Richer Media with Dynamically Loading Cut Scenes

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 an efficient way to increase the content of an online game, without adding download time. The exciting part of pulling videos from... Read More

Fun with Exposed Variables in Unity

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 the top of your class rather than assigning the variable within the constructor can cause considerable... Read More