https://worldofzero.com/tags/livecode/Recent content in livecode on World of ZeroHugo -- gohugo.ioencontact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)©2025, All Rights ReservedTue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/spherical-gravity-in-unity/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:49:28 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/spherical-gravity-in-unity/Today we’re going to be taking a look at creating spherical gravity systems in Unity. This will allow us to simulate realistic orbits of objects in our game or create three dimensional worlds that you can walk around and jump between.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-polar-coordinates-in-unity-shader-graphs/Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 16 May 2025 07:28:43 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-polar-coordinates-in-unity-shader-graphs/Getting back into making videos and decided to explore polar coordinates at a high level. Polar coordinates are an alternative coordinate system that maps points onto a radius and angle instead of an XY position like we have when using more typical Cartesian coordinates.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dshaderlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/go-go-godot-new-project/Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:36:45 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/go-go-godot-new-project/I’ve never used Godot, let’s explore it together and see what we can build!Sam Wronskifeatured imagegodotcsharpdotnetlivestreamlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-2/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:49:28 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-2/Grab a controller and brush off your C# skills - we’re building a game this week! Over the next 3 days (Tuesday - Thursday 11-3 Pacific) we’ll be diving into Unity and building a game that we can connect up to the cloud to explore building cloud connected games.Sam Wronskifeatured imagehackathonmicrosoft reactorcloudcsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-3/Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:52:33 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-3/Grab a controller and brush off your C# skills - we’re building a game this week! Over the next 3 days (Tuesday - Thursday 11-3 Pacific) we’ll be diving into Unity and building a game that we can connect up to the cloud to explore building cloud connected games.Sam Wronskifeatured imagehackathonmicrosoft reactorcloudcsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-1/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:52:33 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-cloud-game-w-microsoftreactor-day-1/Grab a controller and brush off your C# skills - we’re building a game this week! Over the next 3 days (Tuesday - Thursday 11-3 Pacific) we’ll be diving into Unity and building a game that we can connect up to the cloud to explore building cloud connected games.Sam Wronskifeatured imagehackathonmicrosoft reactorcloudcsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-website-in-c/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:04:41 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-website-in-c/Working on some Blazor website projects. Come and chat!Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamlivecodeasp.netcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/redesigning-our-c-scripting-in-unity-tool/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:04:41 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/redesigning-our-c-scripting-in-unity-tool/Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamlivecodeunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/detect-objects-in-your-camera-view-unity-geometry-utilities/Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:06:20 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/detect-objects-in-your-camera-view-unity-geometry-utilities/Let’s explore how you can detect when an object is inside the players camera view by using the camera’s frustum and axis-aligned bounding boxes (AABB).Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivecodecsharpdotnetunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-explore-global-usings-in-c-10/Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:06:20 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-explore-global-usings-in-c-10/Global usings are a new feature in C# 10 that give you the ability to declare a using directive over every source file in your project instead of needing to duplicate the declaration inside of each file in your projects!Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-3/Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:26:30 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-3/Participating in the https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2022 Join the World of Zero Discord Server: https://discord.gg/hU5Kq2uSam Wronskifeatured imagelivecodehackathonhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-1/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:22:24 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-1/Participating in the https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2022 Join the World of Zero Discord Server: https://discord.gg/hU5Kq2uSam Wronskifeatured imagehackathonlivecodeunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-2/Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:22:24 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-game-of-dice-gmtkjam-2022-day-2/Participating in the https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2022 Join the World of Zero Discord Server: https://discord.gg/hU5Kq2uSam Wronskifeatured imagelivecodehackathonhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-maui-multiplatform-apps-built-with-net/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:59:22 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-maui-multiplatform-apps-built-with-net/.NET MAUI is an open-source framework for building multiplatform user interfaces that can reuse code across iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows!Sam Wronskifeatured imagedotnetcsharplivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/handling-3rd-person-camera-physics-with-spherecasts/Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sat, 04 Jun 2022 09:14:38 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/handling-3rd-person-camera-physics-with-spherecasts/Hello again internet! Let’s dive into how to manage camera physics in your third person cameras using SphereCasts.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutoriallivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/posts/msreactor-building-flappy-cube/Wed, 22 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:28:54 -0800https://worldofzero.com/posts/msreactor-building-flappy-cube/Game development can be a really fun way to combine your creative and technical skills to build fun and original experiences!Sam Wronskiunity3dtutoriallivecodedotnetcsharpmicrosoft reactorhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/demoing-the-tool-and-adding-command-history-linq-for-unity-stream-part-2/Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:02:14 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/demoing-the-tool-and-adding-command-history-linq-for-unity-stream-part-2/Another VOD from the World of Zero Twitch development stream. This is a demo of some of the work that’s happened on the LINQ for Unity tool behind the scenes and also covers introducing command history so that we can track queries run against the tool and quickly rerun them.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivestreamlivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/improving-object-references-linq-for-unity-stream-part-1/Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:58:05 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/improving-object-references-linq-for-unity-stream-part-1/LINQ for Unity is a new tool I’m building that allows you to run C# queries, typically LINQ, that you can then use to modify objects in your scenes easily.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamcsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-tree-based-calculator-in-c/Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 28 May 2021 10:31:36 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-tree-based-calculator-in-c/Let’s explore a calculator that can solve a variety of equations dynamically. We’ll be able to use this solution to explore tree data structures and specifically the use of binary trees to represent and solve common math problems.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/implementing-scene-switching-an-elevator-between-scenes-part-2/Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:57:59 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/implementing-scene-switching-an-elevator-between-scenes-part-2/Continuing our elevator and asynchronous scene management system development let’s try to build a 3-scene system that will allow us to create a base scene with the global game objects (our player, scene transition elevator, camera etc) and the two “floors” we’ll be transitioning between.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodegamehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-make-a-lazy-string-parser-in-c/Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:49:56 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-make-a-lazy-string-parser-in-c/Let’s create a quick string parsing script that can read a long string and return a delimited set of results (we’ll be finding words).Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodetutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/correcting-lighting-on-our-grid-snapped-vertex-shader-with-geometry-shaders/Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:39:57 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/correcting-lighting-on-our-grid-snapped-vertex-shader-with-geometry-shaders/Lets fix our grid snapped vertex custom shader by introducing some improved lighting. Because we’re manipulating our objects geometry inside our shader the normals that are used to calculate lighting are incorrect.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderlivecodeunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/what-happens-when-you-snap-vertices-to-a-grid/Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:15:50 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/what-happens-when-you-snap-vertices-to-a-grid/In this video I get to play with madness. We’ll be exploring what happens if you try to “pixelate” a 3D mesh using a vertex shader.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/pseudo-random-colors-with-hashed-strings/Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:43:05 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/pseudo-random-colors-with-hashed-strings/In this video we’re going to explore a way I approach reproducible pseudo-random number generation that uses calculated hashes to select a random item or property for an object.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodetutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-basic-6-degree-of-freedom-flight-controller/Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-basic-6-degree-of-freedom-flight-controller/A six degree of freedom (6DoF) system describes one where a player is able to freely move along the X, Y and Z axis as well as yaw, pitch and roll their rotation.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodeunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-to-deserialize-yaml-in-c-with-yamldotnet/Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-to-deserialize-yaml-in-c-with-yamldotnet/YAML (Yet Another Markup Language) provides a way to store structured data in files. It can be used in similar ways to other JSON or XML files and is commonly used with Kubernetes and Docker Compose.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnettutoriallivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-worldofzerocom-improved-video-descriptions/Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-worldofzerocom-improved-video-descriptions/I’ve recently been doing a lot of work on my website worldofzero.com in order to help launch the new version and improve the usability and accessibility of the site.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-top-level-programs-in-c-9/Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-top-level-programs-in-c-9/Top-Level Programs is a new feature being introduced in C# 9.0 that significantly simplifies certain C# programs and allows you to remove almost all of the boilerplate code from them.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodetutorialtiphttps://worldofzero.com/videos/starting-to-setup-the-components-day-1-building-a-health-dashboard/Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/starting-to-setup-the-components-day-1-building-a-health-dashboard/This July I’m trying something a bit different. We’re going to try to create complete projects each week of the month.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecontainerslivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-the-idea-wheel-prototype-obs-overlay-from-live-stream/Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-the-idea-wheel-prototype-obs-overlay-from-live-stream/Recently in a live stream we built “The Topic Wheel”/“Idea Wheel” with the goal being to create an interactive element for a stream that could display any number of options and select one of them.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamlivecodeunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/my-time-learning-containerized-developer-environments-live-stream/Thu, 28 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/my-time-learning-containerized-developer-environments-live-stream/Earlier this week we explored remote container environments for development that allow you to install, run and debug your development environments inside of isolated containers.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetcontainerslivestreamlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-the-minefield-game-board-from-live-stream/Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-the-minefield-game-board-from-live-stream/Recently I’ve been live streaming some larger projects on Twitch. We’ve been building out a new version of worldofzero.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamlivecodeunity3dtestcodehealthcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/my-stl-generator-breaks-in-germany-and-other-countries-lets-fix-that/Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/my-stl-generator-breaks-in-germany-and-other-countries-lets-fix-that/A few weeks ago one of you left a comment on an older video of mine that built a 3D Model exporter into Unity.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodedebuggingopensource3d printingunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-operator-overloading-a-custom-string-type/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-operator-overloading-a-custom-string-type/I have a really, really bad idea. I’d like to create a string that can be appended to or prepended to using custom operators.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/im-learning-moq-a-net-mocking-framework-for-unit-tests/Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/im-learning-moq-a-net-mocking-framework-for-unit-tests/Mocking describes a feature in programming that allows you to replace the functionality of an object with a blank version of itself or provide your own functionality in its place.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnettestcodehealthlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/solving-fizzbuzz-with-cs-pattern-matching-switch-statements/Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/solving-fizzbuzz-with-cs-pattern-matching-switch-statements/Pattern Matching was introduced into C# a few years ago and I’ve not really been able to integrate it into my projects.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/an-abstraction-of-our-character-controller/Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/an-abstraction-of-our-character-controller/Lets take a look at building an abstraction over a character controller in our 2D platforming game. The goal of this refactoring and abstraction pattern is to improve the testability and modularity of the character controller.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtestcodehealthcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-a-trochoidal-wave-shader/Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-a-trochoidal-wave-shader/Let’s try to craft some trochoidal waves - a type of fluid simulation that is both fairly simple and also looks pretty good for creating basic waves in an ocean or other fluid.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutoriallivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-coyote-time-in-a-2d-platformer/Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-coyote-time-in-a-2d-platformer/Coyote Time is an idea in platformers that allows the player to jump for a few frames after they have left the platform they are on.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodedebuggingcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/generating-gates-sand-table-part-2/Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/generating-gates-sand-table-part-2/Continuing our development of the Sand Table prototype project we’re going to add gates. We’ll build two components for this.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-and-deleting-highscores-online-highscores-part-2/Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-and-deleting-highscores-online-highscores-part-2/Continuing our creation of an online highscores service, today we’re building the ability to put new scores into our highscores list and also delete them.Sam Wronskifeatured imageasp.netdotnetcsharplivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/prototyping-the-sand-table-sand-table-part-1/Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/prototyping-the-sand-table-sand-table-part-1/I’ve recently moved into a new space and could use some furniture to help fill the space. I’d like to create some interesting objects that can help do that and this is the start of a test project to see what we can build.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/starting-the-highscores-service-online-highscores-part-1/Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/starting-the-highscores-service-online-highscores-part-1/Lets take a look at what is required to create an online highscore board for your Unity game. Throughout this project we’ll take a look at how to create a RESTful web-service, connect it to a database and then expose that web-service to your Unity game.Sam Wronskifeatured imageasp.netdotnetcsharplivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/platforming-and-other-adventures-from-live-stream/Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/platforming-and-other-adventures-from-live-stream/Let’s build some fun projects together today. I’m hoping to work on the platforming of a platformer game and - if time permits - also work on some more MC Clone (a new Minecraft mod).Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-bash-bashrc-and-profile-files-to-initialize-your-terminal/Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-bash-bashrc-and-profile-files-to-initialize-your-terminal/Lets take a look at some of the options Bash gives you to persist your settings between runs and configure your terminal environment.Sam Wronskifeatured imagebashshelllivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/writing-a-snow-covered-shader/Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/writing-a-snow-covered-shader/Lets write a custom snow covered surface shader in Unity that can procedurally generate snow and place it on top of any object in our scene.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-unity-debugging/Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-unity-debugging/Debuggers are a great way to find out what is actually going on in your code. They allow you to pause, inspect and modify the state of your program at any time.Sam Wronskifeatured imagedebuggingunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/writing-our-own-diffuse-lighting-shader/Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/writing-our-own-diffuse-lighting-shader/Lets explore how to build diffuse lighting onto our meshes. This is intended as somewhat of an introduction to some of the magic behind shaders.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-unitys-xr-input-system/Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-unitys-xr-input-system/There are two ways to handle input in your VR games built with Unity. Right now we have used Unity’s Input system to allow us to create Axis and Buttons which can be retrieved using the normal Input.Sam Wronskifeatured imagevrxrlivecodeunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/spinning-in-circles-and-other-mischief-building-asteroids-vr-day-2/Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/spinning-in-circles-and-other-mischief-building-asteroids-vr-day-2/Lets Build Asteroids VR! Specifically lets focus on rotation controls and other movement options like a grappling hook (and potentially more with time permitting).Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamunity3dcsharpdotnetvrxrlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/tracking-rigidbody-velocity-in-asteroids-vr/Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/tracking-rigidbody-velocity-in-asteroids-vr/In order to better track and debug in Asteroids VR I’d like to be able to track how fast the player is moving at any point in time.Sam Wronskifeatured imagevrxrunity3dlivecodedebugginghttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-asteroids-vr-day-1/Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-asteroids-vr-day-1/Lets Build Asteroids VR this Weekend! Asteroids VR is a recreation of the classic Asteroids style of game with a twist.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamunity3dcsharpdotnetvrxrlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-rotated-pixels-circle-pixel-shader-part-5/Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-rotated-pixels-circle-pixel-shader-part-5/I wanted to try something new and sort of experiment with a few concepts that build upon our circle pixel shader.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderlivecodedebuggingopensourcehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/making-our-pixels-round-circle-pixel-shader-part-3/Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/making-our-pixels-round-circle-pixel-shader-part-3/In the past two episodes we’ve created a pixelating shader that divides an image into a lower resolution grid of pixels and a second shader which renders a circle inside of a 1x1 area.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dlivecodeopensourcehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/variable-radius-circle-pixels-circle-pixel-shader-part-4/Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/variable-radius-circle-pixels-circle-pixel-shader-part-4/In the last video we made our circular pixel shader work. It now draws a grid of different colored circles based on the input from the shaders texture.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-the-net-core-command-line/Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-the-net-core-command-line/How do you start a new .NET Core project from the command line? How do you learn how to use the commands and figure out what is available for you?Sam Wronskifeatured imagedotnetlivecodeshellpowershelltoolscsharptutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/a-pixelated-shader-circular-pixel-shader-part-1/Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/a-pixelated-shader-circular-pixel-shader-part-1/Lets make a pixelated shader we can use to easily make a pixelated version of a texture on our Game Objects.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dopensourcelivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-subchunk-spawner-for-asteroids-vr/Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-subchunk-spawner-for-asteroids-vr/Lets refactor the destruction system we built in a recent live stream. This lets us destroy “Asteroids” (read: cubes) in Asteroids VR by subdividing them until a minimum size is reached.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/open-source-contributions-and-other-projects/Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/open-source-contributions-and-other-projects/Lets merge some of your contributions to the World of Zero Open Source projects at github.com/worldofzero Special thanks to:Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivestreamunity3dcsharpdotnetopensourcegitvrxrlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-handles-and-custom-editors-in-unity/Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-handles-and-custom-editors-in-unity/There are a few fun ways to make fantastic Editor tools in Unity for your code. Two of those are Handles and GenericMenu.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/placing-our-health-tracker-component-under-test-with-unity-test-runner/Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/placing-our-health-tracker-component-under-test-with-unity-test-runner/Lets explore this new health tracking component we’ve built by introducing the Unity Test Runner to our project. The Unity Test Runner allows you to add a variety of NUnit tests to your project that allow you to create Edit and Play mode tests.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodetestcodehealthhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-event-based-gameobject-health-in-unity/Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-event-based-gameobject-health-in-unity/Lets make a component that can track a GameObject’s health in Unity and alert other subscribed objects when the health is changed.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/top-down-following-spaceship-controller/Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/top-down-following-spaceship-controller/Now that we have a spaceship controller that can take a direction input and turn that into movement we can start to play around with it.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodecsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-top-down-spaceship-movement-controllers/Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-top-down-spaceship-movement-controllers/How can we turn input on a single joystick into dynamic movement of a spaceship? Let’s explore two new ways we might be able to do that.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodetutorialcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-3d-voxel-cube-in-unity/Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-3d-voxel-cube-in-unity/Lets build a basic colored voxel “chunk” from start to finish! We’ll focus on constructing three main components: a Chunk which stores data about the world, A ChunkGenerator which fills the Chunk with initial information (it builds the world) and a MeshGenerator that converts our Chunk into a Mesh you can see.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivecodecsharpunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/color-contrast-shader-lets-make-a-side-scrolling-shooter-part-3/Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/color-contrast-shader-lets-make-a-side-scrolling-shooter-part-3/Continuing to build out our side scrolling shooter. We’re going to be building an effect that is essential to one of the main mechanics I am trying to build for this game.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderlivecodecsharpdotnetunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/parsing-text-with-regular-expressions-unity-observer-part-5/Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/parsing-text-with-regular-expressions-unity-observer-part-5/Let’s take a look at improving the usability of Unity Observer by reducing the number of text boxes we use to search.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-markdown-based-powerpoint-presentations-with-remarkjs/Thu, 31 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-markdown-based-powerpoint-presentations-with-remarkjs/Remark is a tool that lets you build Markdown based Slideshow presentations that you can run in any web browser.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetypescriptweblivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/finding-components-on-gameobjects-unity-observer-part-4/Wed, 30 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/finding-components-on-gameobjects-unity-observer-part-4/Lets make Unity Observer a bit more useful! In this video we’ll add support for accessing different components by name other than the current support for Transforms.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-reflection-unity-observer-part-3/Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-reflection-unity-observer-part-3/Returning to Unity Observer, a project that enables you to easily analyze data in bulk from your Unity scenes.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-uwp-task-list/Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/live-coding-a-uwp-task-list/Previously we tried building a task list in the Blazor alpha, what would that look like in UWP? Let’s find out!Sam Wronskifeatured imageuwplivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/taking-a-look-at-groovy-memoized-functions/Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/taking-a-look-at-groovy-memoized-functions/Reading up on some of the features of Groovy I stumbled upon the @Memoized annotation. This method annotation allows you to tell Groovy to memoize the results from a function.Sam Wronskifeatured imagelivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/i-learn-blazor-c-in-your-web-browser/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/i-learn-blazor-c-in-your-web-browser/Wouldn’t it be cool if you could run C# code in a web browser? Blazor is a tool that compiles C# code into functioning web assembly that can be deployed like a normal webpage.Sam Wronskifeatured imageasp.netcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-glsl-shaders-in-a-real-time-shader-editor-kodelife/Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-glsl-shaders-in-a-real-time-shader-editor-kodelife/KodeLife is a powerful cross platform shader editor for Mac, PC or Linux. It overlays a text editor and debugger on top of the real-time results of your shader.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderlivecodetoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/snow-in-the-wind-dynamic-snow-in-unity-part-5/Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/snow-in-the-wind-dynamic-snow-in-unity-part-5/Let’s add wind! The goal is to make snow “flow” across the land over time and create drifts from indentations.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutoriallivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/dropping-boxes-mixer-stream-savers-part-2/Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/dropping-boxes-mixer-stream-savers-part-2/The next step is dropping cubes. We’re building a game that can be played live using some of the interactive features of Mixer.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/the-tilting-tower-mixer-stream-savers-part-1/Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/the-tilting-tower-mixer-stream-savers-part-1/We’re returning to our Mixer game with a game plan this time. The goal is to build small games that can be used almost like an interactive screen saver when you need to AFK during a live stream.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dlivecodecsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/deploy-aspnet-core-webapi-to-kubernetes-on-docker-live-coding/Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/deploy-aspnet-core-webapi-to-kubernetes-on-docker-live-coding/Docker for Windows/Mac has recently introduced built in Kubernetes support. With no prior experience using Kubernetes on Docker let’s see if we can setup and deploy a simple ASP.Sam Wronskifeatured imagekubernetesdotnetasp.netcontainerslivecodecsharphttps://worldofzero.com/videos/skateboard-locomotion-exploring-new-ways-to-move-with-vive-trackers/Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/skateboard-locomotion-exploring-new-ways-to-move-with-vive-trackers/I’ve been exploring different ways of locomotion since starting to work with the HTC Vive. This new project is an extension of that.Sam Wronskifeatured imagevrxrunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/gllines-drawing-lines-manually-in-unity/Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/gllines-drawing-lines-manually-in-unity/You use Unity’s Gizmos all the time for debugging and your app. What if you want those lines in play mode?Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dgamecsharpdotnettutoriallivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/6-degrees-of-freedom-spaceship-the-wrong-way/Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/6-degrees-of-freedom-spaceship-the-wrong-way/A 6 Degree of Freedom controller is capable of six types of movement. It can move along the X, Y and Z axis but also has Yaw, Pitch and Roll.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/the-world-is-ending-and-i-might-have-caused-it-dreamhack-jam/Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/the-world-is-ending-and-i-might-have-caused-it-dreamhack-jam/Jump and BOOM! Lets make a game for the #dreamhackjam. More information about the DreamHack Jam: http://jams.gamejolt.io/dreamhackjam Jump Bang source: https://github.Sam Wronskifeatured imagehackathonlivestreamunity3dcsharpdotnetlivecodehttps://worldofzero.com/videos/dungeon-building-summer-slow-jam-performance-a-game-in-a-stream-part-2/Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/dungeon-building-summer-slow-jam-performance-a-game-in-a-stream-part-2/We are making a top down shooter. That’s cool right? But wait there is more! This isn’t just any top down shooter, this game isn’t even played on your computer!Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivestreamlivecodehackathonshaderhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/summer-slow-jam-performance-a-game-in-a-stream-part-1/Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/summer-slow-jam-performance-a-game-in-a-stream-part-1/We are making a top down shooter. That’s cool right? But wait there is more! This isn’t just any top down shooter, this game isn’t even played on your computer!Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetlivestreamhackathonlivecode