particle.startLifetime: First of all, what Unity did in Unity 5.5 was to add new futures to the ParticleSystem. They also exposed some ParticleSystem API that was hidden before. ParticleSystem.MainModule.startLifetime is now a type of MinMaxCurve instead of float like ParticleSystem.startLifetime. By doing this, you are now given more options such as modifying the startLifetime as … Read more
Exporting and running Unity3D project to Android Studio is not really hard. Make sure the you have the latest version of Unity(5.4) and Android Studio(2.1.3). This steps were made with the version mentioned above. EXPORTING TO Android Studio: 1.Create a root folder that will hold the exported folders and files. Let’s call it AndroidTestProject in … Read more
Do not use OnTriggerStay to do this. That’s not guaranteed to be true very time. Set isGrounded flag to true when OnCollisionEnter is called. Set it to false when OnCollisionExit is called. bool isGrounded = true; private float jumpForce = 2f; private Rigidbody pRigidBody; void Start() { pRigidBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>(); } private void Update() { … Read more
Pretty easy to google… http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/119537-You-are-trying-to-create-a-MonoBehaviour-using-the-new-keyword It’s to do with what Boids inherits. New is apparently not the correct way to instantiate the object, it should be instatiated using the unity framework gameObject.AddComponent<Boids>()
You’re capturing the variable i in your lambda expression. When that lambda expression is executed, it will use the “current” value of i – which will always be 9. You want to capture a copy of the variable… which you can do be introducing a new variable in the loop: for (int i = 0; … Read more
The only thing that can return null in your code is Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint. It means that Camera.main is null. For Camera.main to be initialized, the camera must have the MainCamera tag. Select the Camera GameObject then change the tag to MainCamera. If you don’t want your camera to be in the MainCamera tag, you can also … Read more
First, here’s a very quick tutorial on extensions for those learning c#/Unity for anyone googling here: Make a new text file HandyExtensions.cs like this … (note that somewhat confusingly, you can use any name at all for the class which “holds” your extensions – the actual name of the class is never used at all, … Read more
The UI system in unity is very easy to use… 1) click add canvas .. select “scale with screen size” Important!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is critical to select “scale with screen size”. (Note that this is in the “Canvas Scaler” section – it is NOT in the “Canvas” section.) (2017 – note they recently changed the wording … Read more
Unity has a custom way to check inspector’s references against null. When a MonoBehaviour has fields, in the editor only[1], we do not set those fields to “real null”, but to a “fake null” object. Our custom == operator is able to check if something is one of these fake null objects, and behaves accordingly … Read more
This is very straightforward. Just use yield return SecondRequest(); or yield return StartCoroutine( SecondRequest());. The yield before the the coroutine name or StartCoroutine should make it wait for that coroutine to return before it continue to execute other code below it. For example, you have four coroutine functions that should be called sequentially: IEnumerator FirstRequest() … Read more