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Save Data with BinaryWriter and BinaryReader

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posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021
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This article will explore saving and loading data to a binary format through BinaryWriter and BinaryReader. Additionally, I’ll provide tips for structuring your save data. Let’s get into

Posted in Editor Tools, UI, Unity Programming

Scene Selector Tool

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posted on August 21, 2021August 21, 2021
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In this article, we’ll build a custom editor window to streamline scene navigation in our project. Along the way, we’ll learn about custom menu items and the ScriptableSingleton class and

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Unity Editor Tools: The Place Objects Tool part 2

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posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021
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In this post, we’ll complete the Place Objects Editor Tool from the previous post. If you haven’t read that post, you can find it here. In the last post, we covered the main tool

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Unity Editor Tools: The Place Objects Tool

In this article, we’ll develop a custom editor tool to streamline placing objects in the scene. We’ll cover several helpful editor APIs, including EditorTool, PrefabUtility, Handles and

Posted in Compute Shaders, Graphics, Unity Programming

Pixelate Filter in HDRP using Compute Shaders

In this article, we’ll complete the trifecta and port our Pixelate image filter to HDRP. If you haven’t yet, I recommend reading the first post first to understand the full

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Pixelate Filter in URP using Compute Shaders

This article will use the pixelate image filter from the previous post but in URP, the Universal Render Pipeline. We’ll set up a ScriptableRendererFeature and ScriptableRenderPass to run the

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Pixelate filter: post-processing in a compute shader

In this article, we explore post-processing by writing a pixelate filter using a compute shader. How does post-processing work? At its core, Post-processing, aka image processing or image filters,

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Mesh Deformation in Unity

In this article, I explore mesh deformation using a custom vertex shader. Andy Saia’s GDC talk on mobile effects inspired this post. If you’re interested, I linked that talk at the end of

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A Simple GPU-based Drawing App in Unity

This week I’m escaping the complicated world of voxels for a bit to do something lighter. We’re building a simple GPU-based drawing app. What does that mean? A drawing app that runs

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Volumetric Heat Diffusion for Automatic Mesh Skinning

I wanted to use the GPU-based mesh voxelizer we previously wrote to implement an automatic skinning algorithm. We’ll use a heat diffusion algorithm to radiate heat through the voxels to tie