UiToolkit – Runtime tool tips made easy

I am currently working on a project there i was in need of tool tips. If you worked with UiToolkit before you know there are tool tips for the editor environment but not yet for the runtime environment. But luckily its very easy to get the tool tips into the runtime environment. We just have …

Transfer Git repositories with LFS content, all branches and complete history

As we were forced to move our GIT repositories from a cloud hosting service to our servers on site I wrote a litte shellscript for OSX to do this for me repository by repository. The main problem was to transfer the LFS content wich wasn't supported by our cloud hosting service so we had to …

Texture dissolve particle effect

I was playing around with the texture emitters and the noice modules of unity's shuriken particle system ... you can achieve very nice effects with such simple tools!  https://youtu.be/KWwQejfrpxM https://youtu.be/jMuBsnQDgEk

Shader Unlit Alpha Color

Since I often need a unlit shader with transparency and a color overlay, and this is not a shader that comes with Unity i always find myself downloading the built-in shaders and modify the unlit-alpha.shader ... so for you and my future self, just copy paste:  // Unity built-in shader source. Copyright (c) 2016 Unity …

Raspberry & Octoprint

To print stuff on your 3D printer you either handle those nasty sd-cards or you have a pc attached to your printer running all the time. To "FIX" this i decided to set up a raspberry pi with octoprint and have this always attached to the printer. I baught the Raspberry Pi 3 and …

Strain relief for the heatbed cables Pursa i3 / Thingiverse

I red a lot about the cables that power the heat/build plate to loosen or suffering from material fatigue and I didn't find a thing that was fitting my printer setup so I designed one myself and decided to share it on thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2941788  

Connect Four 3D (IOS & TV OS)

A long time ago there was my first project I released in the App Stores called Connect Four 3D then it looks a lot different! And it lied in the stores for a long time. But then came this 64 Bit stuff and since I didn't update the App it was removed from the stores. …

How to get DPad values in Unity TVOS

Struggled some time to get the dpad values and the delta touch positions in my Unity TVOS project. Its kind of strange to set it up but it works. In the unity scripting reference you can find this value for this Remote.reportAbsoluteDpadValues and my thought was to call this in Awake or Start but that …

Warping – Bed leveling and the settings

Try Try Try and Try again until you get it right ... well thats what i did and still trying to do it better ... https://youtu.be/W7yP7n0fPJo Leveling the bed was not so much of a problem for the first print, because it was a very tiny one in the middle of the bed and it …

CURA and the first print

Cura is the slicer software of my choice. Why? Well i didn't knew much when i started using it ... and it was recommended by the handbook of the 3D printer. So I set up Cura it was really simple just choosing the printer I had and installing the correct drivers for the printer and …