So far in our efforts to create an animated pause menu, we have set up the required UI elements for the menu, and created the animation clip that will drive the transition between the paused and unpaused states of the game. …

Following the setup of all the UI elements for the pause menu in part one, we’re now going to create an animation for the transition between the unpaused and paused states of the game. …

Today, we’re going to start building an animated pause menu in Unity3D. We’ll go through setting up the UI, animating the UI elements, creating the animator controller / state machine to transition from unpaused to paused, and actually pausing the game in response to player input. …

Let’s take a look at some common problems and anti-patterns when using lerp in Unity, and how to correct them.

Anti-pattern #1: lerping with Time.time

We want to move a GameObject to a target point over time, so we lerp between a starting point and a destination, using Time.time as the t value.

void Update…

If you’ve ever wanted to change a player’s health bar from green to red as they take damage, figure out the damage of an attack based on the power level, or smoothly transition from darkness to light in your level design, chances are you’ve used a linear interpolation, or “lerp”…

Have you ever wanted to animate multiple UI elements at once in Unity? Unity3D 4.6 brought with it the long-awaited Unity GUI (or uGUI) system, and with that, a lot of potential for creating great in-game UIs. When building your game’s UI, you will probably want to animate different aspects…

I recently wrote a small Slack integration for my gaming group. I wanted to handle dice rolls for tabletop games, so I needed to match patterns like 1d8, d20+2, or 2d6-4. I wrote a simple regex to handle it, which could probably be greatly improved, but works for my use…

I recently set up Unity Cloud Build so I could take it for a test drive, and while I was walking through the setup instructions, I came across a bit that was really concerning:

Please, please, please don’t do this. Adding an SSH key to your account like this is…