Appear and disappear effect in WaveEngine

In this article, I’m going to show how to create a cool effect to make the NPCs in your game appear or disappear. One of the issues that you need to resolve when you kill an enemy in your game is how to hide it from your scene. Unless, of course, you want to pile up enemy bodies.

We are going to create a custom shader in WaveEngine for our aim. If you do not already know it, we recommend reading this article before you start.

Follow the steps to create the project effect.

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Facing navigation flow with Wave Engine

The navigation flow in games is a very important part that can be difficult to deal with. In this article we will introduce a possible strategy to solve this.

Wave Engine provides generic services and tools to manage scene transitions and basic navigation. However, distributing the navigation logic between different scenes and behaviors can be tricky at times and difficult to scale.

To solve this, an interesting approach is to use a service that contains all the navigation logic, managing transitions and deferred loading between scenes. Later, a simple and generic component can be used to link navigation events to buttons in the scene and hardware buttons. Continue reading Facing navigation flow with Wave Engine