Parallax Shaders & Depth Maps

In the previous part of this series, Inside Facebook 3D Photos, we have explained how modern mobile phones are able to infer depth from pictures. Such a piece of information is stored in a depth map, which is used for a variety of effects. From blurring the background to three-dimensional reconstruction, this type of technology will become more and more present in our daily lives.

This is a two-part series. You can read all the posts here:

A link to the complete Unity package is available at the end of the tutorial.

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Fading Sprites in Unity 5

This tutorial shows how to extend the class SpriteRenderer  to support intuitive, painless fading transitions. Despite referring to sprites, this approach can be used to easily animate any property of a game object in Unity.

The link for the script used in this tutorial is at the end of the post.

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