Category Archives: Unity
How To Decode Unity Crashes On Android
Crashes… of course they’re not our fault !! our code is always the best. It’s someone else’s code that’s bad !! we’re a rare breed of elite ninja developers… Using crash reporting services helps us get informed about these (services such as: Crashlytics, … Continue reading
What’s New in Automated Testing with Unity (Unity 5.3)
Automated testing is one subject I’m deeply interested in (although probably not doing enough of). I’ve already blogged about Unity Test Tools in the past, right around the time the first version was released. Since some time has passed, I … Continue reading
A Workaround for WWW yield bug on iOS
Quick Update This issue is resolved in Unity 5.1.3 patch 2 (download here). This post only deals with the scenario where you cannot upgrade to a newer version (due to various project constraints). This post presents a simple workaround for overcoming a … Continue reading
Removing Empty Folders in Unity
This post shares a small (but useful) recipe for getting rid of empty folders in Unity. This annoying thing usually happens when you switch between different git branches, since different branches may add/remove folders. Git doesn’t like to deal with empty … Continue reading
Unity Editor Extensions – Extending Unity’s Default Inspectors
Unity allows creating custom inspectors for your own custom types, as well as its built-in types easily. But if you’re after extending unity’s built-in inspectors you’re mostly out of luck – there’s no simple API for that (Unity’s inspectors are not publicly exposed). … Continue reading
Developing with Unity and WebGL
This week I gave a joint talk (with @DePanther) at the Israeli Unity Developers Meetup on Unity and WebGL. The talk focused on the development process of the game we’re working on – Wonderball Heroes, challenges we faced along the … Continue reading
Israeli Unity Developers Meetup (Feb 2015)
Today marked the end of an almost 1 year period in which the Israeli Unity developers community didn’t have a proper meetup. This post summarizes what we had in the event for those who missed it (Hint: Unity, beer & pizzas). A special … Continue reading
Auto Save in Unity
What can you do when a team member suffers a recurring Unity editor crash, losing all their precious level design work ? My answer was to write a small and helpful editor extension – auto save ! (and then blog about … Continue reading
Please Encapsulate Your Fields
The inspector is Unity’s one stop shop for fiddling with game objects’ values and is one of the used windows of the Unity editor. The default inspector picks up the properties to display using a set of simple rules (read here). While the inspector … Continue reading
Finding Missing References in Unity
This post shows a short and simple solution for finding missing references in Unity. You can get the code from GitHub. Missing References A missing reference is different from having no reference at all (in which case the inspector shows “None”). These can occur … Continue reading