I’m currently looking at my version control timeline for Project Astra to see just what I’ve been doing this past year. As you can see from the date of my last post, it’s been a while since I’ve decided to blog about what I’ve been doing. This is due to many reasons. The main one …
Just a month ago, I decided to start learning about shaders in depth. There’s a wealth of free resources one can learn from online. Above is a WIP of some planet shaders I’m almost finished with. I’ve bought a lot of amazing planet assets over the years from the Unity Asset Store with the intent …
Ok, so it’s been around 10 months since my last post, but I’ve been working on the game full-time. Here’s a screenshot of some orientation lines (no AA yet, hence the jaggies) in the battle UI used for giving movement orders. A large part of the beginning of 2017 had been spent on UI design, …
While intending to work on environment loading, I got sidetracked with a whole host of other systems I wanted to develop. I’ve been participating in Unity’s Collaborate beta for in-editor version control for several months. It’s had a few hiccups, but in general, it’s really quite convenient. While based on Git, it’s lacking some functionality such as …
While prototyping and deciding on the look of the environment for the space RTS I’m working on, I needed more spaceships to test lighting, post process effects, shadows, etc. To do this, I needed to update the textures on the first model I ever fully completed. You can view a render above and the actual 3D …
I haven’t been able to dedicate as much time as I’d like to working on the game, but recently I’ve focused on developing a modeling and texturing workflow for creating spaceships. Using Maya LT for modeling and Substance Painter for texturing, I’ve started to become comfortable with both tools and have figured out an aesthetic that I’d …
Updated Oct. 27, 2019. Developing a truly resolution independent user interface is not easy, especially for desktops and laptops. By resolution independence, I mean being able to design the UI once, and have it work at all resolutions, especially the wide range of resolutions on desktop. I’ve read a lot of posts and tutorials online, …
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If you’ve ever worked with Camera.WorldToScreenPoint to get object positions on the screen from their world space positions, and then displayed some sort of UI element on it, you may have noticed that when your camera faces away from the objects, you still get your UI element displaying on the screen. This is due to …
Update Oct. 27, 2019: The Unity landscape has changed since the initial post. I’ve revised a lot of the original post to reflect this. I love games that are moddable. I don’t usually mod games until after I’ve experienced the vanilla version of the game the way the devs intended. If I do use or …
Although I haven’t posted to this DevBlog recently, work is very much underway on the tactical space RTS. Recently, I implemented a full camera system for the battle portion of the game and wanted to share my thoughts on it here. Originally, I had intended to use and stick with camera assets from the Unity …
