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Publishing an asset on the Unity Asset Store

My goal is to make reusable components that I would reuse throughout most of my games. Sign up as a PublisherI went to the Publisher sign up page, and filled out the required info. As usual, I used the tools at http://blog.wafrat.

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Simulating touch events in Play mode in Unity

This should have been easy, but it really wasn't. I wish the information was more prominently displayed in the Unity docs and tutorials. How to do itGo to Window, Windows, Input Debug.In the Options dropdown, check Simulate Touch Input From Mouse or Pen.

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Publishing a game made in Unity to the Play Store

There is a tutorial on how to publish a game made in Unity to the Play Store on Unity Learn. Here's how it went. Publishing for Android - Unity LearnUnity includes a built-in publishing feature that allows you to publish to various popular platforms

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Making the UI resolution dependent in Unity

The UI on my phone was tiny compared to when I ran it on my computer. Also even though I haven't tried on other devices, I figured results might differ widely depending on their resolutions. It's actually possible to make resolution independent UI. As

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Migrating TMPro to Unity's new Input System

After installing Unity's new EventSystem, my UI broke. It turns out I had to click the "Replace with InputSystemUIInputModule" in each scene's EventSystem. EventSystem using the older input systemBut I realized that only after deleting the EventSystems. The new Input System comes with samplesEventSystem

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Fixing adb server version (41) doesn't match this client (40); in Unity

Earlier Unity suddenly started to refuse building and running on my Android phone. The error message was this: * failed to start daemon error: cannot connect to daemon UnityEditor.Android.CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to list connected devices. /Applications/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.4.18f1/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/

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Unit Testing in Unity

I am developing a mobile game in Unity, and it was getting really hard to test it manually. So here's how I introduced unit tests to speed up development. Developing for Desktop vs MobileOn desktop, you can get away without unit tests because of

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Version Control in Unity

There are several ways to do version control in Unity. What works for me is the regular git command line. Here's my workflow. Available optionsThere is a full "mission" on Unity Learn on how to do it. Version Control and Optimization - Unity LearnWelcome

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Architecture of an FPS in Unity

The FPS Microgame is a FPS template for learning Unity. In this post, I'll explore the project to understand how things are made. This will help me make my own games later. This is a work in progress. FPS Microgame - Unity LearnThe FPS

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Shaders in Unity

Shaders let you create cool effects like dissolve, energy shields. There are a few ways to use them: Use an asset pack. For example I have used this asset in one of my project for its great looking energy shield.Make one with Shader

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Adding a table of contents to a Ghost blog

I recently needed to add a table of contents to my blog post to make it more browsable. To my surprise, there was no built-in way to do it in Ghost, and the solutions on the internet range from terrible to nice and clean.

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Unity Cheat Sheet

I started learning Unity for fun, and I've decided to keep useful snippets here for future reference. Free AssetsCreate with code series: low-poly vehicles, animals, foods, props, sky dome, fonts... After importing, you'll have to update Package Manager to avoid some compilation error.Standard

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Fixing `error: cannot find symbol Build.VERSION_CODES.Q`

I am using permissionhandler on a Flutter project, and this just happened. permission_handler-4.4.0+hotfix.4/android/src/main/java/com/baseflow/permissionhandler/PermissionManager.java:315: error: cannot find symbol if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.Q) { ^ symbol: variable

Fixing `Could not resolve dependency: npm ERR! peerOptional typescript@"^3.2.1" from react-scripts@4.0.1`

I tried running npm i on a fresh git clone, and ran into this error. % npm i npm ERR! code ERESOLVE npm ERR! ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree npm ERR! npm ERR! Found: typescript@4.1.3 npm ERR! node_modules/typescript npm

Installing Node.js on an M1

After installing Flutter, I installed Node.js. It turns out there isn't a build of version 14.5.3 (LTS) for M1 yet. But they say that there is a build of version 15, which you can install via nvm. Installing NVM: https://github.

Setting up Flutter on an M1

I just got a new Mac Mini with M1 CPUs. The first thing I did was install Chrome. The next thing I did was install Flutter. Installing FlutterSo I went to flutter.dev and downloaded the latest build. I extracted it, then created a

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Setting up Prettier in Visual Studio Code

Here's how to set up Prettier to reformat your files on save. First install the plugin by clicking the link at https://github.com/prettier/prettier-vscode. If VSC is installed, it'll handle the link and open the plugin page in VSC. Once installed, open

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My ideal web development set up (updated Dec 2020)

Back in 2018, I wrote a post about my web development set up and how I planned to go from a local dev environment to a cloud one. In the end it didn't happen. Two years have since passed, and I've revisited my views

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Fixing keyboard-related crashes in Flutter

I've been using a bluetooth keyboard with my Flutter app. And in some cases, I experienced repeated crashes. Some of the errors were: E/InputEventSender( 4319): Exception dispatching finished signal. E/MessageQueue-JNI( 4319): Exception in MessageQueue callback: handleReceiveCallback E/MessageQueue-JNI( 4319): java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException:

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How to hide the keyboard on scroll in Flutter

I've recently had to hide the keyboard on scroll in my app. Once the user has finished typing, they typically scroll down. By hiding the keyboard, they gain a lot of real estate. First try: ScrollControllerMy view uses a SingleChildScrollView to show scrollable content.

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Fixing `Error: Authentication failed.` on a previously perfectly running MongoDB server

Today after an update to Linux and a reboot, I became unable to authenticate on my MongoDB server. If you don't care about the details you can skip and read the TLDR below. It went like this: # mongo MongoDB shell version v3.6.21

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Useful Flutter posts

Here's a few collections of links to posts that have helped me. Scroll a widget into viewIn my case, I had a bunch of disparate widgets rendered in a ListView, so I couldn't predict where the widget I wanted to scroll to was. ListView's

Why was my Linux VM's disk always full?

Some of my VMs had been getting less and less space disk, and I thought it was because of the log files. Even after deleting them, I'd end up recovering less and less space. So I tried finding the largest files. A quick search

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Flutter introduced new buttons

Flutter 1.22 is out and introduces many things, but in this post, I'll only mention the buttons: The old FlatButton has been replaced by TextButton.The old RaisedButton has been replaced by ElevatedButton.The old OutlineButton has been replaced by OutlinedButton.Note that

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Fixing `No profiles for my_app were found: Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching my_app.`

After finally managing to compile my Flutter app again in iOS, now it's the publishing process that fails: error: No profiles for [my_app] were found: Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching [my_app]. Automatic signing is disabled and unable