Usually when working with textures in Unity you may have a few specific requirements on how textures should be imported. Compression, mip-maps, filter mode, and wrap are usually my most commonly set flags. I’ve taken[…]
Game Development And Timelines
I have been working with Galatea Studios here in Tucson as we work on some exciting and unique projects. As we move forward with new projects Monty posed the question to me: “Can we define[…]
Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 2: Virtual Stereoscope
In Part 1 I learn about the history of stereoscopic photography. Here in Part 2Â I am attempting to display stereoscope cards from the 1890s on my futuristic Google Cardboard. I took some time to calibrate[…]
Stereoscopes and Cardboard Part 1: Digital Archaeology
Here in Part 1, I attempt to learn more about the history of stereoscopic photography. Part 2 involves converting this old photography into a Google Cardboard virtual reality app. I was in a rather large[…]
Fixing Time Machine Files
Infrequently I’ll grab something off my Time Machine. But restoring stuff from time machine can sometimes fail. For example if you are restoring a file from another computer. I then have to resort to copying[…]
Fixing Cmd-tab for Full Screen in Hearthstone on Mac
One of the more annoying things about Hearthstone on Mac is Blizzard’s decision/oversight to not allow cmd-tab to work in full-screen mode. Considering its written in Unity, and I’m a Unity game dev I knew[…]
Unity Tips: Running from the Command Line
Running Unity from the command line has a few benefits. And its easy: UNITY_VERSION=4.6.7p4 BRANCH=trunk /Applications/Unity$UNITY_VERSION/Unity.app/Contents/MacOS/Unity -projectPath /Users/chris/Projects/MyProject/$BRANCH/unity_project Open multiple projects! You can specify a Unity version (I usually immediately rename Unity to Unity$VERSION due[…]
The Knife Juggalo
Unbelievably, Google image search failed me when I searched for the Knife Juggalo. How could this mashup not exist? So I had to make this: Enjoy.
My Favorite Game Soundtracks
Hey do you like music? I got some records back at my place. You want to come by and check them out? You do? THIS NEVERÂ HAPPENS WITH VIDEO GAME MUSIC. First, a lot of music[…]
Top Best Most Awesome of 2014: Strava
So far the Best Most Awesome has been games and movies. Because what else is there in life, right?! As I’ve already mentioned, friends are for people who don’t own video games. I do leave[…]