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Basic Explosion Particle Effects In Unity

July 25, 2018 Thomas Hyman Tutorials, Unity

Recently, I made some pretty cool basic explosion effects in Unity using mostly their built-in particle systems. I was going after a cool top-down 2D explosion effect, and it came out pretty nicely: After a

Unity and MySQL, Part 4: Security and Best Practices

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman MySQL, Tutorials, Unity

After I posted parts 1-3 on reddit, I got chided for poor security implementation and using out of date code. I’m going to share what I learned about PHP best practices as well as make

Unity And MySQL, Part 3: Loggin In

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman MySQL, Tutorials, Unity

Last time, we set up everything we needed to add a new user account to our database. This time, we’ll set up everything we need to let a user log in to our game. Compared

Unity and MySQL, Part 2: Adding A User

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman MySQL, Tutorials, Unity

All right! Now that we have set up a web server and a MySQL server using XAMPP, we’re ready to get down and dirty with some real coding. From here on out, nothing we do

Unity and MySql, Part 1: The Setup

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman MySQL, Tutorials, Unity

This blog post comes about as a direct result of my recent struggle with connecting Unity to a MySql database. There’s very few posts on the internet that take you through the ENTIRETY of the

Unity Inspector Window and User-Created Classes and Structs

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman Inspector Window, Tutorials, Unity

The Unity Inspector window is your viewpoint as a developer into everything you select in Unity. Want to change how physics works in your game? The menu access is Edit > Project Settings > Physics

Unity 2D Sprite Trail

May 1, 2018 Thomas Hyman Tutorials, Unity

While creating my platformer/brawler prototype, I decided I wanted to include a dash move, where the character puts on a burst of speed. To show the speed, I decided on going with a sprite trail

Bounded Multiple Target Camera in Unity

April 30, 2018 Thomas Hyman Camera, Tutorials, Unity

While in the process of designing a platformer/brawler prototype, I needed a camera that would pan and zoom to keep multiple characters in view, a la Super Smash Bros. A lot of this code comes