I was recently working on a mobile Unity project at home and I wanted to take advantage of Android’s immersive mode, which allows you to hide elements of the OS chrome such as the navigation bar or the status (top) bar. Unity itself has a Screen.fullScreen property that tries to control the appearance of the […]
Continue reading →In January 2009, I was at Campus Party Brasil. This was the second edition of this big LAN party in the country, and as was the norm with the event, they hosted a number of presentations, many of them geared towards developers. One of the several presentations I watched was by Microsoft. They were basically […]
Continue reading →I may like charts too much. A while ago, I created a chart depicting all the programming platforms I’ve had used over the years: This was initially created mostly to illustrate the fact that the fall in popularity of Flash and ActionScript wasn’t a surprising event – technologies constantly come and go – but when […]
Continue reading →Computing has come a long way in the past few decades. Originally, programmers used to write code by themselves, using punch cards, and only later be allowed to run them on machines. The end result was a process of writing code and debugging as completely separated steps. I never used punch cards (I’m not that […]
Continue reading →A week or so ago, I started toying with the idea of creating a tweening solution for Unity. Trying experimental tweening solutions are the kind of thing I find myself always spending time with: in the work I usually do, tweening is something I constantly have to deal with, and I strive to find the […]
Continue reading →I have just published release 1.3 of usfxr on its GitHub repository. This is a small update, but it provides some important fixes (especially when publishing on mobile platforms) and adds the option to export your audio as WAV files (similarly to other SFXR ports). I have to thank Michael Bailey and Owen Roberts for […]
Continue reading →Every Thursday morning at Firstborn is “Scrummy Thursday”. For one hour, Firstborn developers present random topics to each other. Those are usually little, 15-minute presentations on projects we’ve worked or things we discovered, and it is meant as a way to share knowledge among the development team. It’s a nice idea, and it has been […]
Continue reading →In preparation for the next Ludum Dare, I have finished adding all advanced sound synthesis features first introduced by BFXR to usfxr, my own Unity port of the SFXR game audio synthesis engine. The new version is 1.2 and is available as a zip download on the GitHub usfxr repository (the asset store version will be updated […]
Continue reading →Now that usfxr has an in-editor window for audio generation right inside Unity, I’m considering it stable. I’ll probably do a few benchmarks in the future to improve any performance bottlenecks I’m able to identity, and maybe add a few more examples to the repository, but for all intents and purposes it is production-ready. Given […]
Continue reading →It’s been a little more than one year since I introduced usfxr, a Unity/C# version of the well-known real-time procedural game audio generator sfxr. What it has been lacking for quite some time was the ability to generate sound effects right inside the Unity interface; developers were forced to visit an online source like as3sfxr […]
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