A couple of months ago I’d finally lost my patience with my Nokia 9 Pureview. It was a good phone, kept up with Android releases, but the camera had become so unreliable that I had to seek a replacement. This coincided with Google releasing the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro…

When you write a reasonably large application then you will get exceptions. One source of information about these problems are diagnostic log files. However, just because you can see that an exception has been reported it is not always obvious what state the wider system was in to trigger the…

Terminology, and more specifically labels, are a real problem. The problem is that what they actually mean often becomes distorted over time. I recently read a whole thread on the word “decimate”; What it commonly means — kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of. What it actually means —…

The core design decision when using MLAPI is who has the responsibility for updating the data, is it the Server or the Client? …

Today I was following the basic setup tutorial for the Mixed Reality Tool Kit (MRTK). However, I hit a problem, I didn’t see any controllers and the little ‘Hello World’ cube was just stuck on the screen.

My Xevious Boss is an object with five child, or nested, objects. To convert this into an MLAPI object I added a NetworkObject to each node, i.e. one for the root Boss and one each for the nested objects. When I instantiate the boss, or in MLAPI terms Spawn the…

A typical way of creating a character for your game is to take a 3D model of a person and craft the clothing onto it. That works well. However, it can be a little expensive if you want to create variations. …

Today I was slapped in the face by MLAPI. I have been happily testing Xevious using each individual level since essentially the levels contain the different types of enemies I need to make “network-ware”. However when I tried a complete run-through of the game it did NOT work. Levels & the hierarchy I…

In my previous article I wrote about synchronising the bullets. Xevious has a secondary fire, a bomb that is dropped onto a bomb target. I.e. when you drop a bomb there are two objects created, a target and a bomb. Both of these must be synced between the players. Previously…