Seba's Lab

It’s not simple to learn a new framework and even less shift code paradigm. This is why Svelto.ECS has been written with simplicity in mind. Even so, I realised that I ought to write more tutorials to clarify some simple concepts that are not straightforward to grasp at first. That’s why

This an introductory post to Svelto.ECS 2.0. Other two posts will follow, one explaining the examples line by line and another explaining all the Svelto.ECS concepts in a simpler fashion than before. Therefore this article is written for who already knows Svelto.ECS. Svelto.ECS 2.0 is (at the time of writing

Note: this article assumes that the reader knows how to use Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks although the findings are interesting regardless.   Introduction New exciting features are coming to Svelto.ECS and Svelto.Tasks libraries. As I am currently focused on optimizing Robocraft for Xbox One, I added several functionalities that can help

Note: this is an on-going article and is updated with the new features introduced over the time.  In this article I will introduce a better way to run coroutines using the Svelto.Tasks TaskRunner. I will also show how to run coroutine between threads, easily and safely. You can finally exploit

Note: this article is now outdated as Svelto.ECS 2.0 is out. Read it to have a complete picture on the concepts, but the most up to date information can be found now here. Note: in this article you will meet the term Node, which has been superseded by the term

If you need a fast and reliable (read very good to avoid collisions) hashing algorithm (not cryptographic), look no further, Murmur 3 is here to the rescue. Take it from here, it’s compatible with Unity3D. Directly translated from the c++ version. More info on Wikipedia and on this definitive answer on stack overflow

The latest versions of perforce finally support the annoyingly for too long underestimated and useful option P4 clean. Using this command is possible to delete all the local files that are not present in the depot and sync all the files that have been modified locally, or to be more

If it’s the first time you visit my blog, please don’t forget to read my main articles on the subject before to continue this post: http://www.sebaslab.com/ioc-container-for-unity3d-part-1/ http://www.sebaslab.com/ioc-container-for-unity3d-part-2/ It’s finally time to share the latest version of my Inversion of Control container, which I named Svelto IoC, which I will keep updated

This post can be considered partially outdated as my mind changed quite a bit since when I originally wrote it. First of all, I would never suggest to write a game launcher in Unity now. Use instead .net or the latest version of mono with xamarin. Mono library embedded with Unity 4 is too

Unity 3D is a well designed tool, I can say that. It is clearly less painful to use than UDK, no matter what its limitations are. However, as I keep on saying, the c# framework is still full of bad design choices, probably unfortunate inheritances from unity script (why don’t

recently I needed to compress a binary stream that was getting to big to be serialized over internet. I could not find any way to compress files easily, so eventually I used a 3rd party library that works very well in Unity3D (web player included): SharpZipLib I suppose the following

For a long time I wanted to make some experiments with Photon Network Engine at home. During my professional experience, I worked on several multiplayer games, therefore I was pretty curious about it. Exit Games provides two versions of Photon Network Engine: the traditional Photon Server edition and the new Photon Cloud

Events and Commands are two communication tools that I use really often. I have planned more exhaustive articles on the topic, but now I want to write a short post about one rule I apply when I use them. Sometimes it occurs to me the question: should the listener class know

The reason why I called the first tutorial of this series Part 1 is because I knew there were other alternatives around to develop HTML5 games, carefully avoiding javascript. However after some researches it turned out that the only really working alternative suitable for actionscript developers is Jangaroo. Let’s talk

So, I wanted to experiment with actionscript, flex and iPhone, but I do not have a mac and I am not really keen to pay 99$ just to make some plain experiments; besides I have not intention to make a living out of it, so I do not think it

Please note, this article refers to an old version of the TaskRunner which is not supported anymore. The latest version is here. Every now and then it is necessary to run a series of tasks in a given order, for example to guarantee that some data has been downloaded before to continue

Some time ago I collected some notes about Perlin Noise all over the web (sorry I don’t remember the original articles). These notes were finalized to implement a GPU coherent noise based smoke effect. I reckon these notes could be useful for somebody else as well.

This short, not mathematical, introduction written in 2005, explains why I worked on a Global Illumination System and what it is. This article is not part of the objectives of this blog, but I anyway liked the idea to add it.

I did not plan to write this article, but since I wrote this bunch of classes in few minutes, I thought to share the code with everybody. I did not invent anything, I just ported the useful Kevin McFarlane’s DesignByContract helper class that I use for my c# Unity Projects

Before I start talking about my first “HTML5” experience, let me say something: after 15 years of c++ game development today I make games at the company where I work and I experiment at home using ActionScript 3, C# (Unity) and Haxe. Do I miss the C++ times? Not really,