Fake it until you make it. Or until somebody else makes it.
Recently the devilishly handsome Nick Breslin asked about an alternative to namespaces in Unity. Namespaces are a familiar concept to C# programmers that solve the problem of naming collisions, but Unity has yet to support them. The documentation promises that this limitation “will be removed in a future version,” but don’t hold your breath. You need to breathe. (more…)
These make my life easier. Perhaps even more than the Slap Chop.
A feature that appeared briefly in a beta release of Unity 3.0, but which has since disappeared, is editor macros. The reason for the feature’s withdrawal is unclear. Presumably it’s simply unready for primetime, and will appear in a future version of Unity. Fortunately the ability to evaluate arbitrary code snippets in the editor is still available in the UnityEditor.Macros namespace, and taking advantage of it is easier than racing a sloth. (more…)
That’s the title of my favourite film!
A quick update regarding the Unity Cutscene Editor. (more…)
I am neither a geek nor a tool.
Yesterday I mentioned how terribly inconvenient having to fire up OS X’s Console.app to view Unity’s web player debug log is. The in-game console script I supplied eases some of that pain, but there are still times when I find myself wanting to view Unity’s logs and dreaming of a fantasy land where this is easier to do. Propitiously, that fantasy land exists in a free utility named GeekTool, which through careful calculation I’ve determined kicks severe amounts of ass. (more…)