Hi im Lotte, if you want to support me [making stuff / writing helpful tutorials / tweeting about unity / posting selfies] you can totally do that!
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It might be an unpopular opinion but I think commented code is hella super important?!? Self-documenting code is a really worthwhile goal but sometimes code that looks deceptively simple can be almost impenetrable 6 months time! put that extra work in, be *exhaustive*
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Yesterdays Unity new deffo for sure wasn't aimed at game devs like us, so i decided to check on yahoo finance to see what investor stock market type people were saying about the acquisition. TURNS OUT THEY HATE IT AS MUCH AS WE DO
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
HEYA FRIENDS! So
@unity3d
2019.1 is OUT and there's basically one feature that is like a TOTAL GAME CHANGER and 300% makes the upgrade worth it by itself LIKE SERIOUSLY OMFG PLEASE INSTALL 2019.1 JUST FOR CLICKABLE STACK TRACES!! look at this! HOW GOOD IS THIS!
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CLICK THAT STACK
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
You ever think about that guy who wrote a tutorial on how to clean and fix up an old Donkey Kong game&watch and cleaned off Shigeru Miyamoto's signature? I hope they are doing good
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Do you work at a tech company owned by a creepy weirdo billionaire that just sent out an email at 2:40am banning you from doing remote work, despite that being a super productive corporate policy? Maybe its time to talk to coworkers about forming that union. Its legal and cool!!!
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends, check out my prototype custom physics engine! It can simulate 16,000 objects under forces with basic collision on my PC~ (that many rigidbodies just crashes!) This is implemented with the new Unity Job system, using raycasts, lots of scope for optimization!
#Unity3D
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
So yeah!
@unity3d
announced a brand new physics engine called 'Unity Physics' and it looks HYPER FUN! lets dig in and have a quick look friends! Its based on the new DOTS tech, so its written in ECS, 100% C#, burst optimized and available as a package (com.unity.physics!)
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends! ๐โโ๏ธ๐ Have you noticed this new* button thats been on your Unity toolbar and wondered what the hell it is? ๐ WELL ITS ACTUALLY SUPER COOL! ITS CUSTOM EDITOR TOOLS TIME LETS LEARN โจALLโจABOUT THEM!!
(*well, new since 2019.1)
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Finally had a chance to do some more work on my Unity Jobs/ECS based custom physics engine! 150,000 objects @ 30 fps! Dosnt use PhysX at all now - totally custom raycasting engine which is 100% C# implemented as a Unity Job
#Unity3D
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends! Ive been doing a lot of
@Unity3D
UI work recently and hooking up references to controls is boring, so i made a little tool to automate it - Property Drawers are HYPER powerful, and great to learn about๐
#UnityTips
you can grab the code here
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
I was in this meeting as well - Freya stood up for unity users and said what needed to be said in the only space where it could be directly heard by those who needed to listen. we all did our best out there. It was real queen shit, you have NO idea how cool she was lol
Im expreimenting with generating meshes for volumetric 2D lights with the new Unity Job System - its hella fast when you can just throw raycasts at all your CPU cores!
#unity3d
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Unity 2018.3beta is out - here's its killer feature
"Scripting: The templates we use to generate scripts are now formatted to Unity-standard convention" 11/10
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Sup Friends! Lets do some Editor Scripting! theres a whole bunch of cool tech unity have added over the last year or so thats SO worth knowing about. Lets buildsomething with...
- [SerializeReference]
- TypeCache
- SerializedObjects
- ReorderableArrays
exciting!
#UnityTips
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
๐ฎ polls open 7am-10pm
๐บ you dont need your polling card
๐ธ you dont need ID
๐ป you dont need proof of address
๐ผ you can hand in your postal vote
๐ท in an emergency, you can get a proxy vote till 5pm
๐ง go vote whatever the weather
๐ป kick out a tory
๐ธ tell all your friends
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Over the weekend I experimented with making custom skybox shaders for unity, it's great how the lighting system just picks it up! Also, turns out its really easy to convert ShaderToy shaders to work as skyboxes
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends! Ive just published a Unity 2018.1 Job system demo project! if your interested in building large scale dynamic sims in unity you should deffo check it out~ Its a fully working example of using Jobs with complicated dependencies
#UnityTips
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Has a dev made a change to a game that you dont like? Want to harass them-like REAL BAD!? Just install the game! Then delete it! and then install it! loop! Brigading the reviews like a dweeb, hit them where it hurts! did your favorite Hearthstone card get nerfed?Time to reinstall
#Unity3D
also quietly launched the new SpriteShape feature today! it's going to be an incredible addition to your 2D workflows! SpriteShape lets you tile a sprite along a path, so you can build cool shapes and 2d Terrain
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
@Hoeyboey
custom designed 3D printed case, three cherry mechanical switches, a Teensy 3.5 acting as a HID device, some custom code to send the key strokes and a little bit of soldering work.... and one blue LED heh
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
#UnityTip
When you select an object in the Unity editor, it likes to pick the topmost object in the hierarchy, which isnt always what you want๐ญ Did you know you can use the [SelectionBase] attribute to give the editor a hint as to which object it should actually be picking? ๐ฉโ๐ป๐
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
the new prefab workflows in
@Unity3D
are SO good, heres a tiny little gif of how much better the inspector UX is when dealing with an instance of a prefab. First up we can see what properties have been overridden with the helpful blue bars on the left edge of the inspector!
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
QUESTION: is this a real disease? It is a virus? or just genetic? How would a person go about getting themselves infected with it... you know.. accidentally... im asking for a friend obvs... *laughs nervously*
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
HEY YOU! I know *exactly* what your thinking right now- your thinking "I have two DS games and I WISH the were hidden inside a fake green tea macaron, thats the *ONLY* thing that could possibly bring me joy right now IM SO SAD SUCH A ITEM COULD NEVER EXIST"
IVE GOT NEWS FOR YOU
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
#UnityTips
Heya friends did you know about the [FormerlySerializedAs(..)] attribute? You know when you change the name of a property and Unity loses its data? With this you can tell it a properties old names, so it can fix up your GameObjects and move data into the new property๐
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Hello friends! Its 2022! Have you seen all the cool new stuff you can do with the Unity profiler recently?! LIKE! HECK! over the last while they added so much?!
FIRST OFF did you know you can create totally custom views now?
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
I HAVE A LITERAL ARMY OF
@UNITY3D
BETA DUCKS TO GIVE AWAY~~ follow me and retweet this tweet for a chance to win ๐ฆ๐ on Friday Iโll pick 5 ppl WHO SHALL BE GRACED WITH BETA DUCK. QUACK.
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Hey Friends i bet you have lots of components that have a Min/Max setting, and having two textboxes for adding in numbers isnt always the best UI for that. You can use my MinMaxAttribute to dress them up with this fancy slider!
#UnityTips
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Itโs amazing how all the richest men in the world want to be the guy running the evil megacorp space colony in sci-fi stories. Almost as if they lack the media literacy and critical thinking needed to understand incredibly simple stories cos WOAH COOL SPACESHIP
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends- ive been generating meshs via Unity jobs recently- i wanted a fast way to convert between a Vector3[] and a NativeArray<float3> and i wanted it to be FAST. this is one neat way ive come up with! Unity 2018.x lets us us memcpy
#unitytips
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
๐โโ๏ธUnity just released a reference copy of all the Runtime and Editor C# source code! We dont have to decompile it any more! <3 AND bonus, cos its the actual code, we can see the comments, and ther are no decomper mistakes! ๐ฉโ๐ป๐
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
IS THIS THE FIRST TEASE OF JETPACK CAT, THE ONLY OVERWATCH HERO THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS(แดฌแตแตสณแต แถ สณแตแต แตโ แตแต หขสฐแตโหข แถฆแตแตแตสณแตแตแถฐแต แตแตแตสธ)!!?!!?!!?!!!
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
welcome to videogames everything is now free to play cos we, as an industry have accidentally devalued all our products to the point of worthlessness and we have to place all our bets on exploiting gambling addiction to break even and yes there is a subtext there help
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
Heya friends did you know that in Unity 2018.3 were going to see an overhaul of prefabs? one of the big new features is NESTED PRFABS!?!?!! YEAH FINALLY!
Do you wanna see how its going to work? well good news i found video footage <3
#Unity3D
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May ๐๐๐๐น๐ฎโ๐ซ๐ฉ
C
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added in the 'using static' statment- this lets us import static members from another type into the code were currently writing - this is super usful for making math code way more readable! This is avalible in any
@Unity3D
2018.x project using .Net 4.x runtime ๐๐
#UnityTips
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