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Toronto + Unity: First User Group Meeting

Amir Ebrahimi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:13:51 +0000

Tony Garcia, Director of Business Development, and I went to Toronto recently for a whirlwind Unity tour like the one Tom Higgins did not too long ago in Vancouver. What can we say? We love supporting Canadanian Unity developers! It also helps that J. Joly over at OverInteractive Media keeps setting events like these up.

The actual events happened November 10th and 11th as a networking mixer for the launch of the Toronto Unity User Group (UUG) and a Unity Skills Workshop the next day. Tony did a keynote presentation at the Gladstone Hotel for the networking mixer and had a short Q&A with attendees. The next day, I did a three and a half hour workshop at George Brown College. Both events were packed full and it was great meeting so many Unity developers.

Mr. Joly and the other folks at OverInteractive Media are all about Unity and they’ve successfully kicked off three Unity Users Groups in Canada: Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal. When they are not starting user groups, they are working on building dimeRocker: a soon-to-be-released distribution platform that will enable Unity game developers to both self-publish, monetize and grow traffic for their 3D multi-player game content across the social web, beginning with Facebook. Interested developers can join the closed Beta, which will launch November 25th at G-Star in Busan, Korea.

I have much respect for J. Joly and the gang from OverInteractive Media. The entire week was planned and managed by them. They secured many local sponsors to make the events happen. They even hosted us for a dinner at the Mildred Pierce Temple Kitchen as a way to thank us!

Pictures or it didn’t happen!

Outside the Gladstone Hotel

Attendees arrive...

Raffle!

Skills Workshop at George Brown College

“Touch Phases” Example iPhone Project

Amir Ebrahimi — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:35:48 +0000

I decided to clean up the Touch Phases project I had from a while back and post it to our iPhone example projects. You can now record and play back touch input in either the editor or on the device. Even before adding recording/playback, I used this project as a debugging tool when building the Penelope demo/tutorial. I hope that it will help as you develop your own iPhone apps. Here’s a short video of the recording/playback support:

Updated FPS Tutorial + New Video Tutorial

Amir Ebrahimi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:53:34 +0000

You asked and we deliver.

While the FPS tutorial is version 1.x Unity content, it still has a little life left in it for getting you started off building your own FPS. The tutorial is newly formatted and updated to work with Unity 2.x:
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/fpstutorial

If you’ve yet to grok how to set up occlusion culling for your iPhone game, then check out a new video tutorial that Jeff made:
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/video-occlusion-culling

or, if you’re impatient, then just watch it here from our YouTube channel:

Unity iPhone 1.1 Standard Assets

Amir Ebrahimi — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:50:21 +0000

The Demo Team is putting the finishing touches on the iPhone Standard Assets that will go out with the Unity iPhone 1.1. release. There are plenty of useful assets that you’ll get:

1. Additive-Projector (can be used to fake spotlights)

2. Blob-Shadow

3. iPhone-specific shaders

4. Default Skybox asset

5. Joystick and TouchPad scripts

6. Easy-to-use water reflection script

7. Control schemes aplenty: 2D side scroller, camera-relative, FPS, FPS w/ tilt, player-relative, tap-to-move

With the Unity iPhone 1.1. release imminent, you’ll be enjoying all of these goodies, soon!

My first post, and an iPhone touch phase mini-tutorial!

Amir Ebrahimi — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:15:02 +0000

Mini-tutorial!

This is my first post on the Unity blog and will be short because…hey, I still have more work to do. However, I wanted to drop a quick link to a mini-tutorial that I threw together for touch phase input. I was working on the larger iPhone tutorial that Ethan spoke about in a previous blogpost and having some trouble with touch input, so I decided to break out to a separate project and create something simple to track touches. It’s not quite a tutorial because I’m not including a PDF with step-by-step instructions, however, I’ll get around to that later before we put it up in Resources section of the website. Here’s my project folder with comments in the source code for what I’m doing:

TouchPhases Project Folder