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I’ve been messing in Unity3d building a survival racing adventure game and spent some time the other day messing with particle system. Eventually I want it to look like this but, also keep the Cost on the CPU down. This is a super early attempt.

While researching how to implement a dialogue system (vomit emoji) in Unity3D I randomly ended up finding this awesome blog post about Billboard orientation for 2D spites using 3d cameras in perspective mode. This shows some of the quick experiments I whipped up after implementing his ideas. Pretty elegant solution for an annoying problem.

<code>

// BillboardSprite.cs
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class BillboardSprite: MonoBehaviour {

	public Transform MyCameraTransform;
	private Transform MyTransform;
	public bool alignNotLook = true;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		MyTransform = this.transform;
		MyCameraTransform = Camera.main.transform;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void LateUpdate () {
		if (alignNotLook)
			MyTransform.forward = MyCameraTransform.forward;
		else
			MyTransform.LookAt (MyCameraTransform, Vector3.up);
	}
}

</code>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What have I been up to you ask???

Well, besides working on my own projects I took part in the Ludum Dare Game Jam. Basically we locked ourselves in a room and made game in 72 hours. This year I joined up with @kalaena, check out her blog HERE! The theme to this years Jam was “A Small World”. Our concept was simple, you play a Parasite who is resting comfortably inside a slice of pork sushi (yes that kind of parasite & yes I said pork), at a roadside gas station. 

Your new ‘HOST’ Gary decides your sushi home is a delicious roadside snack. From there on out you’re mission was to race the clock and do as much damage as possible then escape… out the… you know*.  Time as all game-jams is a cruel mistress so, we were only able to get some basic game functionality working along with some pretty cool levels and some great art that @kalaena made that brought the whole thing together.

You can also checkout the GITHUB link for the source files of our game. We had a ton of fun making it and everybody learned great deal. Thanks for visiting!

[here’s some pics from the game, development process and concepts.]

 

Where I’ll be for the next couple days: