Research & Development for 3D & the Web

This is a very useful script to use when you want to be able to choose when / how to pass a game object onto another scene and then be able to return to a previous scene without ending up with duplicate objects. (The script was taken from Unity Answers area on their site at the address below:) http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/3863/audio-or-music-to-continue-playing-between-scene-changes   private static var instance:MusicHandler; public static function GetInstance() : MusicHandler { return Read more [...]

To create a simple HUD in a Unity game for Score and Lives: Utilising the Unity GUI system (avoid this for things like Iphone development). Uses "On GUI()" - function that can run multiple times per frame depending on user input. All GUI code must be inside 'OnGUI' or else called from 'OnGUI' (in the case of separate functions to call based on cases) public int score = 0; public int lives = 3; //could use: public static int score and lives if I only had one player so that you aren't Read more [...]

Straight from the Unity Site here: ------------------------------------------------------------- Components are attached to game objects. Attaching a Renderer component to a game object is what makes it render on the screen, attaching a Camera turns it into a camera object. All scripts are components thus they can be attached to game objects. The most common components are accessible as simple member variables: Component Accessible as Transform transform Rigidbody rigidbody Renderer renderer Camera camera Read more [...]

Creating a simple Character Script Great Tutorial - Part 1 here: http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_showvideo.php?v=3593 Overwritable Scripts: Start() - gets called first Awake() - gets called right before first update Update() - gets called every frame (also all of your onMouseOver/enter/trigger/collision etc..) This script is a simple component.. ------------------------------ PLAYER.JS public float PlayerSpeed; void Start() //this is what happens before anything else. { transform.position Read more [...]

Research into creating an inventory in Unity... ----------------------------Taken from this site:-------------------------- http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/GUI.SelectionGrid.html GUI.SelectionGrid   static function SelectionGrid (position : Rect, selected : int, texts : string[], xCount : int) : int   static function SelectionGrid (position : Rect, selected : int, images : Texture[], xCount : int) : int   static function SelectionGrid Read more [...]