Topic

unity

A collection of 7 issues

Yes, you CAN serialize abstract classes in Unity

Over and over I've seen posts around the web and on the various Q&A sites like this: > I have an abstract class and two (or more) classes that implement this abstract class (not MonoBehaviours). All classes are marked Serializable, and I use them in a MonoBehaviour. But for some

Element-wise Vector Multiplication in Unity (Vector3.Scale)

I often need to multiply two vectors together one element at a time. This is called the Hadamard Product [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard_product_(matrices)]. Typically I do it this way: Vector3 a=new Vector3(1,2,3); Vector3 b=new Vector3(4,5,6); Vector3 result = new

The top 5 things I've learned as an Indie Unity Developer

I have released one game implemented with the Unity engine and have two more in the pipeline. Over time I've learned quite a bit, often by doing things the wrong way first. 1. Embrace component-based design and avoid Inheritance When I first started working with Unity I was coming from

Serializing Interfaces in Unity

The Unity Inspector is a great tool for combing and configuring various components into powerful game objects with complex behaviors, all with little to no additional coding. Interfaces [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/interfaces/index] are a useful architecture mechanism enabling developers to design good contracts between

Unity Events

Events are a powerful feature allowing a method to be notified when the event fires. C# has an event system built into the language itself. Unity provides its own event mechanism called UnityEvents [https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityEvents.html] that, unlike C# events, is accessible from the Unity Editor.

Allow Chrome to run WebGL apps from the local file system

I'm experimenting with a Unity application to see if it would be viable to run it in Web Assembly/WebGL. Firefox allows running the application locally with the file:/// notation, but Chrome does not. Chrome for security reasons disallows this type of access. It would be a hastle to upload

Hiding the Screen Canvas in the Unity Editor

I've had a minor annoyance over the last year working on my Unity project: the screen canvas is visible in the Unity Editor scene view, and intercepts any clicks within the scene view that cross over the canvas. I finally decided to see if there is a way to remove