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3D animated characters – to show recent Tweets

Written by on Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Here is a nice thing from Doppler Interactive

http://world.dopplerinteractive.com/2010/12/3d-twitter-world-by-doppler-interactive.html

- they collect recent tweets and show them as speech bubbles for wandering little (named) characters in their 3D Tweet World

Note -  you’ll need the Unity browser plug-in to see it working in browser – in case you don’t have / want that, below is a screenshot …

Unity – scripting – detecting collision between CharacterController and NOT the ground

Written by on Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 5:33 pm

after a few minutes I managed to write this script so that we IGNORE any collisions BELOW the character controller (since it is always colliding with the ground!) (more…)