https://worldofzero.com/tags/unity3d/Recent content in unity3d 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/creating-a-mouse-controlled-flashlight/Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 16 May 2025 07:28:43 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-mouse-controlled-flashlight/Lets take a look at how we can use Unity’s Camera.ScreenPointToRay function to adjust the rotation of a spotlight to always point where our mouse is located on the screen.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-custom-unity-pixelated-post-processing-effect-in-shader-graph/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:55:10 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-custom-unity-pixelated-post-processing-effect-in-shader-graph/Lets dive into Shader Graph and how you can use it in Universal Rendering Pipeline Unity projects to create post processing effects for your game.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dshaderhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/an-intro-to-json-serialization-and-deserialization-in-unity/Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:37:53 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/an-intro-to-json-serialization-and-deserialization-in-unity/JSON is a common data format that stores data in human-readable strings that can be interpreted by computers. This makes it possible for you and other people to read and modify the raw data and pass that information along to internal systems for use.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-scriptable-objects-in-unity/Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 09 Apr 2023 06:21:44 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-scriptable-objects-in-unity/ScriptableObject’s are a way to make configurable objects you can attach to MonoBehavior’s or others objects. This allows you to quickly create and swap out data on your game objects without having to create and manage entire object Prefabs.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/automatically-processing-assets-with-custom-unity-asset-pipelines/Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:01:55 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/automatically-processing-assets-with-custom-unity-asset-pipelines/Continuing our journey of adding the ability to easily use SVG assets in Unity, today we’re going to be exploring how to automatically process and convert SVGs to PNGs whenever one is added to our Unity project.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dhttps://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/tracking-task-progress-in-unity/Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 25 Dec 2022 10:56:42 -0800https://worldofzero.com/videos/tracking-task-progress-in-unity/Let’s start expanding on the SVGs in Unity project we started that converts SVG’s into an image format that is usable by Unity (https://www.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dtutorialhttps://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/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/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/sending-real-time-messages-to-unity-from-a-blazor-website-signalr-in-unity-part-3/Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:20:08 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/sending-real-time-messages-to-unity-from-a-blazor-website-signalr-in-unity-part-3/Let’s complete our SignalR in Unity experiment by adding a Blazor Website to it. This will allow us to use a browser to send messages directly to Unity to create updates instead of either needing to install a Unity game or run a console app.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dasp.nethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/adding-unity-support-signalr-in-unity-part-2/Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:23:48 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/adding-unity-support-signalr-in-unity-part-2/The next part of this experiment is integrating Unity with the rest of our SignalR components so that they can communicate with one another.Sam Wronskifeatured imagedotnetcsharpunity3dhttps://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/creating-a-stepped-gradient-shader-in-unity/Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:00:06 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/creating-a-stepped-gradient-shader-in-unity/Let’s build a stepped gradient in Unity! This is a form of gradient with hard transitions between the different keyframes in the gradient which creates clear blocks of color like you might see on a flag or logo.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/supporting-grid-rendering-linq-for-unity-part-3/Sat, 17 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 20 Jul 2021 01:30:00 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/supporting-grid-rendering-linq-for-unity-part-3/Unity’s Editor UI does not support rendering elements in a grid. For some elements like Textures, Meshes and Materials rendering the results in a vertical list does not use the space of the LINQ for Unity editor view very effectively so a grid-based view could provide a much more concise and cleaner UI.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-animatedvalues-in-custom-unity-editors/Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:02:14 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-animatedvalues-in-custom-unity-editors/When working with the Unity editor it can be useful to animate the movement of a value from one place to the next.Sam Wronskifeatured imagedotnetcsharpunity3dhttps://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/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/animating-the-elevator-an-elevator-between-scenes-part-1/Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:58:04 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/animating-the-elevator-an-elevator-between-scenes-part-1/Let’s start a new project that allows us to load scenes using riding an elevator as the transition. To start with we’ll be building the animation controlling the opening and closing of the elevator doors.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-contextmenu-and-contextmenuitem-in-unity-3d/Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sun, 28 Mar 2021 08:19:58 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-contextmenu-and-contextmenuitem-in-unity-3d/There are a lot of options available to you when you want to test your project in Unity3D and validate that your code actually does what you think it does.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-async-unity-scene-loading/Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:16:09 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-async-unity-scene-loading/I’ve been working on re-learning how to work with scenes in Unity and am planning a larger project around the feature, but wanted to bring all of you on my journey.Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dtutorialhttps://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/a-world-space-grid-snapped-shader/Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:15:12 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/a-world-space-grid-snapped-shader/Expanding upon our exploration of a shader that snaps vertices to a grid. This time we’re moving things into world space!Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dshadertutorialhttps://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/rotation-math-tricks-using-unitys-quaternion-operators/Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/rotation-math-tricks-using-unitys-quaternion-operators/Unity provides a few operators that can make some common tasks with quaternions easier to accomplish. You can multiple a quaternion and vector to rotate the vector by the provided quaternion’s rotation or multiple two quaternions together in order to add the two rotations they represent together.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettiphttps://worldofzero.com/videos/detecting-objects-with-raycasts-in-unity3d/Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:51:13 -0700https://worldofzero.com/videos/detecting-objects-with-raycasts-in-unity3d/Raycasts provide a way for you to project lines through your scenes and detect the objects they hit as well as return important information about what they hit.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-obstacle-avoidance-in-unity-3d/Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/experimenting-with-obstacle-avoidance-in-unity-3d/Lets explore building a self steering ship that can automatically move out of the way of obstacles in it’s path.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/getting-started-with-pathfinding-using-dijkstras-algorithm/Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/getting-started-with-pathfinding-using-dijkstras-algorithm/Lets explore pathfinding by implementing Dijkstra’s Algorithm. Dijkstra’s Algorithm is a pathfinding algorithm that works by calculating the distance from any node in a graph to a target node.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://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/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/building-obs-overlays-in-unity-3d/Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-obs-overlays-in-unity-3d/OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) is a tool for recording your screen and other sources to create lets plays, live streams and more.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dwebhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/introducing-testing-into-our-platformer/Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/introducing-testing-into-our-platformer/Previously we had looked into providing an abstraction layer over our character controller to allow us to build modular pieces instead of a single monolithic character controller.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetestunity3ddotnethttps://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/customize-unity-editor-generated-scripts-quick-tip/Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/customize-unity-editor-generated-scripts-quick-tip/You can modify the default scripts Unity generates for you when you use create new MonoBehaviors from inside the editor, generate new Tests or Shaders.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetipcsharpdotnetunity3dhttps://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/using-debugdrawline-and-debugdrawray-to-visually-debug-unity-3d-quick-tip/Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-debugdrawline-and-debugdrawray-to-visually-debug-unity-3d-quick-tip/Unity provides a series of tools for registering Debug information in our games. The most commonly used functions are the logging ones like Debug.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetipunity3dcsharpdotnetdebuggingtutorialhttps://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/loading-levels-from-textures-in-unity-3d/Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/loading-levels-from-textures-in-unity-3d/Lets explore using a Texture2D as a way to represent tilemapped 2D levels. This gives us a way to easily draw levels in paint, photoshop or other image editing software and import it easily into Unity.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/importing-net-libraries-into-unity-3d/Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/importing-net-libraries-into-unity-3d/You can import .NET Libraries into Unity in order to expose additional functionality in your game. In this video we’re going to build a basic demonstration of this feature by creating a brand new .Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/runtime-c-scripting-in-unity-ui-the-roslyn-compiler-in-unity/Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/runtime-c-scripting-in-unity-ui-the-roslyn-compiler-in-unity/Lets integrate the .NET Roslyn compiler into a Unity game so we can run basic scripts at runtime. This will allow us to write new C# code into a Unity UI object like a Text Box and then execute it.Sam Wronskifeatured imagedotnetunity3dcsharphttps://worldofzero.com/videos/runtime-c-scripting-embedding-the-net-roslyn-compiler-in-unity/Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/runtime-c-scripting-embedding-the-net-roslyn-compiler-in-unity/I’ve been experimenting with embedding Roslyn (the .NET compiler) into Unity. Here is what I’ve built so far.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-boids-in-unity-3d/Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-boids-in-unity-3d/Boids are a type of basic AI that can simulate the flocking movement of birds using a few simple rules:Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/calculating-dice-sides-from-a-meshs-normals/Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/calculating-dice-sides-from-a-meshs-normals/Today I wanted to take a closer look at an older video where we built a dice roller that used Dot Products to determine which face on a dice was rolled.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/dynamic-game-speed-unity-quick-tip/Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/dynamic-game-speed-unity-quick-tip/You are able to modify the speed of most objects, animations and physics using a single value: Time.timeScale. Modifying this value from it’s default (1) causes the game to run slower (values less than 1) or faster (values greater than 1).Sam Wronskifeatured imagetiptutorialunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://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/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/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-zenject-learning-how-to-use-dependency-injection-in-unity/Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-zenject-learning-how-to-use-dependency-injection-in-unity/Zenject is a Dependency Injection Container Framework built for .NET that is also compatible with Unity. Lets learn some of the basics of how to get Zenject setup and start injecting components.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnetopensourcehttps://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/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/turning-circular-pixels-into-diamond-pixels/Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/turning-circular-pixels-into-diamond-pixels/In previous videos we’ve built a pixel shader that renders circles instead of the traditional squares. You can rotate the pixels so that the circles can be oriented at any angle to one another.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dopensourcegittutorialhttps://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/lets-draw-a-circle-circle-pixel-shader-part-2/Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/lets-draw-a-circle-circle-pixel-shader-part-2/Last time we built a grid of pixels for our circular pixel shader. In this video, part 2, we’re going to be figuring out how to draw a circle.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dopensourcegithttps://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/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/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/hdrp-post-processing-volumes-in-unity/Wed, 29 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/hdrp-post-processing-volumes-in-unity/With the Scriptable Render Pipeline in Unity 2019 a new post-processing concept has been introduced. This allows you to define Volumes which apply a set of effects across the scene or to a particular portion of the screen.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dhttps://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/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/draw-debug-information-in-the-unity-editor-with-gizmos-quick-tip/Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/draw-debug-information-in-the-unity-editor-with-gizmos-quick-tip/Unity makes it possible to draw simple debugging information in your scene and even in-game while using the Unity Editor using Gizmos.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetipunity3dtutorialcsharpdebugginghttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-and-drawing-a-graph-in-unity-using-gizmos/Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-and-drawing-a-graph-in-unity-using-gizmos/Unity’s Gizmos can be a really powerful way to debug your objects and relationships. In this video we’re going to be focusing on drawing a graph, a set of nodes and edges with unique characteristics.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/modifying-vectors-with-matrices/Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/modifying-vectors-with-matrices/Matrices are an extremely powerful tool when working with vectors. They’re the magic that makes a lot of the code in our shaders work, but they also work in a lot of handy other places.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/validate-unity-inspector-input-with-onvalidate-quick-tip/Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/validate-unity-inspector-input-with-onvalidate-quick-tip/Unity provides a funtion that allows your MonoBehaviors to be alerted when values are changed on it in the inspector.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtiptutorialhttps://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/mouse-following-top-down-space-ship-controller/Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/mouse-following-top-down-space-ship-controller/Lets make a top down controller that plays a bit more nicely with the mouse. This will allow us to direct our ship by having it move towards the mouse instead of requiring the controller or keyboard input we have required up to this point.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dcsharpdotnettutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/rigidbody-top-down-spaceship-controller/Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/rigidbody-top-down-spaceship-controller/We have a spaceship that can fly around, but we have a problem. It can fly through things. Lets fix that by changing our current transformation modification into physical forces on a rigidbody!Sam Wronskifeatured imagecsharpdotnetunity3dtutorialhttps://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/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/rotating-unity-gizmos-quick-tip/Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/rotating-unity-gizmos-quick-tip/Gizmos are a really handy way to indicate a whole range of interesting information during development of your project.Sam Wronskifeatured imagetipunity3dtutorialcsharpdotnethttps://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/exploring-dot-products-in-unity/Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/exploring-dot-products-in-unity/Dot Products are a really easy and fun way to compare Vectors in space. When comparing two normalized with a dot product the result will be the cosine of the angle between the two Vectors.Sam Wronskifeatured imagegametutorialunity3dcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/ring-to-ripples-ripple-in-shader-graph-part-3/Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/ring-to-ripples-ripple-in-shader-graph-part-3/Time to finally catch our Shader Graph Ripple Shader up to the existing Ripple we created in a Surface Shader a while ago.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/shooting-through-walls-with-bullet-penetration-in-unity/Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/shooting-through-walls-with-bullet-penetration-in-unity/Lets take a look at how you might build a solution that allows you to fire projectiles through walls of varying sizes.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/rendering-3d-objects-in-your-ui-using-multiple-cameras/Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/rendering-3d-objects-in-your-ui-using-multiple-cameras/One issue that is often encountered when building first person games is that the really close objects like weapons or hands will clip through nearby walls.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-custom-node-in-unitys-shader-graph/Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/building-a-custom-node-in-unitys-shader-graph/With the introduction of Shader Graph Unity also added support for Custom Nodes you can build yourself by creating custom CodeFunctionNode.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutorialcsharpdotnethttps://worldofzero.com/videos/using-properties-and-steps-in-part-2-of-our-ripple-in-shader-graph/Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/using-properties-and-steps-in-part-2-of-our-ripple-in-shader-graph/There is still so much to learn in Unity’s new Shader Graph feature. In this video our focus is twofold.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-how-to-use-step-and-smoothstep-in-shaders/Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/learning-how-to-use-step-and-smoothstep-in-shaders/A number of people have commented that we should be using step or smoothstep instead of some of the branching if/else blocks we’ve used in other videos (branches in shaders tend to perform worse than other functions).Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/a-circle-shader-in-shader-graph-ripple-in-shader-graph-part-1/Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/a-circle-shader-in-shader-graph-ripple-in-shader-graph-part-1/Lets learn Shader Graph by building our ripple shader entirely within Shader Graph. The goal of this series is to reproduce the ripple shader we’ve been working on and compare/contrast the process of building the same shader in both tools that Unity makes available to you.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dtutorialshaderhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/point-and-ripple-ripple-shader-part-2/Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/point-and-ripple-ripple-shader-part-2/Welcome back! Let’s expand our Ripple Shader so it’s a bit easier to control and set the groundwork for some of the upcoming features we’ll want to build for it.Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/can-you-hear-me-now-trying-and-failing-to-use-unitys-microphone/Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/can-you-hear-me-now-trying-and-failing-to-use-unitys-microphone/I’ve never used Unity’s Microphone API’s before. Let’s explore them together and get lost while we make something cool!Sam Wronskifeatured imagedebuggingcsharpdotnetunity3dhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/a-static-glowing-ring-ripple-shader-part-1/Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/a-static-glowing-ring-ripple-shader-part-1/Lets make a new shader in Unity that sends a ripple out across an object to reveal the texture underneath it!Sam Wronskifeatured imageshaderunity3dtutorialhttps://worldofzero.com/videos/improving-the-voxel-cube-with-lighting-and-optimized-updates/Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000contact@worldofzero.com (Sam Wronski)Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:06:36 +0000https://worldofzero.com/videos/improving-the-voxel-cube-with-lighting-and-optimized-updates/One of the big advantages of recording yourself building things is you get to watch it all back, a built in code review while you edit.Sam Wronskifeatured imageunity3dshadertutorialcsharphttps://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 imagelivecodecsharpunity3dtutorial