December 10, 2012

A simple, static solution for fading the screen in Unity. This solution fires off three events during its operation: OnFadeBegin, OnFadeUpdate and OnFadeEnd and you can easily hook onto these to respond to the status of the fade. There's also a hand property called IsFadingUp which is convenient for checking when a fade is complete to execute some clean up logic if you are fading scenes and then easily fire off a fade down. I've also included a few handy overloads in the public interface to add flexibility so take a look at the comments when you are using this solution. The example project below...

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October 17, 2012

Buttons should be easy and now they are. Collider Button is a simple component that allows any collider to become a button for use in your scene. Whether its a simple prototype that doesn't need a GUI system in place quite yet or if you simply want an easy to use 3D-based button, Collider Buttons aims to make things simple. Collider Button fits into any workflow by allowing two approaches for use: inspector broadcasting and event listening. For inspector use without coding, simply drag a GameObject into the Event Target slot and any and all methods in every component on the GameObject will...

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March 21, 2012

Saving the state of a GameObject(read MonoBehavior) via traditional serialization is not possible so I whipped up a simple approach that allows easy saving and loading of data contained in a class for simple state storage and retrieval via PlayerPrefs. First, create a super-simple, serializable class that you can use as your data container in your GameObject:

[System.Serializable]
public class HeroStats{
	public float health;
	public float magic;
	public float money;
	public bool talkedToWizard;
	public bool defeatedRedDragon;
	public bool hasMagicKey;
}