After a few revisions, Tactica has launched the updated Rabbit Fall game – a chance to explore the town of Rabbit Fall while at the same time embarking on a quest to save the town. Dynamic cut scenes in Unity have given us the opportunity to add some great video content without negatively impacting download [...]
Just days away now, Tactica is about to launch a first person game exploring the town of Rabbit Fall. Set as a straight-forward rpg, the story is driven by a series of cut scenes. While more common to see movieTextures within Unity used on models, applying dynamically loaded WWW driven textures into a GUITexture provides [...]
Or in this case, which comes first – the gameplay or the asset creation.
In the case of the folks at Digital Roar, it looks like they’ve gone the route of pursuing asset creation first, and initial impressions are that the game has some promise from a visual standpoint:
http://www.ascensionwar.com/media/screenshots/default.html
And from the Unity Forum post, it looks [...]
Another developer Shane at Cogmation showed me this today, and it’s worth mentioning as it may come in handy, if at a cost. To flip an imported 3D mesh along any axis, just change the scale to a negative value.
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make you slap your forehead.
I realize all the 3D people [...]
So, you’ll find the childCount property documented, but what you won’t find in the documentation is GetChild(). According to the forums, the reason it’s been left out is because of unpredictability – the array of children is not guaranteed to be in a consistent order. However, that’s not to say that it can’t still [...]
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 [...]
