Makeblock is a company that creates easy-to-use robots. Two of their most popular products are the mBot and the mBot Ranger. Both of these kits are easy to assemble within roughly 2 hours of time. Once they are assembled, they have several pre-installed programs that you can run on them. However, most people who purchase these kits want to be … Read More
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IBM SPSS Statistics is something Studica sells a lot of. Students, Faculty, and academic institutions heavily use the software for all sorts of classes; Statistics, Psychology, Sociology, and many other subjects. Most support requests I receive are for installation issues with SPSS Statistics. In this post, I will outline every step of the installation procedure so you can easily resolve your installation … Read More
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Unity 3D has some great tools for handling animations. In general, developers will utilize animation controllers (Unity calls them animator controllers) to handle which animations to play and when to play them. In this Unity tutorial blog, I’m going to provide step-by-step instructions to create a very simple animation controller. This controller will be able to play an animation when … Read More
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It’s no secret that fischertechnik offers a wide variety of robotic solutions for students and educators. From elementary school to higher education, fischertechnik has a versatile selection of kits that are highly customizable to suit whatever your needs may be. At the center of FT’s robotics systems is the Robo Pro software. In this post, I will talk about Robo … Read More
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I’ve written a lot of Unity 3D blog posts. Yet, I have not yet written one about one of the fundamentals of object-oriented programming; classes. Today, I will remedy this problem with a quick introduction to classes in Unity. Let’s get started. What is a Class? Cars are often used as a metaphor to explain what a class is. In … Read More
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In my last blog post, I talked about the absolute basics of GameSalad. I covered the UI and how to create an actor and make that actor move in your scene. As promised, I want to continue with some more tutorial posts to help you get on your way to developing your ideas. In this post, I’m going to continue … Read More
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Unity 3D offers an enormous API that provides ways to manipulate the vast majority of objects in your game. However, there are some features that are not as robust as you might hope. Take, for example, the ParticleSystem class. Let’s say, you have a particle system. You want to modify the radius of the particle system’s shape using a script. After a quick … Read More
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I am working on a Unity Project in my free time. Recently, I wanted to have the ability to dynamically change the material properties of objects when the player looked at them. I did not want a static, unchanging material. I needed to be able to use C# scripts to make the material change features during gameplay. This is relatively easy to do. However, Unity’s … Read More
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Recently, I created a custom input manager for a game I’m making in Unity 3D. Initial research suggested I use Unity’s built-in Input Manager. However, Unity doesn’t have an API to access most of the Input Manager functionality. However, I wanted a menu in my game where the user could set their own key bindings; a common feature in most PC games. Unity’s Input … Read More
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If you are reading this article, chances are you already know that ZBrush is a powerful digital sculpting and painting program. You’ve heard about how it revolutionized the 3D industry. You know that it is used in the creation of many award-winning video games and films, such as Bioshock Infinite and Avatar. You’re probably just as excited as we are … Read More
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