While developing games in my spare time for game jams and personal projects, I’ve found a number of repeated features which I would remake between projects. Seeing this redundancy, I created a Unity package to contain these reusable features.
The package can be found at https://github.com/Ezra-Mason/ez-utils
Making this package a submodule in a projects git repo makes it super easy to include edits to the package if I identify bugs or need to expand the utilities.
The package, as of the writing of this post, contains:
- Core
- Scriptable Variables (abstract base class, bool, int, Vector3 and GameObject)
- Events (ScriptableObject event objects and listener class)
- Repositories (ScriptableObject for storing, sharing and updating objects)
- Springs (Simple Harmonic Motion methods and classes for 1,2 and 3D springs)
- Runtime
- Collections (ScriptableObject for a managing a repository of objects)
- Finite State Machine (Adaptable FSM system with customisable states)
- Inverse Kinematics (Two bone IK for bipedal motion)
- Object Pooling (Generic pooling of objects using a stack pool)
I am still adding to this system as I work on personal projects. My latest additions are scene references, splines and a behaviour tree system and associated editor window using Unity’s IMGUI.
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