Unity is a highly cross-platform engine that focuses on easy art pipeline process and uses Mono as its scripting back end.
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Best place for learning how to write games in Unity3d [closed]
What's the best place for tutorials & other learning resources for unity3d?
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Ledge grab and climb in Unity3D
I just started on a new project. In this project one of the main gameplay mechanics is that you can grab a ledge on certain points in a level and hang on to it.
Now my question, since I've been ...
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Unreal Engine 3 vs id Tech 3 vs Unity [closed]
I'm trying to decide which engine I should start using to try to start building a game in.
I had chosen Unity, but upon hearing that Unreal Engine 3 had just become kinda free to use, I found myself ...
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Calculating missile trajectory around orbits before shooting
I'm building a game with Unity3D. It's a Gravity Wars clone. Both player and AI turrets shoot missiles at each other (giving an Angle and a Power variables), trying not to crash missiles on planets.
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How can I prevent seams from showing up on objects using lower mipmap levels?
Disclaimer: kindly right click on the images and open them separately so that they're at full size, as there are fine details which don't show up otherwise. Thank you.
I made a simple Blender model, ...
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What is grid in Unity and how can I implement it?
I'm a beginner. I need to place a grid on my map in Unity and would like to access it to place a simple object on mouse click. How can I achieve this ?
I am unable to understand the grid ...
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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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Unity3d select empty gameobjects in scene
I have a pathing system that I am creating in Unity. When you add nodes to denote the path, I create a empty GameObject and render it in OnGUI as a square. The problem that I have is clicking on the ...
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Architecture of “doodle jump” type gameplay infinite looping background
I am planning make a doodle jump type game, character jumping on platforms. A scrolling or doodle jump like background which ll appear to move when character moves upward and appear moving (just like ...
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Unity 3d auto-move player forward script
Trying to write a basic script to attach to the player on Unity 3D, I want them to move forward automatically. I'm guessing that will be part of the Update function and using transform, but that's ...
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How to add render able Texture in Unity 3d for iOS
I want to render an image on texture which should be stuck at one point, not stuck with Camera. I don't know how to accomplish this task because I started unity a week ago but I want to do this task ...
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What are the pro/cons of Unity3D as a choice to make games?
We are doing our school project with Unity3d, since they were using Shiva the previous year (which seems horrible to me), and I wanted to know your point of view for this tool.
Pros:
multi ...
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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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Algorithm for creating spheres?
Does anyone have an algorithm for creating a sphere proceduraly with la amount of latitude lines, lo amount of longitude lines, and a radius of r? I need it to work with Unity, so the vertex positions ...
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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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Can I do server side programming with unity?
Another thought to my last question. If i were to do a client/server game with unity3d would i be able to do serverside programming with unity? if not can i use C# .net? if not then is there some sort ...
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Creating custom collision map for 2D
I have a 2D level that I have built in my map editor, and I was wondering the best way to create a collision map for it.
I have a collision map layer in my map editor, which saves each node (for ...
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Unity on Facebook?
Hey, I know Flash works using Facebook, and I think I've seen some Java stuff on there too, but does anyone know if the Unity Player can be used in Facebook?
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How can I get voice recognition features into the Unity Game Engine?
How can I get voice recognition features into the Unity Game Engine? Is there a plug-in or a framework (hopefully freeware) that I could use? If so, do you have any ideas on how to install it? Also, ...
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Why does Unity3D crash in VirtualBox?
I'm running Unity3D in a virtual instance of Windows, using the Virtual Box software on Linux. I have guest additions installed with DirectX support. I've tried using Windows XP SP3 32-bit, and ...
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[Unity] Render an animated texture to a screen
I'm looking for a way to write a typed text on a texture, and then render it on a screen: in the game it's just the screen of a computer where a scientist is typing text on.
The texture will be ...
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Best algorithm for recursive adjacent tiles?
In my game I have a set of tiles placed in a 2D array marked by their Xs and Zs ([1,1],[1,2], etc).
Now, I want a sort of "Paint Bucket" mechanism: Selecting a tile will destroy all adjacent tiles ...
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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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Ignore collisions with some objects in certain contexts
I'm making a racing game with cars in Unity. The car has a boost/nitro powerup. While boosting, I wouldn't want to be deviated when colliding with zombies, but I do want to be deviated when colliding ...
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Does Unity for PC use Direct3D or OpenGL?
I am a mac developer using Unity and I hardly use a PC. When you build a Unity game for Windows, does it use Direct3D or OpenGL?
P.S. I'm not sure if it's called Direct3D or DirectX
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Can I write plugin/extension to Unity editor?
Is there possiblity to write my own plugin/extension to Unity editor ? I want to write plugin to generate map for me from xml file.
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How to create mipmap for Unity3d textures loaded with www?
When I load a texture using the code below:
WWW www = new WWW(textureName);
yield return www;
renderer.material = new Material(Shader.Find("Diffuse"));
Texture tex = www.texture;
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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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Is it possible to export a simulation (animation) from Blender to Unity?
I created an explosion animation within Blender, something as shown in this video. To achieve this I used a particle-system, together with the "Explode" modifier.
This kind of animation (simulation) ...
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How can I specify which enemies to spawn for each round in a tower defense?
I am making a TD game in Unity, and I would like to know the most common approach to spawning enemies each round. I have more than 200 rounds per map, just like Fieldrunners.
Is it some kind of ...
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Volumetric Fog Shader - Camera Issue
I am trying to build an infinite fog shader. This fog is applied on a 3D plane.
For the moment I have a Z-Depth Fog. And I encounter some issues.
As you can see in the screenshot, there are two views.
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How to adjust the shooting angle of an object
I've been trying to add an angle adjustment feature to a power bar that I got from unity3dStudents. But I can't seem to get the code right. I'm using addforce to rigidbody, it works but the power is ...
