I want to animate a GUI element behind something during part of the animation and in front of it for the rest. The render order of GUI items is the order they appear in the hierarchy window, so how do we change that in an animation?
Continue reading How to animate the render order of objects in the new Unity3D 4.6 uGUI
The following article details how, under load, my MacBook (Pro Retina Mid 2012 2.6GHz Intel i7 with 16Gb) was less than 1/4 of the speed it used to be and how I fixed it.
Over the last few months I started to notice that things were becoming less responsive in my dev environment, that’s an understatement, it was beginning to crawl. Something needed to be done or I needed a new machine!
Continue reading Fixing a Macbook that’s got slower over time.
When writing our original Facebook integration we searched high and low to try to work out how to get the square profile image at a resolution higher than 50×50 pixels to no avail. The only options we could find were to get the picture, from which your profile picture is taken, at a higher resolution. The problem with this is that it’s not always square and often the user may have setup their profile image to be a cropped area of it.
Well today I was fed up with looking at low resolution images so searched again and managed to find a solution. Using the graph api you can request facebookid/profile?fields=pic_crop
eg http://graph.facebook.com/tactilefusion/profile?fields=pic_crop returns:
{
"data": [
{
"pic_crop": {
"uri": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/t1/p320x320/10992_567316339955054_1439725697_n.jpg",
"width": 320,
"height": 320,
"left": 0,
"top": 0,
"right": 1,
"bottom": 1
},
"id": "447312341955455"
}
]
}
Note that the left, top, right, bottom fields will always be the above they are there for backwards compatibility as it now always returns a cropped image.
So at last we have full res profile images in our new games in production:
Take a look at the promo video for Stuntman Eddie which we have been working on with Tactile Fusion: