Many functions may seem complex at the beginning but turn out to be simple once you understand the concept. Unity coroutine is one such thing. A coroutine is a function that allows pausing its execution and resuming from the same point after a condition is met. You can start a coroutine and wait for its … Read more

Scenes are part of every game. Changing scene based on the game’s story or based on the menu is a common functionality required in all game engines. In Unity, the Scene Manager does that job. The Unity Scene Manager, as its name suggests, manages your scenes at runtime. It is a well-equipped class of Unity … Read more

Random number generation is used in a lot of applications. In games, random numbers are mostly used for level design to achieve the procedural generation of levels. Every random number generator uses a different algorithm. Unity random number generation uses Marsaglia’s Xorshift 128 algorithm. Though the generated number or sequence in Unity is pseudo-random, it is … Read more

When you add a Gameobject in the Unity scene the first thing that you notice in the inspector window is the transform component. Unity transform defines the position, rotation, and size of a Gameobject in the game world. transform might be the most basic component in Unity but it’s also the most important. You cannot … Read more

The very first thing that anyone notices when starting with scripting in Unity is the Unity Start and the Unity Update function. They are added by default in all the new scripts and there is also an explanation of what these functions do. But, there is confusion among new developers in how the Start and … Read more

I woke up one day and tried to update my Unity version to the new one and to my surprise there was a new software called Unity hub in place of Unity installer. From the start of 2019 Unity doesn’t give the option to install Unity without Hub. So, I started to do some research … Read more

When I first started game development with Unity I used to stay away from some of the functions that I don’t understand. Unity Raycast is one such function. When I learnt about Raycast then I understood the importance and how Raycast can make a lot of things easier. So, in this post we will be … Read more

No matter what type of game you are making, pausing it will be needed at some point. Now you can pause the game with or without a pause menu depending on your game type. In Unity, there are a few options when it comes to pausing a game. In this post we will see all … Read more

Unity has a lot of predefined functions that you can use in your game scripting. Awake and Start are two of such functions. But, there is so much confusion on these functions that Unity Awake vs Start is one of the most searched terms online. In this post, we will see how these functions work … Read more

Timers are used in a lot of places in game development. Timers are used differently in different games. Some games use it as a countdown timer, some use it to increase the game difficulty and some use it to spawn enemies or powerup in the game. Unity timer function makes all this very easy to … Read more