2D in Unity3D with Parallaxing

The beginning of my 2D game which I'm using Unity3D for so it requires some hacks. At the moment it's just using a orthographic camera and uses the Z position to sort the sprites. With the current shader there's some pretty serious artefacts when 2 sprites share the same z-depth and overlap. I will be working on a depth manager similar to Flashes display list.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• unity3d
• 2d
• gamedev

[devgb]

Very nice, I want that script! :)

How did you make these layers? They are planes with textures on them? Or you just made some models (in 3DS Max for example) and imported them?

I'm really interested in developing 2D games in Unity for the iOS platform (and for Desktop too), but I'm so new to these things, I don't know where to start learning the acutal 2D things. I programmed a lot in AS3, but that's an other world, you know.

I hope you'll answer my questions! Thank you!

[QuickFingersGames]

@devgb hey there, yes just planes with textures on, a 2 triangle plane is all you really need for 2D in unity :) I gave a talk recently about 2d games in unity , it'll be posted online soon so I'll let you know when it is should answer lots of your questions

[jonscriven]

@QuickFingersGames - When is your talk about 2d games in unity going to be posted? I'd be really interested in seeing that....

[QuickFingersGames]

@jonscriven unforunately youtube wont let me post url's in the comments so.. its

blogs.unity3d.com /2011/05/03/london-unity-user-­group-luug-meet-v1-0/

but remove the space after .com

[evertonjf08]

@QuickFingersGames When I type in the url it says it's not their.... =/ 

[QuickFingersGames]

@evertonjf08 it seems copy pasting messes up the formatting , do a google search for "london-unity-user-­group-luug­-meet-v1-0" and its the first link

[RedofYellow]

@newtubetubetube Are you serious?

[MrRexTV1]

looks like angry birds!

[buddyroach]

looks like angry birds

[Iverdero]

How did you make the sky?

[mantanz]

Unity rocks. I use it for both 3D and 2D game design... so easy to use. I love it!

[RealitieBeats]

@QuickFingersGames If You Know C# as well please do respond.

[RealitieBeats]

@QuickFingersGames Hey Love this design, need to talk buisness if you know javascripting very well. THIS IS A SERIOUS INQUIRY.

[zs6djm]

How did you get the 3 mountain planes to move at different speeds to each other? Also when is the next get together in London? Cheers

[Hypothic]

@QuickFingersGames Thanks for posting that, it helps me with my 2D issues. I thought SpriteManager would work to make a square sprite (2 triangles), but its kind of stupid you cant create the objects in the editor (you have to create them in the scripts) and it doesn't really handle any animations. I will try your method and create a 2-triangle mesh in Maya lol, hopefully that works.

[527saner]

please can you upload a tutorial please

[newtubetubetube]

@abb890 said "he used something called parallaxing to make it look 2d...."

Parallax displacement is a technique use to give the appearance of 3d. Not the other way around...