Ive had a look at a couple of implementations, well, 2, essentially, both shells naturally, one is even for Unity and on the unity wiki but my shader ineptitude is causing me issues - it seems simple up to the point where it'll run on sm3 but says it needs both vert and fragment shaders to run in a ogles2 platform and.. im not sure how to add a fragment shader to the code, and theres a bajillion passes which made sense but wondered if i could put that in a loop. Its forward rendered so theres lesstrickery in that regard (iirc) but i also have to look at more control maps too. Oh well, because shaders are a little mixed in with Unity's own system (like how to get shader variables from the inspector to the shader) its a bit much asking you to look at it but if you ever have a free moment id def appreciate you having a look, if you havent the time though, its perfectly fine,  shouldnt really be asking people to do this work for me. Just wish i was more of a shader whizz.

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111,000 downloads

*splurts coffee* Bloody hell. Congratulations. That's amazing.

big time well done!!!!

So my unity presentation got chosen as one to give at our upcoming Engineering Conference. 40-odd people in the audience, including some seniors.

#bittenoffmorethanicanchew

Good luck ace. Just imagine then all looking at you naked, or something.

well todays good news is ive been told i can probably get a bunch of help towards acquiring those precious unity pro licenses in 6 months time or so, whoop

Ahh cheers! I can put together a unitypackage that might show you around that aspect of it a bit, my attentions off the fur for now but i'll set something up so you can have a look at it

I'll host it myself, but yes generally to check a shader that isnt one of their stock ones you can generally just double click it in the project view and it'll open in monodevelop by default, i'll get it sorted tomorrow

I havent really touched that aspect myself yet but theres some good integration with other networking middleware, like Photon, ive read. You might find stuff in the asset store apertaning to it, wish i could help more

RE: Networking - NEVER trust the client.
There may be some net smoothing params can be tweaked somewhere so the client doesn't get instantly teleported each time it receives a position update from the host.

I survived

Actually, the thing went pretty well I think.  Stayed calm, and got my game "finished" in plenty of time.  (10m intro, 40min game, 10mins questions kind of thing.)

Linky below if you're curious to see the quality I delivered, lol.  

www.positronicarts.com/games/unity/gamedev101/WebPlayer.html

(@edit: link fixed - but I wouldn't get too excited, it was better when it was broken...!)

Good work ace! And glad to see you got it fixed Ram, sorry for not getting back to you yet Chump, i've been a bit scattered all week and so ive been crap at doing things that involve any thinking that isnt directly what im doing aha, but i'll try get a quick scene set up for you when i next wake, was thinking of something like the fur on a test rig and some other shaders i DOunderstand but have faffed with so you might get an idea of unity's surface shaders and how they differ (by differ they just do a lot of stuff for you) from normal CG vert/fragment shaders and some frankesteinian monster shaders ive made fromthese things. That you'll prob laugh at for being outrageously over-costly, but that said i'd appreciate advice on how to speed a shader up certainly!

If you think there are any 'must have' shader sort of things i could use i'd love to know of them, one i can think of in particular is a FFT or something like that-powered water shader that still worked at a mobile-level cost if at all possible just for wavy water on high end mobiles. In fact i'll tell you now, if you pulled that off, you could clean up nicely on the unity asset store, along with all sorts of cool shadery stuff actually. There's this awesome shader writing guy on their forums who goes by Farfarer who just seems to offer amazing shader snippets all the time on a whim and he never charges, its crazy when i think about it given im sure you could make a tidy margin offering shader collections on the asset store that blow the competitions' out of the water, even ones that might only have niche uses. Or definitely a collection that through some method can be kinda modular without going the full blown shader node editor route.

Def check out the asset store, its basically a kinda outlet for unity users to sell their unity based stuff for other users, theres some great stuff and some not so great and its a good way to see how you can contribute for either fun or money.

You can use any shading language you fancy, Unity compiles it all its own way sometimes lacking some particular syntax, but you can use hlsl, glsl or, as you'll find most examples are in, CG. There's also Unity's own Surface Shader approach which is quite ok for a range of things and tries to simplify things a great deal, its especially good for getting stuck in and just compositing effects but you'll prob outgrow it quickly

I said i'd get something together today but i think i lied, i woke up at 7pm then bought rum so that buggered, but i'm going to try get something together that will get you stuck in to it properly - a nice resource however is http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLSL_Programming/Unity for having a look into the meat and bones, i dont actually know any hlsl examples but i have read you can use it, maybe its a matter of experimentation

Qix? That's one you don't see often.

PS. You get 5% as it's a "maybe".

lol, like this, maybe:

How the hell does... no, wait, I don't want to know.