I thought this new plugin was pretty cool and it will definitely make a lot of 2D developers happy.  Using RageSpline you can create awesome-looking 2D games right in the Unity inspector. Keely from the Unity forums has outdone himself on this one. Easily create smooth spline objects, modify existing objects, add textures, bevel & emboss and so much more. RageSpline is available in the Unity Asset Store Here’s a full list of...

Unity Technologies announced on Sunday (February 27th, 2011) that they will directly support the new Molehill 3D API for Flash, codenamed Molehill. Molehill is currently in public beta and exposes a low-level shader based interface to graphics hardware. This is huge news for Unity developers who often face the problem of lacking Unity web player penetration. While the details are a still little fuzzy this is a big step forward for Unity and...

Unity CEO David Helgason recently spoke to GamaSutra regarding upcoming support for Sony’s highly anticipated Xperia Play mobile platform. Xperia Play is the first PlayStation-certified smart phone, and is Sony’s attempt at becoming a player in the rapidly growing smart phone gaming arena. What does this mean for Unity developers? Well, more supported platforms is always a good thing when it comes to deployment. The more...

Here’s a quick look at a grapple gun demo I just put together. This is just a simple prototype so don’t expect everything to be fine tuned and working 100%.  I’ll be posting a tutorial on how I created the grapple effect in the near future. In the meantime, check out the demo and let me know if there’s any features, changes or new implementations you would like to see. The demo is pretty rudimentary and there are...

I created this grapple hook to go along with a grapple hook tutorial I’ve been working on. It’s almost complete but I have a few more things to take care of before I’ll be posting it. I was originally going for a typical grapple hook that clings to the edge of a building, hence this 3D model I cooked up. I decided to change directions with the tutorial and create something closer to the grapple hook in the new Little Big...

This tutorial is a continuation of my previous tutorial “Moving Characters & Objects With Keyboard Input in Unity 3D“.In this tutorial I’ll be discussing how to make a character jump in Unity 3. There are actually quite a few ways to accomplish this, and I’ll be covering 2 different options that you have available. As discussed in my previous tutorial, generally in a 3D game your character will be moving on the X...

I’m a few days late on this but if you aren’t already aware Unity 3.2 was released on Feb 10th, 2011. Unity 3.2 brings with it a ton of minor bug fixes as well as a few major feature upgrades. All in all it’s not a huge update but every bit helps, right? Here’s a quick breakdown of the major new features in Unity 3.2 Image Effects: New Depth of Field with bokeh, improved bloom and several other image effect tweaks...