Alex Earley DevEarley

If you are planning on using GODOT in compatability mode, you will not be able to use certain features. Like Decals.

This script will give you a similar effect to decals using a 3D Sprite. There are probably other ways to do this, but this works well for me.

SHADOW file:

Example setup:

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Google Sheet Number Formats for Profiling

Nanoseconds & Milliseconds

[<1000000]##0.00" NS";##0.00,," MS"

Thousands & Millions

[&lt;1000]##0.00" ";[&lt;1000000]##0.00," K";##0.00,," M"

Behaviours

Attached to a GO. Many GOs may have this script.
A MonoBehaviour.
Can be used multiple times in a scene.
Can implement interfaces.
Great for enemy behaviour, trigger & door logic, reacting to OnTrigger events.

Controllers

Attached to a GO like a Behaviour
Single instance of this may exist in a scene at once.

Service Locator pattern in Unity3D

Using the Service Locator pattern in Unity allows you connect various services together to a single source. When a script needs access to something on the Service Locator, it just needs to access the Service Locators's Instance. This instance will have any service the invoker may need.

To setup, the service must be referenced in the script and the script must find these services on Awake. You can look them up by the GameObject they are attached to or attach them to the Service Locator's GO. In this example, I use GetComponentInChildren<T>(). Alternatively you can search for the GameObject by name and then get the component, PlayerController = GameObject.Find("PlayerController").GetComponent<PlayerController>();

Contains references to all Controllers and all Services.
Attached to a GO.
Must reference all controllers and services automatically.

Delegate pattern in Uniy3D

A delegate is something that acts on another thing's behalf.
So if Thing A needed something, Thing B to Thing Z could deliver that to Thing A. This makes Things B to Z all delegates to Thing A. Thing A invokes a delegate function. Thing A doesn't care who runs the errand. Thing A doesn't care how it happens. As long as it happens.

Delegate Invoker

Notes on Frontend Testing

Use Data Attributes Rather Than CSS Selectors.

... choose selectors less prone to change. My favorite type of selector is the data attribute. A developer is less likely to change data attributes while refactoring, making them perfect for locating elements in tests. I recommend naming them in a meaningful way to clearly convey their purpose to any developers working on the source code.

* Frontend Testing Pitfalls

Don't Use AAA, Use BDD!

AAA refers to Arrange, Act, Assert. This is a tried and true pattern for unit testing things like APIS. But does that work for something like integration testing with the DOM? Consider another approach, behavioral-driven development (BDD).

	public class RNGController : MonoBehaviour
	{
	private int index = 0;
	private int lastLargestIndex = 0;
	private int max_index = 1000;
	private List <int> values = new List<int>();

	public int Next(int RNG_ID)
	{
	var offsetIndex = RNG_ID + index;

	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;

	public enum CommonScreenResolutions
	{
	gameConsole_16bit_pocket_10x9, //160 × 144 160∶144 10:9 1∶1
	gameConsole_16bit_low_4x3, //256 × 224 256∶224 4∶3 7∶6
	gameConsole_16bit_super_4x3, //400 × 300 4∶3 4∶3 1∶1
	gameConsole_32bit_low_4x3, //256 × 224 256∶224 4∶3 7∶6

	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;
	using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
	public enum InputControllerState
	{
	NO_INPUT_DEVICE_CONNECTED,
	NO_CONTROLLER_CONNECTED,
	NO_KEYBOARD_CONNECTED,
	BOTH_KEYBOARD_AND_CONTROLLER_CONNECTED