So day two of Unite 11 has come to a close. At the time of writing I’ve just got home from the Unite Party, it was really cool and I had a great time talking to a few of the many, many attendees. At the party I met people who were working on projects for…
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Many people were asking for slides from yesterdays “SHADOWGUN: rendering techniques and optimization challenges” talk, so here it is: SHADOWGUN at Unite’11 slides. And sorry for poor projector image.
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So the first day of Unite 2011 is coming to an end. It really has been a record breaking start to proceedings with 1,200 registered attendees with 41 sessions and 70 speakers. Certainly a long way from the first ever Unite which had only 70 attendees and again almost doubling in size compared to last…
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Our friends at Mixamo have been working on new solutions for game developers. You can already use their animation tools inside the Unity Asset Store, but their latest and greatest innovation is the Mixamo auto-rigger, which totally is the bees knees for artists delivering assets to Unity! This cutting-edge solution will change the way you…
Read the rest of this entryThis post is a guide to importing a skinned mesh with a looping animation and then animating it’s position in Unity. At the end of the guide you should been able to import a skinned mesh, parent it to a position node, animate positions & rotations along waypoints and then edit the animations, duplicate and…
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Ole and I promised to share the slides from our talk at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Studio. The presentation covers various graphics techniques that use depth, normals and color buffers. The methods range from improving standard techniques to creating entirely new ones, like approximate volumetric effects or advanced image post-processing. The buffers used are in many cases…
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Unity supports textured 3D models from a variety of programs or sources. This short guide has been put together by games artists with developers at Unity, to help you create assets that work better and more efficiently in your Unity project. This will be incorporated into the documentation in due course Scale & Units Set…
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Over the last few months here at Unity, we have been hard at work on, amongst many other cool things, the ability to publish from Unity to the Flash Player. This means that next to the already existing build targets of a Unity project, one will be able to target Flash with Stage3D, announced for Flash…
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At the latest London Unity User Group, the evening kicked off with a beginner talk by Jasper Stocker, and was followed by ‘Open Mic’ talks by myself – demoing a quick Space Shooter demo I made in Unity – and LUUG regular Quickfingers, showing off a game he made for recent Ludum Dare 48 game…
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