Behind the scenes I've been rebuilding smallindie.dev on Astro instead of Jekyll. Why bother rewriting it Jekyll's done fine for years, but the Ruby/Docker setup had gotten annoying to maintain, and I wanted something with a faster dev loop and less ceremony for the stuff I actually touch often: writing…
Read moreI recently cleaned up how video code snippets are stored and rendered on the site. Under the hood this change makes it easier to manage and organize video content. In doing this I also fixed some bugs/errata with the course video pages' content. Course Video Updates Some of the course…
Read moreToday on stream I started going through my old notes to convert them into blog posts that I can share out with all of you. You may see some posts dated all the way back to 2023 start to show up randomly on the site. It may be a bit…
Read moreHow to serialize properties in C# classes in Unity
Read moreCreating an animation actually requires a sprite which is kind of weird, but you can always create the sprite, add an animator, then assign the controller to the one you're editing. I figured out the requirements for this from the Unity animation editor documentation: > - A GameObject must have…
Read moreTrying to fix multiplayer cameras and joining I think the main issue why my joining isn't working is because currently I have to disable PlayerInput and OnPlayerJoined does not get called when PlayerInput components are disabled. OnPlayerJoined callback isn't being called even when my PlayerInput component is enabled, so it…
Read moreI noticed other people using AddListener to add onClick listeners for Unity UI buttons, so I tried doing the same. I also noticed that hiding/showing my multiple menu GameObjects was causing the listeners to stop functioning. What went wrong? What's the real difference between setting the listeners on the inspector…
Read moreHere's a quick overview on Unity's Input System Actions and Action Maps. The names that show under Actions, are in fact, the names of the events that should be coded: OnNavigate, OnSubmit, OnCancel, etc. The Pass Through action type tells unity not to try and resolve conflicting inputs for the…
Read moreMethod 1 - Using PlayerInputManager <iframe title="Local Multiplayer with NEW Input System - Unity Tutorial" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g_s0y5yFxYg?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" allowfullscreen="" allow="fullscreen" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> I found a nice YouTube video on implementing local coop. She talks about using a PlayerInputManager to handle multiple player inputs as…
Read moreToday I discovered the [[Tooltip("string")]](https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TooltipAttribute.html) c# attribute for fields on MonoBehaviour classes. Here's a quick example: ``cs [Tooltip("Player prefab to create at the spawn point")] [SerializeField] GameObject player; `` Will produce: unity inspector with tooltip
Read moreSet Animation Framerate in Unity I was having issues getting my animations to play at the right speed. After mucking around for about an hour or so I realized the problem I had was that I needed to set the sample rate of my animation, but the reason I couldn't…
Read morePixel art is tricky! Let's analyze the graphics from some of the best titles from the past to discover new techniques. Mega Man X3 Interestingly a lot of the tiles here use long, flat, horizontal lines. There are some windows here which expose the parallax background effect and some search…
Read morePhind.com Today I discovered phind, an AI powered search engine for engineers, by watching Meags on the Team VASH programming stream. I haven't used it much yet but it looks like it could be an interesting resource to help with software development.
Read moreI started setting up OBS on Mac OS. I discovered that the macOS Screen Capture option actually has a number of useful settings that can help us limit visibility, so it doesn't have to cast the entire screen. 1. We can choose Display Capture to grab the whole screen 2.…
Read moreColor Replace All Frames/Layer 1. Select all frames for the layer you are on by either clicking and dragging over the frames you want to replace on or just clicking the name of the layer to select all frames on that layer Selecting all frames on a layer 2. Select…
Read moreI ran into this error when trying to upload today's blog post: > You have already activated publicsuffix 3.1.1, but your Gemfile requires publicsuffix 5.0.3. Consider using bundle exec. To fix this I took the message's advice and switched to bundle exec instead of calling jekyll directly in my command:…
Read moreI decided to rethink and revisit character and tile map pixel sizing today. I took a look at this video for some insight. Octopath I also did some googling around to see what Square does on some of their titles. I couldn't find an exact size for Octopath but I…
Read moreKanban For Everyone! Today I decided to try some kind of Kanban. Options I looked at briefly: 1. Trello 2. Monday.com 3. Obsidian Kanban Plugin Trello seems to offer the most for free which is great for collaboration, while staying very focused on kanban only. Monday seems to be the…
Read moreThe first playable demo has been released. Go to the download page to check out the details!
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