Bolt Visual Scripting in Unity is designed for game developers of all levels who want to learn Unity’s official front end for visual scripting. If you’re new to Unity, Bolt is a great gateway into gameplay programming. If you’re an experienced developer, you may be surprised at how flexible it is and how closely it
Have you ever wanted to make a game like Monument Valley? This article (by yours truly) shows you how. Learn how the famous Monument Valley game mechanics and camera views work and create your own click-to-move game! You’ll also add a few really cool techniques to your Unity toolbelt.
For those hunkered down in your home office during this global pandemic, rejoice! Unity has launched its annual spring sale. More than 500 of the Asset Store’s most popular assets are currently 50% off. As a bonus, one high value asset is 70% off each day through April 21. Check out the sales items below:
Introduction to DOTS For those of you following the YouTube channel, there is now a series of tutorials covering DOTS. These introduce its two main pillars, the Entity Component System (ECS) and the C# Job System. Though these are very simple examples, they emphasize the basic syntax in order to help you understand the non-OOP
Shader Graph is a powerful tool within Unity to modify the rendering properties of our materials. Do you want to make your surface shiny and metallic? Rusty and speckled with dirt? With Shader Graph you can, without even writing a single line of code! Unity 2018.2 extended the ability for Shader Graph to modify the
In these episodes, we expand on the simple VFX Graph that we have built in the previous videos. Let’s make it easier to customize our Visual Effect Graph with Parameters. We can expose parts of the graph to the Inspector using the Blackboard. Then you can use tweak the field, sliders, and color chips interactively.
In this episode, let’s build our first simple Visual Effect Graph! Here will apply what we learned in the last video and make our Contexts, Blocks and Nodes work together to create a simple but visually fun particle system. We start with the stock emitter, adjust the size and scale of the particles, then adjust
In this new video series, let’s start exploring the Visual Effect Graph in Unity. You can find this new system for simulating particles on the GPU in Unity 2018.3 and above. The current Shuriken ParticleSystem component can handle thousands of particles, limited to running its simulations on the CPU. In contrast, particles created using the
For those of you who haven’t downloaded and installed the FPS Sample yet, this is a great reference project and shows how far a small team (six main devs plus additional contractors) can push the game engine. Unity demo’ed this first-person multiplayer shooter at Unite 2018 in Los Angeles last year. The project repository is
Hey everyone, Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! In this episode, let’s talk about version control. More specifically let’s talk about how to use Git with Unity. Git is a free and open source system that allows you to track revisions on your development project. Whether you are building a game, a Web
Hey everyone, Unite 2018 is underway in Los Angeles! In case you missed it last night, Unity announced some upcoming features, some available in the current 2018.3 beta and some coming in 2019. Highlights from the Keynote: Cinecast – Unity demoed a cool extension of their work on Cinemachine, allowing you to direct in-game cutting
Hey there. It’s been a while, so here’s an update. No, it’s not a Borg cube. DOTS It’s 2020 and the big news for Unity is DOTS! After watching Unity’s Data-Oriented Tech Stack evolve over the last couple of years, we finally get to see DOTS out of preview. You want 100,000 on-screen objects? Use
Unity recently announced the Measured Materials Library. This is a set of 300 materials available for free, downloadable as a package from the Asset Store. Included are some detailed examples of: fabric/suede plastic leather wood metal and chrome car paint Many of these are complex with multiple layers of textures. Work with them directly in
