Pickle Rick in Augmented Reality

by Devon O.· May 09, 2018· in Shaders, Unity3D· 2 comments tags: arcore, augmented reality, Unity3D
Here’s just a quick little personal project I was playing around with. I’ve seen a bajillion portal projects for augmented reality (possibly the best being this Aha demo), but I wanted to add my own little Rick and Morty twist to one. The portal uses ARCore motion tracking to open or close according to the user’s proximity. Some models used: Pickle Rick Mr. Meeseeks Portal Gun Incidentally, ARCore 1.2 has just been released. Looks like some cool new features to start digging into.
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Environment Mapping with ARCore and Unity3D

by Devon O.· May 05, 2018· in Shaders, Unity3D· 3 comments tags: arcore, augmented reality, c#, Unity3D
So here’s a little trick for mapping a device camera image onto a 3D model when using Unity3D and Google’s ARCore in order to create some realistic environment reflections and further blend augmented reality with plain old reality. I originally got the idea from this Unity blog post. Before digging into John Sietsma’s solution, though, I implemented my own and figured there were big enough differences to warrant describing my own approach. Before jumping into some code, here’s a little look at the effect in action. You can see how the floating torus reflects both the color of the candle as well as my hand waving around it. In this video, the reflection amount is set to .85 and the blur amount to 7 (those properties will be made clear later): Overview From a high perspective, the effect is achieved by taking the camera image, blurring it, then mapping it onto a 3d model using radial coordinates based on the world normals. Is the effect perfect? Not at all. Really the entire thing is faked. First, because we’re using the camera as an environment map, it’s entirely possible to see an item behind the 3d model reflected in front of it. Also, […]
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Unity3D Endless Runner Part II – Scrolling Worlds

by Devon O.· January 02, 2017· in Games, Unity3D· 6 comments tags: Unity3D
Happy New Year, all! And here it is, my first blog post of 2017. Unfortunately, if last year’s track record is any indication, this may also be my last blog post of the year. I’d like to believe not, though. Hopefully this year will be a little more productive (at least in terms of writing). And, as for pretty much everyone in the world, last year was a bit trying, to say the least. Here’s to a better one for all. In any case, this post will pick up where my last left off – the second part of a series on creating an endless runner game. If you never saw it or need to remind yourself what the hell I wrote six months ago (as I did), you can check out the first part here. So, if playing along, at the end of the last post you wound up with three prefabs: a CurveController (actually, if you didn’t turn the CurveController into a prefab object, go ahead and do so), and two tiles, Tile01 and Tile02, each with a Curved shader applied. In this episode, we’ll get a random (but not *too* random) collection of those 2 tiles to endlessly […]
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Unity3D Endless Runner Part I – Curved Worlds

by Devon O.· July 17, 2016· in Games, Shaders, Unity3D· 8 comments tags: Unity3D
A couple months back I got an overpowering hankerin’ to create an endless runner style game in Unity3D (think Subway Surfers or Temple Run). Now, it’s been quite some time since I’d even opened Unity3D, let alone made anything so, after updating my free version install to 5.3.5f1, I figured the best thing to do would be to look around for a decent tutorial. I definitely found a couple, but I didn’t actually like the looks of them, so I decided to just spend a couple weekends creating my own instead. Since I did, I thought I’d post my results here to possibly help anyone else with a similar wild hair. Seeing as I’m by no means a Unity expert and am relatively new to C#, I wouldn’t consider this a tutorial, but rather a description of a journey. If anyone who actually knows Unity reads this and wonders why I did something in some very odd fashion, there’s a 99.9% chance it’s because I didn’t know any better. Post a comment if you have any best practices tips. First things first, since I rejected several tutorials after looking at the final product, it’s only fair to show what I set […]
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