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 […]

Tried to test idea about tube lights (or “line light”), by using custom lighting in shader, you could sample the light several times from different positions/angles, so that it looks like the light is not just a single point. (not really working here properly yet, […]

Tried to get world position from depth texture, but it didn’t work.. then founded COMPUTE_DEPTH_01 instead, makes nice curve effect when applied to meshes (pushing the y vertices down based on depth).. although breaks a bit depending on camera rotation/position.. Shader source: https://github.com/UnityCommunity/UnityLibrary/blob/master/Shaders/Vertex/UnlitFakeCurved.shader without curve-shader: […]