Unity3D

Great Reads

by LLLLGGGG

In this article, I am going to explain how to generate a hexagonal tessellation and how to draw it in Unity 3D

Introduction to HoloLens Development with UWP

by Joel Ivory Johnson

In this article I take a look at setting up a system for HoloLens development, the compatibility of the applications with other UWP platforms, and introduce Unity for making a 3D application

Day 13: Attacking Enemies, Health System, and Death Animation in Unity

by IAmJoshChang

Attacking enemies, health system and death animation in Unity

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

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Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

IoT-VR with Unity, Intel Edison

by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy, Moumita Das

Virtual Reality with Unity, Intel Edison and MQTT

TileMap – How to Get ALL the Tiles Effortlessly!

by Dev Leader

How to get all the painted tiles on a TileMap when building a 2D game in Unity3D

Integrating a Chatbot into Unity in C#

by DaveMathews

Using an on-device bot development framework to integrate a chatbot into unity

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Unity3D

Generation of a hexagonal tessellation

25 Jun 2018 by LLLLGGGG

In this article, I am going to explain how to generate a hexagonal tessellation and how to draw it in Unity 3D

Unity3D

Dev

computational-geometry

Introduction to HoloLens Development with UWP

16 Jun 2016 by Joel Ivory Johnson

In this article I take a look at setting up a system for HoloLens development, the compatibility of the applications with other UWP platforms, and introduce Unity for making a 3D application

Day 13: Attacking Enemies, Health System, and Death Animation in Unity

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Attacking enemies, health system and death animation in Unity

Unity3D

game

Unity Graphics Emulator for Native Plugin Development

12 Jul 2023 by EgorYusov

This article describes Unity low-level plugin interface and the Unity graphics interface emulator that facilitates native plugin development.

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

2 Sep 2014 by Simon Jackson

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development – AI and State Machines

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game

Be Careful of Those SPECIAL Names in Unity

4 Feb 2016 by Simon Jackson

Be careful of those SPECIAL names in Unity

HoloLens Development using Visual Studio 2015 and Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

6 Jan 2017 by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

This post is a tutorial that is complimentary to the session I did, demonstrating the steps of how a simple holographic application can be built and deployed in the HoloLens emulator.

Intel RealSense D415/435: Coordinate Mapping in C#

10 Oct 2018 by Vangos

During the past few months, I have been heavily experimenting with the Intel RealSense D415 & D435 depth camera. Today, I am going to show you how to easily transform between different coordinate systems. RealSense D415/435 is a low-cost device....

Unity Player Needs Your Permission To Run In Chrome

5 Dec 2014 by Nabeel Saleem

Some ways to fix unity webplayer issue in chrome

Which is better Unity or Xamarin

2 Sep 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

First of all you need to understand the basic different between them so that you can choose which one to use in your case. First of all, Unity3D is a gaming engine and Xamarin is a cross-platform application development framework. Although there purpose is same, but their functionality and...

How to Make a Mini Minecraft Game

6 Dec 2019 by Vahe Karamian

Programming in itself is no small task. Graphics programming complicate things a tab-bit more!

Day 7: Creating a VERY Simple First Person Shooter

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create a VERY simple first person shooter

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Day 20: Fixing Game Object Collider in Unity

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Fixing Game Object Collider in Unity

Unity3D

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Day 21: Creating Game Over UI in Unity

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create game over UI in Unity

Unity3D

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Day 22: Creating the Game End State and Game Over Animation

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create the Game End state and Game Over animation

Unity3D

game

Day 26 of 100 Days of VR: Adding Missing Audio, UI, and Creating Enemy Victory State

14 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to add missing audio, UI, and create enemy victory state

Unity3D

game

IoT-VR with Unity, Intel Edison

20 May 2023 by Grasshopper.iics, Abhishek Nandy, Moumita Das

Virtual Reality with Unity, Intel Edison and MQTT

Unity3D

ASP.NET

IoT

Integrating a Chatbot into Unity in C#

7 May 2020 by DaveMathews

Using an on-device bot development framework to integrate a chatbot into unity

Unity2D

Unity

Unity3D

artificial-intelligence

bot

Mastering Unity 4 Scripting (video series)–A Review

23 Oct 2013 by Simon Jackson

By the end of this book you should be able to make scrolling backgrounds, clever AI for bad guys, and be able to save / load and change levels in the way Unity3D always wanted you to but forgot to mention.

Unity Multiplayer Games – A Review

12 Feb 2014 by Simon Jackson

Unity Multiplayer Games - a review

Unity3D

networking

game

Architecting Unity3D – The Dreaded “.”

12 May 2014 by Simon Jackson

Unity 5 is fast approaching it being with it a whole heap of new features, some obvious, some not so obvious. If you haven’t seen what’s coming publicly in Unity 5, check out the feature preview shown at Unite 2014. There are however a few behind the scenes changes …

Javascript

Unity3D

Day 6: Survival Shooter - Tutorial II

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Survival shooter - tutorial II

Unity3D

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Day 4: Going through the Unity Space Shooter - Tutorial III

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Going through the Unity Space Shooter

Unity3D

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Day 23 of 100 Days of VR: Creating a Spawning System for Enemies in Unity

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create a spawning system for enemies in Unity

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Assets\scripts\enemytimer.cs(23, 13): error CS0029: cannot implicitly convert type 'float' to 'bool'

29 Jun 2023 by Sandeep Mewara

If you debug, you will see the error is being raised from: void Update() { currentTime -= 1 * Time.deltaTime; if (currentTime = 0) { OnEnemyspawn(); } } This is because you have written currentTime = 0 in the if...

Unity3D

Unity 2D Game Development – A Review

29 Apr 2014 by Simon Jackson

Unity 2D Game Development - A Review

Unity3D

game

How Can I Make 2D Water In Unity3d ?

29 Nov 2014 by Nabeel Saleem

How can i make 2d water effect for unity game . like we see in the famouse game "where is my water"any tutorial link will give me good support :)thanks

Unity3D

UnityConfiguration

Which is better Unity or Xamarin

2 Sep 2015 by rashidebad

Unity-vs-Xamarin[^]

Entering the brave new world of VR

23 Sep 2015 by Simon Jackson

Review of two AR/VR book resources to enable devs to jump on the reality train

Unity3D

virtual-reality

Augmented-Reality

Unity3d - get smooth speed and acceleration with GPS data

10 May 2016 by Dave Kreskowiak

Google for "GPS location smoothing". You're going to get a less accurate location and slower response to your speed changes but you wont' get the jumping around nearly as much.Consumer GPS isn't dead on accurate to begin with because the military owns the system, there are restrictions on...

Unity3D

GPS

Unity3d - get smooth speed and acceleration with GPS data

10 May 2016 by Patrice T

You need to take into account the problems liked with GPS.First is accuracy or lack of. Any difference between real location and GPS location have impact on apparent speed.Ideally, you must read position and time of calculation from GPS in order to get best data.Otherwise, you are...

Unity3D

GPS

Building apps & games for Xbox One using UWP – Build once and target many

14 Nov 2016 by Simon Jackson

For my sins, I was asked back to FutureDecoded again this year to give a talk on the Microsoft UWP platform, specifically about bringing games to the XboxOne using UWP. By all accounts the session went well (especially as there was standing room only by the time the …

Creating Mixed Dimension application for HoloLens

15 Jun 2017 by Vinothkumar Arputharaj

This article will show how to create a mixed dimension (2d+3D) application on HoloLens and switch between 2D and 3D views

Unity3D

Dev

UWP

Day 9: Setting up a Weapon

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to set up a weapon

Unity3D

game

Day 8: Creating a Character in a First Person Shooter

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create a character in a first person shooter

Unity3D

game

Day 3: Going through the Unity Space Shooter - Tutorial II

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Going through the Unity Space Shooter - tutorial II

Unity3D

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Day 15: Adding Shooting, Hit, and More Walking Sound Effects!

10 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

Adding shooting, hit, and more walking sound effects!

Unity3D

game

How to Add Comments/Notes to a GameObject in Unity3D

2 Oct 2017 by Kamran Bigdely-Shamloo

This short tip teaches you how to comment a gameObject in Unity game engine for documentation purposes.

Unity3D

Day 24 of 100 Days of VR: Creating Waves for Spawning System in Unity

11 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create waves for spawning system in Unity

Unity3D

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Day 21 Creating Game Over UI in Unity

12 Oct 2017 by IAmJoshChang

How to create game over UI in Unity

Unity3D

How to Convert Right-Handed to Left-Handed Coordinates and Quaternions In Unity

19 Apr 2018 by Kamran Bigdely-Shamloo

Formulas to Convert Right-Handed Vectors and Quaternions to Left-Handed Equivalents

Unity3D

Body Tracking using Orbbec Astra + Nuitrack (Kinect Alternative)

27 Jan 2019 by Vangos

Today, I would like to introduce you to the Orbbec Astra sensor and the Nuitrack body-tracking SDK. This is an in-depth tutorial for software developers who would like to use a new depth sensor and a new body-tracking SDK to develop amazing motion applications.

Azure + HoloLens = Mixed Reality to the Cloud!

24 Feb 2019 by Vangos

Azure + HoloLens = Mixed Reality to the Cloud!

A file change logger?

18 Nov 2013 by Dave Kreskowiak

This sounds like the standard functionality of any version (source) control server. Examples include SVN, Git, CVS, Mercurial, TFS, and many others.

Unity3D

game

Creating E-Learning Games with Unity – A Review

24 Apr 2014 by Simon Jackson

Creating E-Learning Games with Unity – A Review

Unity3D

game

I want to make a software that helps learn alphabets by tracing the letters on the tablet/device screen. What software to use to do this?

14 Oct 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I strongly believe that connecting dots is a really bad idea (as well as any 3D tricks). This is rather an exercises to be used to train coordination, but for writing letters (and also for teaching drawing) it would be just distracting from more important skills involved in spelling letters,...

Windows

Unity3D

How Can I Make 2D Water In Unity3d ?

29 Nov 2014 by mark zuck

There are lots of guide on this topic on unity forum and some sites.you can see these links...

Unity3D

UnityConfiguration

Unity Player Needs Your Permission To Run In Chrome Problem

29 Nov 2014 by mark zuck

whenever i am trying to run my unity webplayer game in chrome, i am getting this error and after refresh it stuck and never plays.does any one have an idea what should i do ?

Unity3D - Easily Handling Player's Objectives

1 Jan 2015 by Eduardo Fonseca

Unity3D - Easily Handling Player's Objectives

Unity3D

programming

game

Unity AI Programming Essentials–A Review

10 Jan 2015 by Simon Jackson

A review of Unity AI programming essentials

Unity3D

artificial-intelligence

game

Is game programming good job?

21 Oct 2015 by Stylianos Polychroniadis

Let me tell you the story of my life... I started programming myself when I was 10, just like yourself. My father gotten me into it (he was working at CERN experiment in Switzerland at the time). So he taught me how to program in QBasic. Bang, that was it. I was hooked for the rest of my life I...

Unity3D

game

Getting Started with Hololens and Unity3D

6 Apr 2016 by Vangos Pterneas

Getting started with Hololens and Unity3D

Unity3D

All-Topics

UWP and development on Xbox One

6 May 2016 by Simon Jackson

A break down on the different modes of Xbox One development and clear direction of what is possible with the new UWP Retail unlock mode. Enable all devs to sideload and develop on the Xbox One UWP Platform

Version Control: Effective Use, Issues and Thoughts, from a Gamedev Perspective

10 Oct 2016 by Ashley Davis

A look at version control from the game developers perspective

Unity3D - How to Detect Pause Event from "Game" Window

29 Nov 2016 by maayanwis

How to detect Pause event from "Game" window

Unity3D

Tracking 3D object in unity with sensortag

11 Dec 2016 by Member 12899579

Hi, I post some questions on a Project I started to develop few weeks ago. Maybe someone who read could make some suggestionsThe projec is about Rotating 3d Objects in VR, made with unity. What I want to do is to use a SensorTag CC2650 (an IMU sensor with gyro, accelerometer and magnetometer)...

Android

oculus

Unity3D

Where in my project can I find “eu.kudan.androidar.kudanar”?

19 Jul 2017 by Satya Prakash Swain

Kudan has AR SDKs and Unity Plugin. Yes, eu.kudan.androidar is a package in android and and "KudanAR" is name of class.

Unity3D

Unity

Augmented-Reality

Nullrefrenceexception: object refrence not set to insurance

23 Jan 2018 by OriginalGriff

This is one of the most common problems we get asked, and it's also the one we are least equipped to answer, but you are most equipped to answer yourself. Let me just explain what the error means: You have tried to use a variable, property, or a method return value but it contains null - which...

C++

Unity3D

How can I convert a unity heightmap to VBA integer array

2 Jan 2019 by Member 14100511

Okay, so What I have is (((b4*256)+b3)*256+b2)*256+b1 with a minimum value of &h00000000 and a maximum of &hFFFF803F. Any value above that stops the terrain editor working Private Sub CmdMakeTerrain_Click() pixelheightchange = maxheight / 513 maxheight = 1062273023 r1 = maxheight / 16777216 b4...

Unity3D

VBA

Indexoutofrangeexception: index was outside the bounds of the array. Gamemanager.start () (at assets/! adnan/_scripts/manager/gamemanager.cs:42)

20 Nov 2019 by jimmson

The error message is pretty straightforward. Your levels collection doesn't contain any element at the index CurrentLevelNo. You need to debug your code to find out what is in your collection and what the index is.

Unity3D

How do game engines execute (compiled) script

17 Oct 2020 by Rick York

Actually you have two rather complex problems here. One is executing script code and the other is writing a game engine. I recommend tackling them separately. Many game engines use script languages for game play logic but very, very few use...

This is my error pls help me: error CS1520: method must have a return type

27 Feb 2021 by Dave Kreskowiak

You're probably missing a void return type. public class Identifier { } public somethingMissingHere Update () { if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.k)) { animator.SetTrigger("sword out"); } }

Unity3D

This is my error pls help me: error CS1520: method must have a return type

27 Feb 2021 by OriginalGriff

To add to what Dave has - correctly - said: the only time you can declare a method without a return type is when the method name is the same as the class name: when it is a constructor, and that's because the return type of a constructor can only...

Unity3D

Can you link 2 different mysql servers to read and write from each other?

6 Apr 2021 by Chris Copeland

This is an example of distributing databases and having them synchronise. It's a common practise for applications with enormous user bases (ie. YouTube) to optimise for speed, by having multiple databases available for reads and writes, and...

Unity: how do I fix this nullreferenceexception im having?

9 Apr 2021 by OriginalGriff

Unity3D

null

Unity - indexoutofrangeexception: index was outside the bounds of the array.

12 May 2021 by Gerry Schmitz

for (int i = 0; 1

Unity3D

I have a nullreferenceexception error in my unity survival game

24 May 2021 by OriginalGriff

C++

Unity3D

How to change gameobjects position if it's already used by a different gameobject in unity?

18 Dec 2021 by Ron Nicholson

I have used unity a little bit. So take this with a grain of salt. You are only instantiating an object when your random number is 0, in both cases. How many object will be created at one time. will you have up to 15 objects or only the two? ...

Help I got an error called "CS1022" how do I fix it? It is in line 21, 1 how to fix D:

30 Dec 2021 by Patrice T

Advice: use a CS beautifier, problem gets obvious. using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; public class WeaponScript: MonoBehaviour { public GameObject Weapon; public GameObject Postion; public...

Unity3D

How to fix error CS0029: cannot implicitly convert type 'bool' to 'float' and error CS0019: operator '&&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'bool' and 'float'

4 Apr 2022 by k5054

You have public float canShoot = true; . So you've declared a member variable to be of type floating point, but then try to assign a boolean value (i.e. true) to it, which makes no sense. It's like declaring a member of type 'color' and then...

Unity3D

Error cs0029 cannot implicitly convert type 'bool' to 'int'

26 Apr 2022 by Dave Kreskowiak

You can Google this all you want. You'll never find the answer, and you don't need to. You just need to look at your own code. Where do you define the return type of a method? What does that say? | | v int testSumArray(int[] numbers = null,...

Unity3D

How do I scale the gameobject in unity engine according to different screen sizes, outside the canvas (non UI objects - actual gameobject)?

5 May 2023 by Graeme_Grant

I popped your question into Google Search: How do I scale the gameobject in unity engine automatically according to the screen size, outside the canvas?[^] It gave me this YouTube video: HOW TO SCALE UI TO FIT ANY SCREEN RESOLUTION IN YOUR GAME...

Unity2D

Unity3D

Assets\scripts\floating.cs(20, 18): error CS0120: an object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'oceane.ocean'

2 Jul 2023 by Graeme_Grant

I don't do Unity, however, that error in C# usually means that you have not initialised the class before using it. Somewhere in your code you need to create a reference: private OceanE oceanE; and then initialise it: OceanE = new oceanE(); ...

Unity3D

game

Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook – A Review

3 Sep 2013 by Simon Jackson

This sturdy reference is a nice comparison to the previous HLSL cookbook I reviewed earlier.

Unity3D

Shaders

game

parallel processing for unity 3d using Cudafy.net

17 Sep 2013 by dieselc

Is there any way to call CUDAfy.net to Unity 3D ?

CUDAfy.NET

Unity3D

A file change logger?

18 Nov 2013 by Frank R. Haugen

Question/problem:I would like a kind of "version control" -system that looks for file-changes and saves copies, so that I don't have both backups and go back and "undue" the projects steps; or branch out from an earlier point in the project.Background:I've started developing in Unity3d,...

Unity3D

game

A file change logger?

18 Nov 2013 by Frank R. Haugen

http://beanland.net.au/AutoVer...

Unity3D

game

IS it possible to load the whole game (and all scenes) at startup to avoid scene change delay?

6 Jan 2014 by Member 10442210

I have a 3D game based on unity and I have made it in a way that all menu screens are different scenes, But loading takes time, and that makes it look like the game is lagging upon pressing a button. Is there any way to make the whole game and all scenes load at start-up and just show themselves...

Unity3D

Running Server Extensions from Unity 3D

25 Feb 2014 by Kii

This technique allows you to have the best of both worlds in Unity, a dedicated SDK plus any REST API call

Unity3D

product-showcase

google glass touchpad in unity3d

26 Feb 2014 by Member 10628960

Hello developers!I am trying to access the touchpad of Google Glass in my metaio Unity3D project. Has someone tried doing the same thing?I've tried making an android plugin which simply prints the gesture detected on the screen. The funny part is, plugin works fine only once, when I...

disable secondary touch input (android)

26 Feb 2014 by Member 10628960

Hello Developers!I want my unity3d (android) app to not take inputs from secondary input touch, i.e.bool status = AndroidInput.secondaryTouchEnabled();should always return "false". I know it is a "readonly"..I'm getting it sometimes true and sometimes false, randomly. How do I...

Arduino Uno and Unity Web Player

12 Mar 2014 by andry fajar

Please help me,I've been approached frustrated how to serial communication arduino uno with unity web player? can i see an example of the source code?

Arduino

Unity3D

Arduino Uno and Unity Web Player

12 Mar 2014 by Vedat Ozan Oner

The only direct way to communicate with an Arduino is via serial communication.for Arduino see:Serial[^]an example:Serial example[^]on computer side (.net):SerialPort[^]There are some other ways using Arduino shields:Ethernet shield[^]orWifi shield[^]You can find...

Arduino

Unity3D

Send Data From Arduino to ASP.NET

21 Mar 2014 by andry fajar

Please help me ,I have a problem regarding valiable calling from c # to javascript in asp.net .how to perform real-time retrieval of Arduino uno without wifi shileld through C # then passed to the javascript that will be displayed on the web . where the transmitted data is worth " 0 " and "...

How to read values from logitech ?

2 Apr 2014 by Member 9846414

Hi i am beginner to unity 3D. please give any sample example. accessing values like from streeing,break..etc in unity using logitech

Unity3D

How to read values from logitech ?

5 Apr 2014 by CHill60

As no one has come back to you in 3 days can I suggest that you might have more luck on the Unity3d forum[^]

Unity3D

C# Proggraming Problem

11 Apr 2014 by Sepehr M

hi there...sry i have a question about unity in 2d mode ...if u know help me....in fact i have some scorpion sprite sheets from mortal kombat in diffrent motions(idle,walking,jumping,ducking,etc)..how can i use all of the motions?should i load all of them at the same time? if yes..how can i...

Unity3D

movement of objects

15 Apr 2014 by Abhinav S

These may help -Transform.Translate[^]Video - How to move a gameObject[^]http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/14279/make-an-object-move-from-point-a-to-point-b-then-b.html[^]

Unity3D

Unity

movement of objects

15 Apr 2014 by Per Söderlund

Attach this script to object1.using UnityEngine;using System.Collections;public class Follow: MonoBehaviour { GameObject TargetObject; void Start () { TargetObject = GameObject.Find("object2"); } void FixedUpdate () { this.transform.position =...

Unity3D

Unity

C# Proggraming Problem

16 Apr 2014 by thatraja

Get a book like thisLearning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide[^]orBrowse web

Unity3D

The Unity3D Samples (beta) – An Overview

12 May 2014 by Simon Jackson

The Unity3D Samples (beta) – An Overview

Unity3D

How to improve performance when execute eglMakeCurrent and eglSwapBuffers on Android

3 Sep 2014 by knighthedspi

Hi everyone!I'm developing an Unity Android Plugin that allow user to record his/her gameplayOverview of my solution: - Using OpenGl FrameBufferObject (FBO) to make Unity render offscreen to this FBO - Get the offscreen texture of this FBO then using for 2 purposes: ...

Implementing Gesture Sequences in Unity* 3D with TouchScript

12 Sep 2014 by Lynn Thompson