Manu's Techblog

Linear or random distribution of GameObjects in the Inspector

Unity's Inspector has some hidden gems! One of them is a linear or random distribution of items via L(min,max) or R(min,max).

Unity

Floating Origin in Unity

If you're creating an endless runner or a game with big/endless worlds, you will encounter an error after a certain distance from the game engine's origin. The error will mostly be noticeable in visual things, e.g. meshes have overlaps and maybe some stuff is not rendered in the

Unity

Unity Tip: Level Selection Editor Window

Learn how to create a little utility editor window to load your own levels in a comfortable way.

Unity

Burst Compiled Noise Map Generation

Learn how to use burst compilation for simple noise maps to increase performance up to 80 times.

Unity LLVM Out Of Memory

Good news!Unity just launched an update to the DevOps dashboard that now has two distinct toggle buttons to enable development builds and/or script debugging, yay! So no more POST requests are needed. Updated DevOps togglesOld PostTL;DR - Solution In recent versions of Unity due to some limitations

Unity

Set inspector icon for GameObjects via C# script in Unity

Ever wondered how you can set the inspector icon for GameObjects via a C# script in Unity? Especially without reflection, which is the old solution to do. GameObject inspector iconExecute this in an editor script: var iconContent = EditorGUIUtility.IconContent("sv_label_1"); EditorGUIUtility.SetIconForObject(gameObject, (Texture2D) iconContent.image);sv_label_

Angular

You're using CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA wrong.

Using CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA will opt out of certain Angular template checking feature, if not done right. This blog post tells you, how to do it right.

Angular

Integrate Tailwind CSS with Angular

Forget all other guides! This guide shows you how to integrate Tailwind CSS with Angular. Fast & easy.

Unity

Unity Custom Project Templates (or: How to get rid of the example assets when creating a new HDRP/URP project)

Learn how to create a custom Unity project template to get rid of the example assets when creating a new HDRP or URP project.

MacOS shortcut for "Print to PDF"

Nowadays, at least for me, using ⌘P for printing is outdated. Not because I don't need to print, but I mostly need to print to PDF. Invoking that shortcut brings up the macOS print dialog: macOS Print DialogThen, I've to click at "Save as PDF", because that's what I need,

Unity

How to fix Text Mesh Pro showing in scene view but not in game view

I recently had the problem that for whatever reason my Unity game stopped displaying certain texts. Within the scene view, the text was visible, but within the game view of the running game some of the texts disappeared. Even more strange, it was the same prefab used throughout the game

Unity

FluentAssertions for Unity

For my current game I'm developing with a friend, I started testing the core engine features from day one using the Unity Test Runner & Assertion Library. To be honest, I dislike the built-in functionality of writing asserts. They are hard to read and in case of an error, they

IDE

How To Get Syntax Highlighting into Keynote Or PowerPoint - The Definitive Way (for JetBrains IDE users)

When it comes to preparing slides, there is one thing I which annoys me most of the time: getting code with my preferred syntax highlighting (which is Darcula from JetBrains IDEs) into Keynote or PowerPoint. Out in the wild, there are several solutions, using HomeBrew and highlight.js,using Sublime

ASP.NET Core 1.0

How To Create a Self-Signed SAN Certificate - The Easy Way

For a current project, I'm developing an ASP.NET Core 2.1 based multi-tenancy Web API. To test locally, I added some domains to my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 product.local 127.0.0.1 tenant-a.product.local 127.0.0.1 tenant-b.product.local In the HTTP

Angular

Packaging Angular Libraries

To create Angular packages, different methods can be considered, since the Angular CLI currently does not offer this option. All other options have their own pros and cons, which should be considered for your specific use cases.

TypeScript

Quick Object Return - or how to return object literals from arrow functions?

Quick Object Return helps to return object literals from arrow functions directly without having to use a function body returning the object.

Node.js

"Alexa: Start Lego Robot" - Connecting Amazon Alexa to Lego Mindstorms EV3

Ever thought of controlling your Lego Mindstorms robot via voice? Even EV3 does not have enough performance to cover that scenario. But with a combination of the latest and greatest voice services, like Amazon Alexa, Google Home or even Cortana, it's possible to control a Lego Mindstorms robot via voice.

Angular

How to debug Angular 2 with WebStorm

WebStorm is my favorite choice when it comes to develop web applications especially with Angular 2. Most of the time I have a fullscreen WebStorm on my primary and Chrome on my secondary screen. When it comes to debugging, I spin up my Chrome Developer Tools and debug along. But

Node.js

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 4: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Welcome back to the fourth part of the series! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project. The post itself contains important code pieces only. Same Origin Policy For security reasons, the browser blocks all requests from within a document or script

ASP.NET Core 1.0

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 3: Basic Routing

Welcome back to the third part of the series! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project. The post itself contains important code pieces only. In this part we take a look at basic routing capabilities. The requirements for that are pretty

Node.js

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 2: Web API Server Setup

Welcome back to the second part of the series! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project. The post itself contains important code pieces only. In this part we are going to create the Web API project for both Node.js and

Node.js

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 1: Intro

Some days ago I was talking about Web APIs with Node.js for .NET developers at the BASTA! Conference in Darmstadt, Germany. We from Thinktecture had a blast at this great conference! My main focus in this session was giving .NET developers an overview about Node.js and how you

Angular

Flakes - An alternative to proven HTML5 cross-platform UI Frameworks

Every developer can relate to this quote: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton I want to add another thing to Phil's list: Finding an UI framework. Don't get me wrong, there are a plenty of UI Frameworks out there.

ASP.NET Core 1.0

Back to the roots: Creating thin Web APIs using the Core of ASP.NET Core 1.0

I'm currently fiddling about ASP.NET Core 1.0 using VS Code on my Mac. I have a simple scenario: Building a Web API which has CRUD operations for a CustomerModel. So purely HTTP things. :-) My controller looks like: using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc; using System; using System.Collections.Generic;

CloudFlare

Supercharge your ghost.io blog with CloudFlare

Intro As you may noticed I switched my blog over to ghost.io. My colleague and friend Thorsten has a nice blog post about the reasons which I highly share. Writing posts and creating templates is so much cleaner, I just like it. :-) Okay, back to the topic: Supercharging