Using Blender, Mixamo Fuse and Substance Painter for 3D Models

The 3D tools available today offer some interesting features and conveniences as compared to what was available even a few years ago. Could your 3D workflow benefit from using one of these tools?

Unity UI - Dynamic Buttons and Scroll View

When building a UI, it's sometimes helpful to be able to dynamically create buttons depending on a number of objects. Unity's UI is easy to work with, but can be tricky to use if you're trying to build it dynamically. In this tutorial, we'll create buttons for a list of names and add them to a scrollable window so that we can accommodate any number of buttons.

Using Unity's Event Message System (Unity 4.6)

It's been a while since my last post, but typing away in my Info Tech class today really got me in the mood for a blog post. I'm happy to be back, so let's get started!


Unity recently updated it's messaging system...







It used to be as easy as:

target.SendMessage(string methodName);

Now it looks like this:

ExecuteEvents.Execute(GameObject target, BaseEventData eventData, EventFunction functor);

Lets look at how to utilize the new approach...