Today I did my first Android build and ran it on my Nokia 8.1. All went smoothly – kudos to Unity for making the process of building for Android error-free and “just works”.
This showed a couple of issues:
- The camera’s clipping the edges of the map; it was simple enough to fix this with a script that adjusted the camera’s ortho size based on the grid dimensions and screen aspect ratio.
- When you run out of track, you have to kill the app and restart it. This has been annoying me for a while in the Editor, so I decided to crack on with…
UI
I’ve only briefly used Unity UI before, so I did a bit of reading, and setup a Game Over screen with a Restart button that works via the built-in trigger system – just point it at the GameController object and select the “NewGame” function – job done!
I then spent a while figuring out how to stick a background image behind the entire game to fill-in the grey bars at the top & bottom, and also the gaps you can see when tiles rotate. I grabbed a wallpaper off the internet (which I’ll replace with something bespoke later), and put it on a camera-space UI attached to the camera, positioned behind everything else in the scene.
Tomorrow – more UI I think; perhaps a speedo and score counter.
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