7 hours agoWorking with CinemachineWhat is “Follow” and “Body” — In the previous article we have covered what “Aim” and “Look At” functions are and how they can affect your Virtual Camera. Now we will learn what “Follow” and “Body” are. In the most simplest explanation, we can “Follow” as the name suggest, is the ability to set the Camera…Unity Game Development2 min read
1 day agoWorking with CinemachineHow to access Cinemachine Virtual Camera’s component via C# — Now that we have our camera’s setup and can toggle them on and off via C# script, it is time to learn how we can also access the internal components of the Virtual Camera via script as well. In this short article we are explore how we can access most…Unity 3 D2 min read
2 days agoWorking with CinemachineLearning how to switch between multiple virtual cameras — Now that we have the basics understandings of virtual cameras and their ability to look at directed objects. (if not, click here to learn more) We can finally put the knowledge to test, especially when applied to a real world situation and one such situation is working with multiple virtual…Unity 3 D3 min read
3 days agoWorking with CinemachineLearning how to use the Look At and Aim — One of the unique features with working with Cinemachine is that it provides you with several useful features, and one of them is called “Aim and Look At”. With “Look At” it basically sets any game object as a target so whenever that game object moves the camera will follow…Unity Game Development3 min read
6 days agoWorking with Cinemachine & TimelinesLearning how to install and work with Timelines and Virtual Cameras — In this article we will gain a better understanding of what is Cinemachine and Timeline within Unity. Both systems are including when you download Unity or downloaded manually within the package manager (if you are working with Unity 2019 and below). Although you can view both of these two functions…Unity Game Development3 min read
Jun 13A Guild to Beautiful GamesWorking with Light probes — Light probes are a function within Unity that creates a giant custom mesh within your scene that collects and store light and shadow data that are lighting up the surfaces within scene. They allow dynamic objects such as the player or other interactable object to inherit that stored information when…Unity 3 D3 min read
Jun 11A Guild to Beautiful GamesWhat is Baked Lighting and how we can use it — Lighting in Unity can be set to 3 different options “Baked, Mixed and Real-Time” and their differences can make a big affect to your gaming performance. Real Time Lighting: Real Time lighting is basically taking in all the dynamic lighting and shadows and having it auto generate in real time with an constant…Unity 3 D4 min read
Jun 3A Guild to Beautiful GameWorking with Decals and Layered Lit Settings — Some other neat tricks that also come in handy when working with HDRP is that we can work with decals and also unique settings for texture maps within planes. Working with Decals Decals are basically images or other symbols that can appear on walls or other surfaces that can add extra effects, such…Unity 3 D4 min read
May 27A Guild to Beautiful GameWorking with Planes and Height Maps — In this article we will explore some more settings within the HDRP pipeline that simply just change the way you can render objects within the scene. The first thing we are going to explore is regarding to plane objects. Working with textures that should have various height or 3D…Unity 3 D4 min read
May 26A Guild to Beautiful GameAdding the Final touch to our Scene, Reflection probe — In this mini article we will learn how to add an reflection probe to our scene and how it can affect our scene. Since we are using HDRP pipeline the end result will drastically be different compared to the URP pipeline. What is a Reflection Probe: A reflection probe is an component which captures the…Unity 3 D3 min read
