I’ve been working on the in game pause screen for a bit now. I really wanted to let the user see the island as a whole plus have the ability generate new islands (start a new game) while in the game mode. It’s actually turned out pretty nice 🙂 The “only” things left are to…
Tag: Game Development
Arg… the loop (part 2)
I didn’t realise how much effort looping the map was going to be. I’ve still got visible tearing and shadow issues at the edges and now an – albeit minor – audio problem. Unity comes with a great method for playing audio at the correct volume based on the distance between the listener and the…
Blender
It’s been a while since my last update. Things on the game front have been moving along fairly nicely although building the models is rather more taxing than I thought it would be. My relationship with Blender is a bit of a love/hate thing. SO much seems counter intuitive but it’s clearly such a powerful…
Arg… the loop
Getting the map to loop has been a massive pain. To be specific, instantly transporting the player from one end to the other is easy, it’s filling in the blanks at each end with a view from soon to be reached other end that is the problem. So far the best solution I’ve come up…
Unity Health Bar Slider
This took me way longer to discover than I thought it would. I’d implemented a UI Slider to display health (actually I’m using it as a fuel gauge but the principle remains the same) which worked fine but I wanted to change the colour as the players health/fuel reduced, and then flash if perilously low.…