Everyday Unity

10 things you need to be doing in Unity

A list of basic tips by a guy who works on a lot of prototypes:
- Serializing components
- Drawing scene gizmos
- Initialization order
- Stop using public fields
- Mod to loop collections
- PlayClipAtPoint
- Limit extern calls with SetPositionAndRotation
- Operator overloading
- Composition
- Don't use lazy naming conventions

https://youtu.be/Ic5ux-tpkCE

#tips

Advanced Editor scripting hacks to save you time

Part 1: https://blog.unity.com/technology/advanced-editor-scripting-hacks-to-save-you-time-part-1

Part 2: https://blog.unity.com/technology/advanced-editor-scripting-hacks-to-save-you-time-part-2

#editortool #assetpipeline

Force field VFX breakdown

https://twitter.com/unitygames/status/1536770571194798083

#vfx #forcefield #shadergraph

Unity-Dependencies-Hunter: This tool finds unreferenced assets by scanning all files in your Unity project.

https://github.com/AlexeyPerov/Unity-Dependencies-Hunter

#editortool #assets

Don't do that: What to avoid when soft launching a game

TL;DR: have a sound strategy and plan for metrics to test and what features affect which metrics

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/dont-do-that-what-to-avoid-when-soft-launching-a-game

#marketing #softlaunch

Top 10 Dotnet Exception Anti-Patterns in C#

- Exceptions should be reserved for the truly exceptional
- Exceptions should include all information needed to react to them
- Exceptions should only be caught where they can be appropriately responded to
- Do not catch Exception or force others to catch it by throwing Exception
- Exceptions add to your cognitive workload as a developer and slow down your application and should be avoided when possible

https://newdevsguide.com/2022/11/06/exception-anti-patterns-in-csharp/

#exception #errorhandling

Shader Tutorial: Enter The Matrix

How to rotate uv in a shader

https://www.patreon.com/posts/shader-tutorial-73605548

#shader #uv #rotation

Generic types are for arguments, specific types are for return values

https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/generic-types-arguments-specific-types-return-values/

#cleancode #abstraction

Official - Lightmapping Troubleshooting Guide

https://forum.unity.com/threads/lightmapping-troubleshooting-guide.1340936/

#lightmap

Batching SkinnedMeshRenderer - 1000 Zombies over 60 FPS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGVlzAcWgA

#instancing #skinnedmesh #animation

Dual Blur and Its Implementation in Unity

An algorithm claimed to have a lot less texture reads and writes compared to other methods.

https://medium.com/@uwa4d/dual-blur-and-its-implementation-in-unity-c2cd77c90771

#blur #posteffect

UnityTexelShaders: URP Texel Lighting

The aim of this project is to make late-1990-early-2000 game graphics, but with all-new look. Think of it as of half-life 1 software renderer with pixelated PBR.

https://github.com/keeborgue/UnityTexelShaders

More info on the effect: https://forum.unity.com/threads/the-quest-for-efficient-per-texel-lighting.529948/

#texelspaceshading #shader #urp

NullTale/SoCreator: Create ScriptableObject by type from Unity Editor.

Can come in quite handy when you have a lot of scriptable objects in the project. Which can be pretty common given that configs are better to be stored in SO since it doesn't generate garbage when being loaded. And SO loading is faster as it's a memcpy call under the hood.

https://github.com/NullTale/SoCreator

Info about SO is taken from a great talk at Unite

#scriptableobject #editortool

keijiro/StickShow: GPU instancing with RenderMeshInstanced

StickShow is a Unity sample project showing how to use Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced with a custom shader graph and per-instance data.

https://github.com/keijiro/StickShow

#instancing #rendermesh

UiParticles: Unity ParticleSystem for built-in UI

Unity ParticleSystem for built-in UI.
Full compatibility with Unity UI Canvas: sorting order, masking, UI shaders etc...
Size and speed of particles are in canvas-based coordinate system

https://github.com/ken48/UnityUiParticles

#ui #particles

GpuTrail: ComputeShader implementation trails for Unity

https://github.com/fuqunaga/GpuTrail

#computeshader #trail

Making AnimationEvent safe for the CoreCLR garbage collector

https://blog.unity.com/technology/making-animationevent-safe-for-the-coreclr-garbage-collector

#marshalling #animationevent #performance

Unity HTTP Debugger

We always had a similar, but smaller solution on any project that had client-server communication, as it makes debugging a lot easier. And altering responses opens up a new way of testing and reproducing bugs. Of course there are standalone apps likes Charles for this, but a tailored editor tool is more convenient in my opinion.

https://github.com/ErnSur/Unity-Http-Debugger

#debug #http #editortool

All the VFX breakdowns we’ve made in the past (new ones are on the way!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/yd78np/all_the_vfx_breakdowns_weve_made_in_the_past_new/

#shader #vfx

My take on shaders: Compute shaders

A simple vertex painter sample

https://halisavakis.com/my-take-on-shaders-compute-shaders/

#computeshader