At first I wasn’t thrilled about public variables being exposed in Unity’s editor – it seemed to be a bit dangerous, burying variable within GUI elements. Reminded me too much of hunting through Flash MovieClips for code snippets. And if you’re not careful, you will get burned. For example, public int exposedInt = 100; at [...]
Yesterday, myself and two of the other partners from Cogmation hosted a New Media Manitoba presentation discussing the evolution of our business, as well as a few short demos of robotFoundry, robotSim and the multi-player video game that we have developed.
NMM events are a great place to present a new product or idea, as those [...]
So I’ve begun work on bringing a humanoid into the simulator, starting with RoboNova. It’s a good humanoid to start with, no ball joints at least. I have to admit, the robot in real life is pretty impressive and functions well. Adding the humanoid means a new set of challenges – specifically the weighting of [...]
Whenever someone asks me to work on a Flash project that someone else started, I try really hard to wake up. It’s never good. I try to kid myself that maybe the code will be organized, maybe there will be comments, maybe I won’t find anything held together with duct tape. Ok, once or twice [...]
