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Gapless looping MP3 music in Unity 3D

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Recently I have been struggling with my background music. As it appears MP3 music does not loop very well. Natively MP3 sounds have a little space at the start and end of the track. I thought that...

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Game music

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

There we go: a new fresh set of game music ready to get integrated into my forthcoming game. Which actually means that I am neeeeeearly done. :-) Enjoy: Meet the masters - game music...

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Book review: Unity 3.x Game Development by example

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:01:00 +0000

It took a while but now I have finished reading the book Unity 3.x Game Development by example - beginners guide written bij Ryan Henson Creighton. The subtitle says: A seat-of-your-pants manual...

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Unity books

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:31:00 +0000

I am currently reading two books on Unity game development: * Unity 3 Game development hotshot * Unity 3.x Game development by Example Beginners Guide Visit these links for more...

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Unity Remote is slow and choppy

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:21:00 +0000

Today I was testing my iPhone game using Unity Remote and it was choppy and slow. Some people suggest that you turn off the Show Image feature on Unity Remote which disables the graphics output on...

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Unknown identifier after upgrading Unity

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:43:00 +0000

After I upgraded Unity today I received all kinds of compiler errors containing the message Unknown Identifier. At first it seemed that this is caused by the fact that my project for the iPhone...

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Finally made it into the second chapter of Meet the Masters

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:05:00 +0000

The iOS game I am currently working on is all about the great and famous painting masters from long ago. Of course, the main objective is still to roll your ball to the finish but it doesn't mean you...

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How to maintain game state between levels

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:55:00 +0000

Typically, in most games there is a kind of game engine object that keeps track of the main status of the game like the amount of lives there are left, the level you are playing, orchestrating the...

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Scaling meshes with colliders attached kills performance

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:32:00 +0000

I was working on level nr 13 where I tried to scale a group of meshes using the iTween library. Well, this was looking great in the editor but when deployed to my iPod or iPhone performance was...

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Zoolook in the mix

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:24:00 +0000

Short track which I am working on for fun. In 1984 Jean Michel Jarre released Zoolook. On the Atari ST the track was redone by Jochen Hippel, so time to make my own version using the newest...

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Funny parody to First Person Shooters

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:22:00 +0000

When I was looking for a tool to easy the task of animating character and faces I stumbled upon a company called Anzovin.com They have nice tools for that and most of all show what you can do by...

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Unity game dev: Naming conventions

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:55:00 +0000

Every developer knows that particular stage in which he decides to completely refactor class names, variables, add inline comments and move script to other objects where they belong. During one of...

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Unity GUI is too small on iPhone 4

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:33:00 +0000

Maybe you recognize the following: you were happily working on your iPhone game using an older iPhone or iPod device. Now, on a bright sunny day you decide to swap your old device for the brand new...

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Using iTween for complex animations and camera movement

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Animation can become quite complex if you take into account that multiple types of transformations may happen in a certain timed sequence and with certain pre- and postprocessing. Life has...

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Meet the Masters iPhone game

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:53:00 +0000

Today I realized that I have been ignoring this blog for a while which is basically a shame as a lot of things are happening right now. To start with I am working on an iPhone game called Meet the...

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Unity 3D version 3

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:03:00 +0000

Recently, Unity released version 3 of their game development environment. I have upgraded my license and was very excited to see if my upgraded game was running smoothly. Of course, you now have...

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First sculpting result

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0000

It has been a while since I blogged about game development, and currently modeling and sculpting in particular. That does not mean we have been sitting idle. It has been an interesting time. First...

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Preparing for detailing: hard edges

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:07:00 +0000

I was a little bit surprised by the fact that my mesh looked quite like Hobbiton when I choose to smooth it a bit. Although I liked the round window, it was not my original intent. So I had to make...

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First UV Layouts ready

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:47:00 +0000

My last post showed you my first modeling result. Today I finished laying out the UVs. The UV layouts are necessary before I can start detailing and texturing, otherwise my modeling tool wouldn't...

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My first modeling result

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Today I have finished modeling the first house called 'Hans & Grietje" for my forthcoming game. It needs a number of small fixes before I can start laying out the UV's, create the...

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Unity 3D

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:18:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I decided to switch from 3D GameStudio to Unity 3D as the platform for game development. If you would just browse to http://www.unity3d.com you would instantly know why. ...

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Modding: Battle For Middle Earth II

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:02:00 +0000

Technorati Tags: Game development,Maya,Modding,Modeling Like I said earlier, I am a newbie to modeling. So I have started working through some great tutorials. However, the question I am always...

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Surface types and components in Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Surface types There are lots of ways you can work with surfaces with Maya. The following are primitives: NURBS, Polygon, Sub-Division and Volumes. Meaning you can create a NURBS sphere for...

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Decision #2: Which 3D Design tool?

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:22:00 +0000

Second decision - the Modeling tool - MAYA from AutoDesk When I ask someone which tool to use for modeling, 9 out of 10 tell me to use AutoDesk 3DS Max. It seems to be the industry standard for...

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Decision #1: Game Concept - River Crossing

noreply@blogger.com (Servé Hermans) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:15:00 +0000

Today I was wondering where I would start. Doing some game development on your own means that you need to master many tools. And I need a game concept. To make this not too difficult in the beginning...

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