Download standalone https://renderdoc.org/builds – Install it – Start Unity 5.3 or later (I tested with 5.4beta.f2) – Right click over the Game- or Scenewindow title, RenderDoc option should be displayed in the menu, Select it […]

Simple example to decode QRCode from texture image. – Download XZing.net from http://zxingnet.codeplex.com/ – Unzip, Copy zxing.unity.dll from Unity/ folder into your Unity project (create Plugins/ folder and place the dll there) – Download some QRCode image, like: – Create new script (see source below) […]

Suddenly started getting these error messages on device (build worked fine otherwise, but tcp socket stopped working) You can view device log with command line> adb logcat -s Unity ActivityManager PackageManager dalvikvm DEBUG Solutions: – Use IL2CPP build instead of Mono2x – Or, set Stripping […]

24hrs downtime oO, oh-no.. what to do in the meantime? – Watch new Unite Videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/Unity3D/videos – StackOverFlow Unity : http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=unity3d – Try the new 2D Preview build, tilemaps are fun : http://forum.unity3d.com/forums/2d-experimental-preview.104/ – Coding challenges: https://www.codingame.com/ , https://www.hackerrank.com/   #sadpanda #fails Vote here to revert […]