https://worldofzero.com/tags/tools/Recent content in tools on World of ZeroHugo -- gohugo.ioencontact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)©2025, All Rights ReservedFri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/generating-images-from-svgs-with-unity-and-inkscape/Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:04:41 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/generating-images-from-svgs-with-unity-and-inkscape/Often when building a project you’ll need to do some sort of repetitive task as part of the work.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettoolsshelltutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/posts/pride-windows-terminal/Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 04 Apr 2021 17:12:00 -0700https://worldofzero.com/posts/pride-windows-terminal/Flags! But in your Terminal with Shaders. Getting Started Enabling Shaders in Your Terminal There is currently an experimental feature in the Windows Terminal that allows you to assign a HLSL shader to your terminal to customize its appearance.Sam Wronskifeatured imagewindowstoolsopensourcetipshellshaderhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/quickly-trim-video-snippets-on-the-command-line-with-ffmpeg/Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:17:15 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/quickly-trim-video-snippets-on-the-command-line-with-ffmpeg/FFmpeg is an open source tool that allows you to edit, encode, decode, transcode and more audio or video from your command line.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetiptutorialtoolsshellopensourcehttps://worldofzero.com/posts/editing-streams-with-ffmpeg-cli/Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:03:32 -0700https://worldofzero.com/posts/editing-streams-with-ffmpeg-cli/FFmpeg is a tool that helps you work with audio and visual files. It can significantly improve the speed of quick edits to a video or stream by editing a copy of the original instead of re-encoding your entire video.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetoolstiptutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/posts/powertoys-color-picker/Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:24:15 -0800https://worldofzero.com/posts/powertoys-color-picker/PowerToys adds a series of useful tools to your Windows computer including a color picker that lets you easily lookup the color of any pixel on your screen.Sam Wronskiwindowstoolsopensourcetiphttps://worldofzero.com/posts/enable-font-ligatures-vscode/Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 18 Nov 2020 23:21:52 -0800https://worldofzero.com/posts/enable-font-ligatures-vscode/Font ligatures combine multiple characters into a single unique character. Some fonts provide ligatures specifically for software development. Some free fonts that support ligatures are:Sam Wronskifeatured imagetoolstiptutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/i-learn-how-to-make-bash-flip-tables-when-i-break-things/Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/i-learn-how-to-make-bash-flip-tables-when-i-break-things/Lets take a look at how to customize a bash shell. We’ll be making our shell print a table flip whenever the last command failed.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshellbashpowershelltutorialtoolshttps://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/search-your-workspace-in-visual-studio-code-quick-tip/Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/search-your-workspace-in-visual-studio-code-quick-tip/Visual Studio Code allows you to search and filter your workspace explorer to more easily find certain files within a project.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetiptoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/focus-and-follow-game-objects-in-unitys-scene-view-quick-tip/Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/focus-and-follow-game-objects-in-unitys-scene-view-quick-tip/Unity’s editor includes a handy feature that enables you to quickly focus on and follow Game Object’s in your scene view.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtoolstiptutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-context-menu-in-custom-unity-editors/Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-context-menu-in-custom-unity-editors/I’ve been experimenting with creating custom Inspectors and Editor Windows in Unity lately and one of the features I’ve found is the GenericMenu class.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/math-in-the-unity-inspector-quick-tip/Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/math-in-the-unity-inspector-quick-tip/Unity has made it a bit easier to compute some values in their editor windows by allowing you to enter math formula’s into the inspector.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetipunity3dtutorialtoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-an-editor-window-unity-observer-part-0/Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-an-editor-window-unity-observer-part-0/New project time! We’re going to build a fun new editor tool. But enough of that, we’ll get to the tool later.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharptoolshttps://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/welcome-to-docker-docker-hub-and-mongo-db/Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/welcome-to-docker-docker-hub-and-mongo-db/Our first look at containers and how to use them using Docker for Windows. We’ll be creating a MongoDB instance using an image from Docker Hub and then connecting to it using a local mongo cli.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecontainerstoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/working-with-csvs-in-windows-powershell/Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/working-with-csvs-in-windows-powershell/Powershell is a relatively unique and very powerful command line interface (CLI) and with Windows 10 is now the default shell for Windows.Sam Wronskifeatured imagepowershelltoolshttps://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-make-a-custom-unity-editor-window-unity-interactive-part-1/Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-make-a-custom-unity-editor-window-unity-interactive-part-1/Reflection and custom editor windows. Sounds like a fun experiment! In this video we’ll begin work on a project I’m calling Unity Live.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dtoolstutorial