Everyday Unity

Making string marshaling safe for the CoreCLR garbage collector

https://blog.unity.com/technology/making-string-marshaling-safe-for-coreclr-garbage-collector

#marshal

A simple color ramp (plus posterized reflections)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1036wn8/a_simple_color_ramp_plus_posterized_reflections/

Shader graph: https://imgur.io/gallery/JGYSEF1

#sharergraph #toon #colorramp

How to build Hot Reload For Unity

2 hot reload tools have been released recently (shared the previous one here before).
The author of this one also provided a tutorial with basics of the hot reload implementation.

https://immersivevrtools.com/Blog/how-to-build-hot-reload-functionality-for-unity

Repo: https://github.com/handzlikchris/HotReloadForUnity#fast-script-reload---ready-made-tool-is-available-on-the-asset-store

#hotreload

Floating Origin in Unity

How to mitigate floating point precision issues when dealing with large world games

https://manuel-rauber.com/2022/04/06/floating-origin-in-unity/

#floatingorigin

Demystifying Floating Point Precision

Floating point numbers have limited precision. You have likely encountered bugs where things start breaking after too much time has elapsed, or after something has moved too far from the origin.
This post aims to show you how to answer the questions:
What precision do I have at a number?
When will I hit precision issues?

https://blog.demofox.org/2017/11/21/floating-point-precision/

#float

Addressables: Planning and best practices

A helpful overview of what Addressables is (hope everyone knows it by this point anyway) and how to use it effectively. Provides strategies when and how to organize your content. As well as handy cheatsheets for a few common use cases:
- A mobile game with frequent content updates
- A standalone, self-contained desktop or console game
- A VR game built for Meta Quest 2

https://blog.unity.com/technology/addressables-planning-and-best-practices

#addressables #assetbundle

Energy Shield Hologram in Unity Shader Graph

A really great post that brakes down a complex shader into the list of smaller effects

https://danielilett.com/2023-02-09-tut6-3-energy-shield/

#urp #shadergraph #forcefield

CustomSRP: Many mini-custom-SRPs showing how to achieve different things when creating your own SRP. Only SRP Core package is needed.

Also provides a sample of RenderGraph usage.

https://github.com/cinight/CustomSRP

#srp #rendergraph

Hot reload: a tool which lets you skip all compile times in Unity

It uses a custom C# compiler integration, and only compiles the code that was changed. That output is used to patch up the existing C# code while it's running. It works both inside and outside of playmode.
There shouldn't be any serious risk as you can always just recompile the code normally to reset any bad changes which may have failed to apply (i.e. when using some unsupported features).
It doesn't currently support changes that would require vtable modifications like having a type implement another interface or adding an override to an existing virtual method. There are some other unsupported features that can be checked in the docs, but generally it covers a lot of use cases and can be really useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/10v66xi/we_just_released_a_free_tool_which_lets_you_skip/

Website: https://hotreload.net/

#editortool #hotreload

keijiro/SpriteOutlineFx: Outline image effect for 2D sprites

https://github.com/keijiro/SpriteOutlineFx

#outline #spriteoutline

Tips and Tricks for good platforming games (with example)

All or the majority of these tricks are always used in most of successful platformers out there for many years. Make sure to check this out if you develop your own platformer game.

https://www.davetech.co.uk/gamedevplatformer

#gamedesign #platformer

ui-circle-segmented: Custom graphic for uGUI, Circle splitted to segments, with skip offset, sprite round,global offset, circle-spaced gradient

https://github.com/mitay-walle/com.mitay-walle.ui-circle-segmented

#ui #circular #progressbar

Unity-AnimatorTransitionCopier: A simple tool to copy paste transitions in Animator editor

https://github.com/qwe321qwe321qwe321/Unity-AnimatorTransitionCopier

#animator #editortool

unity-toolbar-extender: Extend the Unity Toolbar with your own Editor UI code.

Can come quite in handy, for instance when you have to frequently switch between multiple scenes. However I prefer to create shortcuts for frequent repetitive actions.

https://github.com/marijnz/unity-toolbar-extender

#editortool #toolbar

Unity-Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics: SPH in the Unity engine implemented in three different ways using MonoBehaviour, Entity-Component-System, and ComputeShader

https://github.com/Gornhoth/Unity-Smoothed-Particle-Hydrodynamics

#hydrodynamics #computeshader #ecs

Everything you need to know about Memory Profiler 1.0.0

https://blog.unity.com/technology/everything-you-need-to-know-about-memory-profiler

#memory #profiler #optimization

PackageEditor: A tool for Unity to edit a git package within the package manager

The package editor is a tool that allows you to edit a package that is installed using a git URL via the Unity Package Manager by creating a local copy of the package.
This allows you to edit the package in the project, and then push the changes to the source repository. Then once you are done, you can revert to the original "production" package using this tool.

https://github.com/Hibzz-Games/Hibzz.PackageEditor

#editortool #package