EventHandling for Unity 4.6 UI Event system

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Unity 4.6 comes with new UI system which has different way of handling different event like mouse over, mouse out, mouse in, click etc.

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Integrate Android Volley with Unity3d game

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Volley is a very robust framework to make network calls. It provides out of the box support for caching, retry etc. In this post I will show how to integrate Volley with in a unity game.

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Helper for FileOperations on Windows Phone and Windows 8 in Unity3d

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Unity3d is supporting both Windows Phone and Windows 8-8.1. However there are some points which needs to be taken care of when porting our games to Windows Phone and Windows 8-8.1. One such point is support of File operations.

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Dynamic Grid Layout in Unity3d 4.6 UI-Part2

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This post is part 2 of this post. In this post I will share code to populate grid layout with the data which is downloaded using a web service.

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Dynamic Grid Layout in Unity3d 4.6 UI

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Often in our games we need scrollable lists to show scores, inventory items, in-app purchase UI etc. In this post I will show how to make a dynamic scrollable list to achieve earlier mentioned UI screens.

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Animate or Focus camera on a game object in Unity3d

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Sometime in games we need to focus camera on an object for sometime and return to normal position. This is often called Camera Fly-By effect.. In this post, I will show how to achieve this effect in Unity3d.

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Menu using Unity3d 4.6 UI system

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For any game, the entry point is its Menu. In this post I will share how to create a menu system which can be extended to implement generic menus to be used in almost all scenarios like (game pause, game finished etc.)

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Loading screen in Unity3d

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While creating games using Unity3d, often we need to show Loading screen in case of long running operations. In this post, I will show how to create a loading screen in Unity3d.

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Frame rate calculator for scenes in Unity3d

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In our games, we often want to keep watch on the frame rate on which our game is being rendered on the device. In this post I will share a simple script to calculate and show frames on the screen for debugging.

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Objects Pool Manager in Unity3d

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Sometimes in our games we require game objects of same type to be instantiated constantly like bullets from a gun or coins on the map. This generation of game objects incur huge amount of overhead on CPU. Here we can use the technique of pooling the objects and make the objects enable/ disable from this pool.

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WWW web request manager in Unity3d -Part 2

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This post is continuation of this. Many times, in our games we have logic which continuously interact with back-end logic (can be in php, java or C#). In order to minimize number of requests which client makes to server, we can send web request in batches. In this post I will explain how to implement a Request Manager to manage web request in batches.

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WWW web request manager in Unity3d -Part 1

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In this series I will explain how to create a simple web request manager using WWW class provided by Unity3d. This manager can be used as common component for making all web requests in one place.

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Admob Android Plugin for Unity3d

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Sometimes it is good to earn some money even by publishing free games and applications. This is where advertisements come handy. In this post I will explain how to create a unity3d plug-in to show ads using Google's Admob.

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Android Plug-in for Unity3d - Part 2

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Sometimes we want to extend the default behavior of Activity which come with Unity3d. In this post I will explain how to extend UnityPlayerActivity. This post is continuation of this.If you did not see the post please go through it I will be here :).

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Android Plug-in for Unity3d - Part 1

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In this two parts post I will explain how to create an android plugin to access native APIs of android or to call 3rd party libraries like ads integration. Basic information on how to create android plug-in can be found here.

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Export png images of multiple dimensions using inkscape command line on Windows

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Many times for our applications we need *.png of different dimensions. Using Inkscape, we can export png of desired dimension. But this is a tedious and repetitive task. In this post, I will tell how to use InkScape command line options to automate this process.

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Simple Timer in Unity3d

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In our project we often need to run some function multiple time at a regular time interval. Unity does not come with any timer functionality. In this post I will explain how to make a simple timer.

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Creating simple event manager in Unity3d

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In this post, I am going to explain how to create a simple game event manager in Unity3d.
For this post you need basic idea of Events and Delegates in C#. You can refer to this tutorial to have an idea of events and delegates in C#.

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