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 to use them in my … Read More
2017 So Far
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, functionality, and audio. A framework … Read More
Getting Sidtracked
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 branching, but it looks like … Read More
New Textures For An Old Spaceship
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 spaceship model on Sketchfab below: … Read More
View The First Finished Spaceship Concept In 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 like for the game’s spaceships … Read More
The Quest For A Resolution Independent UI In Unity
Update Feb. 3, 2017: I’ve updated the post to reflect more testing and newer methods to attain resolution independence in Unity. Original post: Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve come to realize that developing a truly resolution independent user interface is not easy, especially for desktops and laptops. I’ve read a lot of posts and tutorials online, experimented with various methods, … Read More
A Solution To Unity’s Camera.WorldToScreenPoint Causing UI Elements To Display When Object Is Behind The Camera
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 Camera.WorldToScreenPoint using an infinite line through … Read More
Creating A Moddable Unity Game
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 create a mod, it’s usually to balance the game a certain way, or to improve on or add features to enhance my enjoyability of the game. I used to … Read More
Procedural Loading In Unity
(Updated: Feb. 25, 2016) The blog post below is now outdated because multi-scene editing has been added in Unity 5.3. I am now using a single root scene which loads additively and unloads scenes according to what is needed, which makes things a lot easier to prototype and manage. There is no longer any need for Don’tDestroyOnLoad. This is the tip I’m using … Read More
Building a Camera System for Unity
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 Asset Store. After becoming more … Read More
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