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September 19, 2009

SPEEDLAP RED

Announcing Speedlap RED, a highly focused, futuristic single-player racing game developed by BLACKISH – Coming to iPhone and iPod Touch this November!
Thread on the Unity Forums
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September 16, 2009

Unity: Changing shader color properties

If you want to change a color-value in a material’s shader you can use Material.SetColor(“_PropertyName”, Color.white); If you don’t know what that color value is called in the shader, get the the source of all the shaders in Unity here and have a look inside. This page in the docs might help as well…
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August 31, 2009

BATTLE BEARS

BATTLE BEARS is an iPhone game developed by BLACKISH for (and in colaboration with) SkyVu Pictures. It’s been released on the AppStore today! Get it here!
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August 30, 2009

Age of Curling: Scotland – Behind the scenes

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August 28, 2009

Unity: Rotated GUI-Text

The way to rotate gui-elements isn’t exactly straight-forward in unity… But after some hassle I manged to rotate a piece of text: 


function OnGUI () {
   var pos : Vector3 = new Vector3(100, 200, 0); //position for matrix
   var quat : Quaternion = Quaternion.identity; //rotation for matrix
   quat.eulerAngles = Vector3(0, 0, 90); //set the rotation to something - rotate around z!
   GUI.matrix = Matrix4x4.TRS(pos, quat, Vector3.one); //Apply the matrix 
   GUI.Label(Rect(0, 0, 200, 20), "Some Text"); //notice how the rect starts at 0/0 and the matrix handles the position!
}

This is still not ideal since the text will be a bit blurry, but it’s better than nothing…
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August 28, 2009

Age of Curling: Venice – Behind the scenes

Modeling, baking, paintover – all done in modo 401
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August 25, 2009

Age of Curling 1.3

A sneak-peak at the new venue that will be in version 1.3 of Age of Curling (a free update, currently in review by Apple)

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August 19, 2009

How to put a variable into a variable name: eval();


var id : int = 1;
var item1 : String = "ho";
var item2 : String = "hum";

print(eval("item" + id));
This can of course be used for a lot more than just variables…
I’m guessing that this won’t work on the iPhone due to the ahead of time compiling, but I haven’t actually tried…
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August 14, 2009

Individual track heights in Logic

I though this wasn’t possible and almost gave up on Logic over this. I couldn’t find anything about it – neither in the manual nor in the settings, but now I stumbled upon it in some Youtube video… What a pleasant surprise!

This is how it’s done: click and drag the bottom-left corner of the track-title. Simple, I know – I tried dragging the bottom of that area about 50 times with all imaginable key-combinations pressed at the same time… well… now I know…
The technical term seems to be “Individual track zoom” and the cool thing is that if you now change the track heights globally through the little slider on the bottom-right of the window, it all scales relatively – and up/down to a certain max/min
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August 14, 2009

Sonar to Logic

I spent half of yesterday going through old music-files, trying to see if there’s a way to somehow bring the few good things over to the Mac and into Logicsomehow.
Some web-searches taught me that there’s no way to open my old .bun or .cwb files from Sonar 1/Calkewalk Pro Audio in Logic, so I started by bouncing tracks to individual files, but that’s not a good solution because even if a track only contains a short sample it will still result in a full-length and mostly empty wav-file… Furthermore all effects get baked in and all virtual instrument settings and midi information is lost.
And then I noticed the Export OMF item on the menu… Turns out OMF (Open Media Framework) is a decent solution. It packs all audio (no midi) into a single file leaving all clips intact and it imports flawlessly into Logic (or, well. it loses most settings, ignores muted and archived tracks, etc. – but still, all clips are there… luckily I never got into mixing much…)
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