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Comment on 3 Ways To Capture A Screenshot In Unity3D by Ralph Barbagallo

Ralph Barbagallo — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:21:38 +0000

You have to convert it to a Texture2d and then use that classes PNG encoding method. See here: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/37134/is-it-possible-to-save-rendertextures-into-png-fil.html

Comment on 3 Ways To Capture A Screenshot In Unity3D by chris

chris — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:48:21 +0000

Hi Ralph, this is very useful. I’ve been struggling with creating a png from a camera that isn’t the Main view camera, and from your tips i’m headed in the right direction. I was wondering if you could clarify (or send me a link to somewhere that clarifies — i can’t find anything) what you mean by “access the color buffer of the RenderTexture.” I’ve got my rendertexture set up, but I don’t understand how to use the color buffer to encode the png, and I can’t find any examples.

Comment on How to Talk to Rich People by Conversational Hacks: “No Blocking” « Ralph Barbagallo's Self Indulgent Blog

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:02:43 +0000

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Comment on I was only half kidding…. by Conversational Hacks: “No Blocking” « Ralph Barbagallo's Self Indulgent Blog

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:02:40 +0000

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Comment on Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey Strategies by Ralph Barbagallo

Ralph Barbagallo — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:29:19 +0000

Well they don’t have to ‘speak’ to each other really–I think one of the links in the post describes how to set it up.

Basically you make a web form in your Turk HIT that has a the surveymonkey embed code and a text field where the responder types in the code that’s on the last page of your survey. It’s just a little HTML.

Comment on Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey Strategies by Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:01:59 +0000

Thank you for sharing. This was very interesting and helpful as we’ve just started using turk for some research. Was curious how did difficult it was to have turk “speak” with survey monkey. Was much coding involved or does turk/monkey offer a simple tool for this?

Comment on Facebook’s Mobile Gaming Apocalypse by Ralph Barbagallo

Ralph Barbagallo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:29:46 +0000

Well they have already gone to smartphones–which is why all the major social gaming companies are following suit. The top 100 grossing iOS apps generally are not from small developers any more–but you can make money targeting underserved markets on the App Store.

Comment on Facebook’s Mobile Gaming Apocalypse by Derek

Derek — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:16:28 +0000

Yep, I agree completely, great post. If we’re lucky, us little guys on mobile can properly take advantage of the shift. I worry about that sort of thing all the time. You figure most of those social users will go *somewhere*, and with smartphone sales absolutely exploding quarter after quarter, hopefully that’s where the users are going. We await them with open arms. 8)

Comment on Android Users Are Apathetic by Ralph Barbagallo

Ralph Barbagallo — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:29:29 +0000

Piracy is huge on both platforms. It’s part of the reason why doing premium (paid) apps is a complete waste of time in most cases.

Comment on Android Users Are Apathetic by Jeff miller

Jeff miller — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:13:13 +0000

Very interesting! Wondering how these stats relate to piracy. Windows mobile users seemed similarly apathetic, but piracy was major issue there. The lack of a focused, promoted app store didn’t help either.