Fact or fiction? Mythbusting 3 common netcode misconceptions

https://blog.unity.com/games/netcode-facts-fiction

#netcode #book

Unity right to left localization

Suggested plugin is not really convenient as you have to add a separate text component for it to work. Another layer of abstraction can help to avoid this hassle

https://habr.com/ru/post/590735/

#localization #rtl

Shader Variant Stripping — Get Rid of That Performance Waste

https://thegamedev.guru/unity-cpu-performance/shader-variants-stripping/

#optimization #shadervariant #stripping

Что такое ECS и с чем его компилят

LeoEcs usage example

https://habr.com/ru/company/mygames/blog/590953/

#leoecs #ecs

Альтернативные методы использования Animation Curves в Unity

https://dtf.ru/gamedev/943158-alternativnye-metody-ispolzovaniya-animation-curves-v-unity

#animationcurve #curve

Unity Raycast Commands: A New Era

Raycasting via jobs

https://thegamedev.guru/unity-cpu-performance/raycast-commands/

#raycast #jobs

Incredibly small finite state machine for .NET languages, written in C#. Useful for UIs and games. Runs in .NET, mono, Xamarin and Unity.

https://github.com/wakingviolet/FSMsharp

#statemachine #pattern

Unity - Introducing System Metrics Mali package

Not a release version, but still allows to be one step closer to native profiling inside the editor without hassle with 3rd party profilers. And generally it becomes easier to profile stuff when you can do everything inside the editor.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/introducing-system-metrics-mali-package.1126178/

#nativeprofiling #profiling #mali

Feature preview: IL2CPP Full Generic Sharing in Unity 2022.1 beta

https://blog.unity.com/technology/feature-preview-il2cpp-full-generic-sharing-in-unity-20221-beta

#il2cpp

Unit of work pattern

Helps with the data concurrency problem

https://youtu.be/5D4qHl3SeoA

#unitofwork #pattern #dataaccess

GPU-Fog-Particles: Textureless fog particles using a highly customizable shader to attenuate noise values.

The technique is the use of surface depth and camera fading. The opacity of the mesh will fade away when near rendered geometry and as the camera approaches. These values can be tweaked to give a fake volumetric effect to what are otherwise just flat / billboard particles facing the camera.
Surface depth fading in this case is commonly known as "soft particles".

https://github.com/MirzaBeig/GPU-Fog-Particles

#fog #softparticles #vfx #camerafading

Easy and effective way of randomizing Particle System textures

https://twitter.com/GerardBelenguer/status/1471515766990118929?s=20

#particles

Создание стилизованного окружения

https://dtf.ru/gamedev/966537-sozdanie-stilizovannogo-okruzheniya-opyt-avtora-assetov-dlya-unity

#stylized #vfx #nature

How to write smarter enums in C#

Java-like enums at a cost that "enum" in this package is a class

https://youtu.be/CEZ6cF8eoeg

#smarterenum #enum

Укрощение батчинга за счет оптимизации масок UI

Mask always tears batching, so the author shows how to use custom shader for Image to make UI using masks batch properly

https://habr.com/ru/company/pixonic/blog/596863/

#ui #optimization #shader #mask

Unit testing code that does File IO

A very basic example of writing unit tests with Moq library. It is surprising how many people in game dev haven't heard of Moq and what it allows to do

https://makolyte.com/csharp-unit-testing-code-that-does-file-io/

#unit #testing #automation #moq

Защита от читеров на примерах в Unity

https://habr.com/ru/post/589899/

#anticheat

Performance Testing in Unity. Step by step tutorial how to get it running

Probably you’ve heard about Performance Testing package made by Unity, but to be fair their documentation sucks and if you follow it straight your might face some issues. So I want to list the steps I did to have it running and especially how to get results from performance tests after run on a real device, because obviously we don’t want to measure performance of the game only inside the editor.

https://gamedev.center/setting-up-unity-performance-testing-package-and-performance-benchmark-reporter/

#performance #testing #benchmark

BitArrayX and LinearHashMapX

Util classes to store 8 bools in one byte and a simple blittable hash map to be used inside IComponentData

https://coffeebraingames.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/bitarrayx-and-linearhashmapx/

#blittable #hashmap #bitarray

Dialog System

Hyperbolica dev tells about the dialog system based on a custom noscripting language. He even created highlighting rules for Notepad++. Could be very convenient when dialogs are written and added to the game not by a programmer. You should consider time needed to create such system and amount of time you could save by removing the need in developer to integrate text assets.

https://youtu.be/DlL_20x0QH8

#dialog #dialogsystem