In Rain, Sand, Stars, all objects inhabit little planetoids a la Mario Galaxy (or much before that, a la The Little Prince). Therefore, at each time step, all dynamic objects must be rotated so they stand upright on the planet surface. In a game like Mario Galaxy, their transform.up should coincide with the normal of [...]
Categories: Programming,Videogame
Tagged: planetoid, quaternion, Rain Sand Stars, Unity3D
The previous post got a funny comment in Reddit: “Yawn. Hang on, inheritance, singletons? Bletch”. So I thought… “I may be getting rusty… let’s give those coroutines a try”. At first, coroutines seemed like a sure way of leaving behind all my (humble) OOP practices. I though they were some kind of goto statement, probably [...]
Categories: Artificial intelligence,Programming
Tagged: AI, Artificial intelligence, C#, coroutines, Finite State Machine, FSM, Unity3D
Finite State Machines (FSMs) are pretty useful in many different contexts, as you may know if you are reading this. From a game menu to the complex behaviour of game entities, a nice FSM may improve your code’s readability and simplify its design. Or turn it into a hell of spaguetti code, depending on its [...]
Categories: Artificial intelligence,Programming
Tagged: AI, Artificial intelligence, C#, Finite State Machine, Mat Buckland, Unity3D
… to celebrate that we did not win anything at all in the 2010 Unity Awards. There pretty good works among the nominees! But this year winners where… Grand Prix: Air Attack HD by Art In Games Best Gameplay: Colorbind by Nonverbal Best Non-game LoveMyHome by ILP Best Visual Design: The Uncanny Fish Hunt by [...]
Tagged: Union, Unity Awards, Unity3D
There are times when you need to give your code the ability to choose among many options that have different frequencies or probabilities of being selected. Whether you need to create a random power-up or decide the next enemy encounter, here’s a tool that you will find useful: the Roulette Wheel selection algorithm, or Fitness [...]
Categories: Algorithms,Programming,Tutorial
Tagged: Algorithms, content, fortune, procedural, roulette, selection, Tutorial, Unity3D, wheel
Hugo, 4 years old, playing with Tsuyu in Rain, Sand, Stars.
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