360 Videos in Unity with VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer – Review & Tutorial

Written by PET on 28.July.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity, Unity Assets Reviews

VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer is an Unity Asset that will help you render 360 videos in Unity. You can use those 360 videos on YouTube, Facebook and more importantly any VR device. It’s an amazing tool especially if you want to do some Architectural Visualizations and you want to provide a 360 video for the client. Yea, having an actual application that runs your scene can be amazing, but let’s say that you want to fast demo your work for a possible client. You prepare your 360 video by putting it on your phone, you bring your GearVR with you, then you give that GearVR + Phone to your possible client and bam! Now your client can actually see your work in 360. That way your amazing scene can “run” on your Android device.

Just to be more clear. Using VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer you can render your scene in 360 images. Then those 360 images get transformed into a 360 video. With that video you can do various things. You can put it on YouTube, Facebook or use it on your phone or a 360 video player. I actually developed an Android app that plays 360 videos.

GAIA Terrain 360 Video Demo. (Not ideal for YouTube since YT compression introduces a lot of artifacts because of the grass foliage)
VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer Demo - Arena 3840x2160
VR Panorama 360 PRO Renderer Demo - Arena 7680x4320

Now let’s see how can we use VR Panorama to render 360 videos.

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Plants vs Zombies in Unity with FlowCanvas

Written by PET on 04.July.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

In order to improve my programming & my logic skills I decided to do a really small clone of Plants vs. Zombies in Unity using FlowCanvas. 

I first found out about a tutorial like this on “noobtuts”. He uses actually code but I decided to try to look at the code and try to make that code using FlowCanvas. That particular Plants vs. Zombies tutorial is “PRO” and requires a subscription, but it was enough to inspire me and make my own tasks.

In this written article I will try to show screenshots and briefly try to explain what I wanted to accomplish, I do however recommend you to watch the YouTube video below because I will go into more details about the challenges I encountered.

Those are the mechanics I wanted to implement:

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Namzuc DevLog #01

Written by PET on 01.April.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Back in 2014 I started to design a game that mixed up elements from boardgames with roguelike games. I was a bit annoyed that I couldn’t find a programmer to make a small prototype, however at the beginning of 2016 I found out an Unity plugin called FlowCanvas.

For those who don’t know FlowCanvas is a “visual coding tool” … meaning that you code with visual elements. You still need to know programming, but for people like me this is an incredible tool. I somehow find programming a bit to slow and boring. Please note that FlowCanvas is different than Playmaker! PlayMaker is a State Machine where you can do various actions on each state. With FlowCanvas you really need to know what you want to do and how you do it!

So I decided to pickup FlowCanvas and give it a go:

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