Coding Tips And Tricks: Null Checks
Null Conditional There is a feature in c# where you can add a null check by putting a question mark before the dot when reading a property, field, or function…
UI in 3D Space
While most UI Is locked to your screen like a frame around the camera's view, some UI is required to be visible within the 3D world itself. I'm going to…
Game Over UI
So first, let's explain what this will not cover. It does not cover the basics of creating UI elements inside of Unity. I expect this post will be overly long…
Loot Magnet
In Lamina Island we have something we call a Loot Magnet. This pulls all the loot towards the player when the player gets in range. It's a common enough feature…
Helpers And Extensions Part 1
If you code long enough then you are going to run into the same kinds of problems. And rather than solving them again and again, you'll start to put together…
Coding Tips And Tricks: Multi Caret Functionality
Visual studios is an amazing text editor. Once you become familiar with a lot of it's short cut keys, you will start to notice things you can do in visual…
Action Advertisements
Icon source The first time I ran into the concept of action advertisements was in an AI book written one of the main guys who made the sims AI. While…
Harvest Point
In our game we needed what we call 'harvest points'. These are points where the player can walk up to and by activating an action, it will burst with loot.…
Loot
When working in a 3D environment it can get expensive to create both a 3D and 2D version of your loot for your game. I have a theory that some…