Unity 3.5 and Menu Flow

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I've been occupied with fixing up my Yamaha WR250F for the upcoming race, Ränneslättsloppet, on Saturday:

  • New oil and oil filter

  • New air filter with NoToil air filter oil

  • Changed to the enduro tires I also used on Stångebroloppet in July (with new inner tubes)

  • Fitted the coolant reservoir again (engine it runs hot in races like these ones, three hours of slow movement isn't great for the engine that relies on fast flowing air through the radiator)

  • Fitted new hand guards

  • Removed the indicators and number license plate

  • Fitted the race numbers


Here's are some clips from the 2008 year edition of Ränneslättsloppet... Let's hope it isn't too wet this year =)

What about Astrofighter.Net then?


I've also been working on Astrofighter.Net during the past couple of days but most of my work has been shuffling around boxes in Visio to try to get the menu flow and GUI design in order. Even thought this is a fairly small game I want to make sure that the lobby screen, ship selection, hosting options, etc. is very easy to understand. I hope it's worth the time spent on getting it right =)

I'm also looking forward to Unity 3.5 which is scheduled to be released in late 2011. The conference "Unite 11" which is currently being held demonstrated some of the new features and I found quite a lot of useful information in this blog post.

Even though there are some really visually impressive features coming in Unity 3.5, I am looking forward to the new GUI / UI very much. I don't particularly like the limitations of the GUI in the current version of Unity and it would really make things easier if the new GUI Editor is available before I have to have a go at making the final menu system for Astrofighter.Net.

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  1. kenSeptember 30, 2011 at 2:04 AM

    I used the Imphenzia forum many years ago but I am certain that I never willfully subscribed to these blog updates -- no offense, Stefan. Kindly unsubscribe me, as I see no mechanism present allowing me to perform that action myself. I will be grateful. And many sincere thanks for Beatball 1, a truly fabulous piece of software.

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  2. ImphenziaSeptember 30, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    I've removed your account Ken so you shouldn't get any more updates. The forum and blog has never been linked but if anyone registers and account in this blog the default role of the account will be "Subscriber". I'm using a Wordpress plugin that e-mails the updates to subscribers but since you pointed out there is no way to unsubscribe directly though the e-mail I will disable the plugin until I find one that works properly. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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