Now that we have a functioning animator controller, it’s time to accept player input so that we can actually pause the game and bring up the menu.
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…
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. As a reminder, here’s a preview of…
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…
Let’s take a look at some common problems and anti-patterns when using lerp in Unity, and how to correct them.
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…
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…
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 case…
1d8
d20+2
2d6-4
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:
Use the through2 npm library to pipe your gulp stream through Browserify, and use the babelify Browserify transformer instead of gulp-babel. Check out the gist
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