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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 21, 2021

AR in Unity with Vuforia

Objective: Install Vuforia in Unity. It’s easy to add AR (augmented reality) to our Unity projects! We’ll begin by downloading the Vuforia Engine Unity package and dropping it into our project (https://developer.vuforia.com/downloads/sdk).

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AR in Unity with Vuforia
AR in Unity with Vuforia
Made With Unity

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 17, 2021

Coroutines in Unity

Objective: Change object’s color randomly every every two seconds. A coroutine will allow us to execute a process while other processes are being run. Coroutines are also useful when we want to delay a process. …

Made With Unity

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Coroutines in Unity
Coroutines in Unity
Made With Unity

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 16, 2021

Scriptable Objects in Unity

Objective: Use scriptable objects to fill-out a game object template. We’ve been tasked with creating an interactive for visitors to a zoo. When the user clicks on an area of the map, we reveal a card with animals and facts that apply to that area. Imagine if we had 50…

Made With Unity

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Scriptable Objects in Unity
Scriptable Objects in Unity
Made With Unity

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Published in AWS in Plain English

·Sep 12, 2021

How to Save a Binary File to AWS

Saving a binary file to Amazon Web Services for later retrieval (Part 2) — Continuing from our previous article (https://lordkakabel.medium.com/saving-a-file-to-aws-26adf62e79ef), we’ll now load the file we saved to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll do this by calling our GetObjectList method. This method takes-in the user-inputted case number and an Action that will trigger (if supplied). We’ll take the user’s case number and validate it…

Made With Unity

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How to Save a Binary File to AWS
How to Save a Binary File to AWS
Made With Unity

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Published in AWS in Plain English

·Sep 11, 2021

How to Save a Binary File to AWS

Saving a binary file to Amazon Web Services for later retrieval (Part 1) — To use Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’ll need to prepare a few things: Our region, credentials, and client. We’ll use the following variable to hold these items:

Indie Game Dev

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How to Save a Binary File to AWS
How to Save a Binary File to AWS
Indie Game Dev

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 9, 2021

Saving an Object in Unity

Objective: Save a object to the user’s system for later use. The object we’d like to save is a case file. It is made up of a few strings and a photo converted into an array of bytes. (See https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/encoding-decoding-a-picture-in-unity-82af70b36853 to learn how to convert a photo to bytes.)

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Saving an Object in Unity
Saving an Object in Unity
Made With Unity

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 9, 2021

Integrating Google Maps API with Unity

Objective: Get a picture of a map of the user’s location. To display a map, we first have to get the user’s location from their device. We’ll need to use an IEnumerator method to do so; I’ll use the Start method in this case. First we’ll make sure the user…

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Integrating Google Maps API with Unity
Integrating Google Maps API with Unity
Made With Unity

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 7, 2021

Encoding/Decoding a Picture in Unity

Objective: Break a picture into an array of bytes and reassemble it. In yesterday’s article (https://lordkakabel.medium.com/taking-a-photo-in-unity-e6e3f5328da6), we allowed the user to take a picture with their device and we stored the path to the photo within the device. …

Made With Unity

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Encoding/Decoding a Picture in Unity
Encoding/Decoding a Picture in Unity
Made With Unity

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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 6, 2021

Taking a Photo in Unity

Objective: Allow the user to take a photo on their device to use in our program. One of the great things about Unity is we don’t have to “reinvent the wheel.” There are a lot of great — even free — assets we can import and use in our projects.

Made With Unity

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Taking a Photo in Unity
Taking a Photo in Unity
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Published in Nerd For Tech

·Sep 5, 2021

UI Button Navigation without Code

Objective: Activate and deactivate UI elements without code. Our Button components have an On Click () property. We can use this property to enable and disable other objects during runtime. We can simply click the + icon to add as many fields as we need.

Made With Unity

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UI Button Navigation without Code
UI Button Navigation without Code
Made With Unity

2 min read

UI Button Navigation without Code

Objective: Activate and deactivate UI elements without code.

Our Button components have an On Click () property. We can use this property to enable and disable other objects during runtime.

We can simply click the + icon to add as many fields as we need.

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Ryan Sweigart

Ryan Sweigart

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