Alan Zucconi

Category: Programming

  • Surface shaders in Unity3D

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    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 This is the second part of a series of posts on Unity3D shaders, and it will focus on surface shaders. As previously mentioned, shaders are special programs written in a language called Cg / HLSL which is executed by GPUs. They are used to draw triangles of your 3D…

  • A gentle introduction to shaders in Unity3D

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    Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 We can safely say that Unity3D has made game development easier for a lot of people. Something where it still has a long way to go is, with no doubt, shader coding. Often surrounded by mystery, a shader is a program specifically made to run on a GPU.…

  • How to retrieve all the images from a website

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    Few weeks ago I posted on Twitter few rather bizarre screenshots. A composition of all the submissions for #ScreenshotSaturday, loosely ordered by colour. In this series of posts I’ll briefly explain how I did that using Python. You can download the original pictures (16Mb, 71Mb, 40Mb, 13Mb) here.

  • Retro CRT distortion effect in Flixel 2.5

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    A couple of weeks ago I started using the Flixel Framework, a set of class and libraries in ActionScript3 to effectively design videogames in Flash. Flixel is suggested to all the programmers who want to create games with a retro-style flavour. Although there is a huge support community that actively works on Flixel, finding the…