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Move object to position using velocity [duplicate]

I'm trying to make a simple object move to a desired location using its velocity. But I'm having trouble with it over shooting its target. I have to use velocity, I can't simply lerp the position, ...
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Odd errors w/ disabling game objects with C Sharp in Unity

I'm having problems with properly disabling game objects in Unity. Right now, they're disabling, but I get a "NullReferenveException" error whenever the first object to be disabled is disabled. The ...
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Unity game engine javascript pickle [closed]

I want to import my nearly-ready game scene from Blender to Unity. I have my own format to store my data from the game worlds. I serialised it with Python's pickle module, because I couldn't find (I ...
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Mouse Aiming Causing Rotation Jitter

When our game's ships move around, mouse aiming causes them to shake around a lot. The body being aimed is moved kinematically. I think we've narrowed it down to this block of mouse tracking code. ...
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AI for mass battles in Unity [closed]

I'm looking at building a game where there are many large battles controlled in an RTS like way. When I say large I'm talking 100's in the battle in multiple teams. My question is what is the best way ...
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Unity3D custom camera matrix breaking shadows/lights in deferred rendering

EDIT 1: So it seems this is a common issue with Unity, and it comes from a bug in which custom camera matrices break deferred lighting and shadows. This topic right here talks about it a bit, but the ...
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Unity3D How too write to the back buffer AFTER the final pass of deferred rendering

I've been using this script and shader from the wiki, and they work wonders; my only problem is using them in deferred rendering. Now, the way this shader works is by writing to the depth buffer to ...
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Playing different particle effects in Unity on the same ParticleSystem

The question really sums it up: What is the best way to use one particle system for playing different particle effects? The scenario: GameObject is picked up and it starts playing a simple indicator ...
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Translating an object with a joypad

I'm trying to move a 3D plane with my mouse joysticks. At the moment my code, inside the Update method, is as follows: xMin1 += Input.GetAxisRaw("LeftRight"); yMin1 += Input.GetAxisRaw("UpDown"); ...
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Should I use a SQLite for this game? [closed]

I'm planning a board+trading card game. It's exactly the same game as Hero Academy, but with trading cards, and customisable decks. I'm in the Software Design phase, and I'm thinking about using ...
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Stitching meshes together

I have a voxel engine that generates a mesh per chunk and now I want my meshes to be 1 mesh, but if I create them as a single mesh I kind of lose the benefit of chunking the data in the first place. ...
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Producing a smooth mesh from density cloud and marching cubes

Based on my results from this question I decided to build myself a 3D noise map containing float values in place of my existing boolean point values. The effect I'm trying to produce is something like ...
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Server Based High Scores

I'm currently using the following MySQL example to make a server side high score table: Unity Server Side high score The above example allows me to create a top 5 player high score table that sorts ...
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Understanding marching cubes and voxel data relationships

in case it matters i'm doing all this in unity with C# ... I think I missed something or maybe don't understand the logic correctly. I have an existing voxel engine that looks very "minecrafty" at ...
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How to blend two cameras when traveling through a portal in Unity3D

Before I get to my question, I know the most obvious solution would be to use the normalized view port rect, however I need more complex shapes than a rectangle, and I've looked in to using the view ...
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How to optimise mesh data

So i have some procedurally generated mesh data and i want to reduce it down to its minimum number of verts. In case it matters this is a unity project. Working on the basis of a simple example, ...
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Defining a random irregular shape in a bool array

I need to find out how to populate an array bool[x,y] with a random filled shape. lets say I want a triangle depicted in my array i would define an area within the array and set all points to "true" ...
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Player positions in a race game through arrays or…?

First time posting on these forums so go easy on me! I've been programming a race game which has been going quite well. I've just discovered now how hard it is to set up player positions!(As in 1st, ...
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Why does this Unity code work as expected only with the while loop?

In unity, in C#, I have the following code in Awake(): Awake() { Transform obj = InstantiateTarget(); //the bizarrely required and "working" loop while (transform.childCount > 0) { ...
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Lerp an object based on timers

I'm trying to make a target lerp between two objects based on a timer. At the moment, I have the following code: float distCovered = (Time.time - waitTime) * speed; float fracJourney = ...
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Can I transfer C# coding I do in Unity for practice to another 3d engine?

If I use a C# coding in Unity 4, can I transfer that coding into another non-Unity engine as long as it accepts C# too? I hope this question makes sense. Thank you in advance.
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Moving character on x axis

I am new to unity scripting. I am trying to move my character towards right side(on x-axis) to create a running effect, I've imported the character from blender which contains two animations, "jump" ...
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Accessing Bluetooth data via SerialPort (Unity/C#)

So I'm working in Unity3D, programming in C#, and I heard that one can read data from a Bluetooth adaptor via SerialPort. I have several Bluetooth USB adaptors that I've tried to connect on my PC ...
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Spawning enemies at way points [closed]

I'm trying to have my game spawn enemies when ever the player reaches a way point. Right now, I have this functionality working. When my player gets to the first way, the enemies spawn. He only moves ...
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Getting correct angles between Vector3s

I'm working on a project where you can draw lines between points. You select one point and drag the mouse onto another point and a line is drawn between them. The line itself is a 3d object which is ...
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I want to start making 2D Games with C++ or #C [closed]

I know C++ pretty well, I think - polymorphism, vectors, templates, and more. I also know C#. I want to program a 2D game, but not like those programs where you click a button or two, and you ...
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Rotate object to always face camera

I'm trying to make a TextMesh appear when ever an enemy prefab is hit. I currently have this functionality working. However, the text doesn't face the direction the players camera is looking. At the ...
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Mixing animations

I'm working on a swing animation and mixing it with a turn animation in a motorcycle game. The issue is that for the swing animation to work while turning only the swinging arm has to animation, ...
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Quit the application when clicking cancel button of Alert View in C#

Can someone guide me as to how can I make an application quit when you press the cancel button of an Alert View in C# code? Thanks I forgot to add that I am trying to quit application on clicking ...
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Mixing threads and coroutines in Unity3D Mobile

I had a coroutine in Unity3D that downloaded a zip from a server, extracted it to the persistent data path, and loaded its contents into memory. The flow looked something like this: IEnumerator ...
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Translating a terrains position using input in Unity 3D C#

I am trying to make a terrain in Unity move, but im having trouble. Here's the code i have. using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class NewScript : MonoBehaviour { Camera camera; ...
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Shooting Bullets Around a Sphere

I currently have a ship that can orbit around a sphere freely controlled by a joystick. There is a separate joystick that controls the gun and starts shooting when it is touched. Right now the ...
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Unity3D Camera constantly moving

I'm trying to make my own first person camera controls in unity that use both thumbsticks on a joypad. I have this working fine. However, when I move the right thumb stick (the one uses to look left / ...
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How do I set up in-app purchasing in iOS?

I am using Unity and I developing an app for iOS. How do I implement in-app purchases that work world-wide?
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Two characters controlled by one set of controls? [closed]

I am using Unity 3D to make a multiplayer game using the Photon Network package in the asset store. I have initiated two characters controlled by a Mecanim script, and they both have animations. ...
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Unity3D smooth movement with joypad button press

First off, I'm sorry this is such a silly question, but for the life of me I can't seem to get it to work. And I've just spent the last hour trying to do so. All I want to do is have my camera move ...
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Sound activated particlesystem

I am trying to make a particle system that is activated by sound. Like emitting on the beat resizing on the beat and such things. I found some nice tutorials on how to make things like ...
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Sceneview Lags when using Arrays

I'm getting a strange behavior here - when i create a simple C# script which holds an Array of classes, where both, the script class and the array classes, are marked as Serializable, my sceneview ...
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Unity3D GUILayout Window Wont Show Components

I am fairly new to Unity, but picking things up quick. This is actually one of the first problems I have come across that has me stumped. I am trying to print a good amount of components onto my GUI ...
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Move Object Around Sphere in Unity3D

I am trying to get a GameObject to be able to be controlled to move freely around a sphere using a virtual on-screen joystick. I am building this for iOS and Android in Unity. I am using the standard ...
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Dynamically save an assetbundle during run time

I'm wondering if it is possible to dynamically save / amend a current asset bundle during the running of my Unity application. I've been looking into this for a few hours, but can't find anything ...
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Detecting Light Intensity Around Characters

Later Edit Since there seemed to be a bit of confusion: I am asking this for purely didactic reasons, I'm not searching for the most efficient solution. Reformulated question: I'm working under ...
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How do I properly use particle simulation in Unity?

So I'm using Unity's simulate function to pre-render particles. It seems that simulate is not quite working as to what I expect. It's most likely a setting that I missed. But I just really cannot find ...
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Unity - Mesh Deforms terribly while mixing animations

I have a simple game I'm working on to help me learn unity3d. In my Start() function, I've used the following code to set up my animations. walkAnimation = animation["Walk"]; ...
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How to make my characters turn smoothy while walking on a path(list of coordinates)?

I have a list with coordinates - output from A* algorithm - and I would like to make my characters smoothly follow this path with rotations. So I have something like A and I want to get C How can ...
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Lights shining through walls

I'm currently having a problem with lights in Unity. They shine through walls for some reason. Point, directional, etc. If a light is next to a wall on one side, you can see it on the floor on the ...
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Unity3d generating a file in iOS and saving it on a linux machine

I've done a little research and don't know if the following is possible. At the moment I have created a small application in Unity that generates an XML file. This file will be used to help set up ...
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Writing to XML issue Unity3D C#

I'm trying to create a tool using Unity to generate an XML file for use in another project. Now, please, before someone suggests I do it in something, the reason I am using Unity is that it allows me ...
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UnityEngine.Vector2 does not contian a definition for “Set”… using futile

I am a bit lost, I am using futile and I am just trying to run the demo. But I keep getting UnityEngine.Vector2 does not contian a definition for "Set" in just one class, my using statments are: ...
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Can I develop 2D tower defense game with unit3D in C# for Android? [closed]

I tried to find the answer in unity3d site but without success. If the answer to my question is yes, does anyone know where I can find an example?

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