Raycasting is a common concept utilized in almost every single game you have ever played. Simply put, Raycasts are invisible lines drawn from one point to another, checking for collisions. This is used for point-and-click mechanics, shooting, movement, and other gameplay elements! A frequently utilized raycast is a simple one…

Changing from the old system to the new system proved to be a very challenging experience, primarily due to the difficult nature of finding information on this system. As the New Input System (NIS) is not standard, there is not nearly as much documentation nor resources to reference.

Now that we have looked at the outline of the system, it’s time to break down each section of gameplay into the new system. In this example, the play can walk forward or backwards with “W” and “S” and rotate with “A” and “D”.

Unity is transitioning into new input system that utilizes a built in GUI for much of the action mapping as opposed to the legacy process of manually mapping in C#. While this system will eventually become default setting and will ship with Unity, for now it must be downloaded from…

In-game, scripts are going to be the primary method of triggering camera swaps. Let’s look at how to use C# to interact with Cinemachine! First off, we need to add a new library to the C# script. Now we need to get references to our…

With Cinemachine installed, let’s take a look at the camera system. Unity by default has the “Main Camera” Gameobject in every scene. You must have a main camera to use Cinemachine. More specifically, your main camera needs a new component called the Cineamachine Brain. Why do…

Cinemachine and Timeline are the two primary tools utilized for controlling camera movement and pre-determined cuts between them. In a nutshell Cinemachine is the cinematographer toolkit; It lets you set up the cameras to get the shots you need by providing a toolkit that can track several…

I recently finished a simple office environment in Unity for a project, and wanted to share my thoughts on the process of working in Unity to design levels. Whilst I originally did not enjoy the system(s) for Unity, a deeper understanding of them has led to substantially faster development time…