Everyday Unity

LCD Display Shader Effect

I have seen this vfx in various games like Valorant or BF 2042, and every time it's eye-catching.

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2016/05/04/lcd-shader/

#shader #lcd

Unity-Editor-Toolbox: Tools, custom attributes, drawers, hierarchy overlay, and other extensions for the Unity Editor

https://github.com/arimger/Unity-Editor-Toolbox

#editortools

Sidekick: Inspect all fields, properties and methods in Unity editor, fire methods and events, inspect hidden objects

https://github.com/sabresaurus/Sidekick

#editortools

UnityTutorials-RTS: The code for series of tutorials on how to make a real-time stategy (RTS) game in Unity

https://github.com/MinaPecheux/UnityTutorials-RTS

#rts #strategy

Unity Programming Patterns

A collection of programming patterns in Unity with examples when to use them. These are primarily from the book "Game Programming Patterns," but translated from C++ to C#

https://github.com/Habrador/Unity-Programming-Patterns

#pattern

Simple Roads

A free kit for building any kind of road. From curvy race tracks, to busy city junctions. Supports elevations and ramps so your cities and tracks don't have to be flat and boring.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/roadways/simple-roads-212360

#road #roadsystem

Game Math: Dot Product, Rulers, And Bouncing Balls

The dot product is a simple yet extremely useful mathematical tool. It encodes the relationship between two vectors’ magnitudes and directions into a single value. It is useful for computing projection, reflection, lighting, and so much more.

https://allenchou.net/2020/01/dot-product-projection-reflection/

#math #dotproduct #projection

Intro To Raymarching

Raymarching implementation using shader

https://www.patreon.com/posts/64940246

#raymarching #shader

KNN: Fast K-Nearest Neighbour Library for Unity DOTS. It uses K-D trees to speed up queries.

https://github.com/ArthurBrussee/KNN

#search #nearest #neighbour

Move on over to the Universal Render Pipeline with our advanced guide

https://blog.unity.com/technology/move-on-over-to-the-universal-render-pipeline-with-our-advanced-guide

#urp #book

UnsafeCollections

This project contains various collections that perform no managed memory allocation. It alleviates GC (Garbage Collector) pressure useful for usecases such as Unity.

https://github.com/DennisCorvers/UnsafeCollections

#collection #unsafe #nativecollection

UDP vs. TCP

When writing a network game, we first need to choose what type of socket to use. Do we use TCP sockets, UDP sockets or a mixture of both?

https://gafferongames.com/post/udp_vs_tcp/

#udp #tcp #networking #netcode

Vertex Displacement

How to displace vertices and recalculate normals manually in a surface shader.

https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/015-wobble-displacement/

#shader #vertexdisplacement #deformation #normals

Frame-specific attacks in Unity

There are a lot of examples where it can be used, but basically it gives more control over animations which gives us more possibilities to implement different features.

http://strangewire.blogspot.com/2019/09/frame-specific-attacks-in-unity.html

#frameattacks #attacks

Compute Shaders: Grass Rendering

The title is a bit misleading, as the author still uses geometry shader to generate grass blades, so it doesn't work on Metal. But it is still an interesting example as the compute shader is used to calculate multiple objects interaction with grass.

https://medium.com/dotcrossdot/compute-shaders-grass-rendering-6916a9dd008e

#grass #compute #shader

Unity Traffic Simulation

A Unity asset that lets you easily simulate very simple traffic into your scene.

https://github.com/mchrbn/unity-traffic-simulation

#traffic

Dissolve Effect in Shader Graph and URP
Breaking down a world-space dissolve shader

https://danielilett.com/2020-04-15-tut5-4-urp-dissolve/

#dissolve #shadergraph

Infinite procedurally generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

https://marian42.de/article/wfc/

Repo: https://github.com/marian42/wavefunctioncollapse

#wfc #wavefunctioncollapse

.NET Memory Performance Analysis

Even though the title mentions analysis, the first part is purely theoretical and has a gentle introduction into memory management on the OS level and a deeper description of memory management and GC in .NET.
Disclaimer: Unity uses a different garbage collector, but still there is plenty of info in the post that can be useful even for working with Unity, as well as it's definitely a good read if you'd like to look a bit around Unity.

https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemoryPerformanceAnalysis.md

#memory #gc