You might be thinking about shader performance wrong

Another rant on how memory access is slow, but has absolutely stunning animations quality, which the author made in Unity. Not really sure if this approach is faster than doing the same in some video editor, but definitely looks awesome

https://youtu.be/7YPPFIqUN84

#gpumemory #performance

A basic addressables tutorial

https://youtu.be/LBOAMYHU2mg

#addressables

An interesting benchmark of multiple Where vs && in Linq

#linq #performance

Software renderer — 1: матчасть

https://habr.com/en/post/243011/

#math #rendering

Create the ScriptableData data object if none is set (in the same folder as the prefab) extension for MonoBehaviour.
Use OdinInspector's [InlineEditor] attribute, to show the contents of the linked object in a Foldout.

https://twitter.com/noio_games/status/1412705091639992320

#noscriptableobject #workflow #editortool

OpenFracture: Open source mesh slicing/fracturing utility for Unity

https://github.com/dgreenheck/OpenFracture

#meshdeformation #slice #fracture

UnityIconDownloader

An editor tool to download ready-to-use icons and images without leaving the editor

https://github.com/dogramacigokhan/GDPackages/tree/iconDownloader_v2/UnityIconDownloader

#editortool #icondownloader

Sugar considered harmful

Another rant on syntax sugar. As always conclusion is "think before using anything".

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/sugar-considered-harmful-535598f07853

#cleancode

Intro to Jobs/Burst/DoD.

How performance of a common MonoBehaviour approach can be improved by x200 with jobs and burst. Of course it's kind of artificial example, but on the large scale performance gains look awesome. And the author is a real "heavyweight" engineer from Unity, definitely worth checking his other posts.

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/intro-to-jobs-burst-dod-66c6b81c017f

#jobs #burst #performance #dod

Просто в теории, тяжело на деле

Determine if a point is inside a polygon. Author gives some solution, but I remember seeing Freya's tweet about using the winding number method, which I find to be better and cover more edge cases

https://habr.com/en/post/645345/

Solution: https://twitter.com/FreyaHolmer/status/1232826293902888960?s=20

#windingnumber

Stalling a GPU

- Remember that a shader is more like a bunch of jobs than serial GPU code, even though the syntax looks like serial code
- Avoid introducing extra dependencies between those jobs, and understand the dependencies you have as they can hint to additional optimizations
- The cost of certain operations can be completely masked by this parallelism.
- The cost of all texture samples are not the same

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/stalling-a-gpu-7faac66b11b9

#shader #optimization

How to unit test a class that uses static API

Unit tests validate code in isolation, but if it uses statics you cannot mock this dependency, therefore a subject under test cannot be properly isolated and unit tested. This trick makes the code testable, as well as introduces an important principle that improves your architecture by making it cleaner and more flexible.

https://gamedev.center/how-to-unit-test-a-class-that-uses-static-api/

#testing #cleancode #architecture #testrunner

Fish-Net: Networking Evolved

Claimed to be AAA open source networking solution

https://fish-networking.gitbook.io/docs/

#netcode #networking

4 tips for refactoring your code for readability

As I work in a big team on a game-service I cannot emphasize more how these principles are extremely important:
- Consistency
- Conventions
- Intent
- Brevity
Well, even if you work alone it still applies, since most likely you will read it many times in the future. These principles will save you a bunch of time later.

https://youtu.be/7oZBfpI_hxI

#cleancode #readability #refactoring

Const Strings – a very convenient way to shoot yourself in the foot

Const can be dangerous if you have your code base split into DLLs and one references consts of another

https://www.stum.de/2009/01/14/const-strings-a-very-convenient-way-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot

#const #readonly #dll

Post-Processing-Scan: A 3D scan/sonar-like post-processing effect for Unity. Essentially a visualization of a spherical signed distance field (SDF).

https://github.com/MirzaBeig/Post-Processing-Scan

#scan #vfx

A project containing demo scenes showing off the Inverse dynamics features available with Articulation Bodies

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/unity-inverse-dynamics-demo

#inversedynamic #physics

Automatic LOD generation + scene optimization

AutoLOD is primarily a framework for enabling automatic post-processing of geometrical model assets on import to create simplified levels-of-detail (LOD).

Repo: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/AutoLOD
Initial release blogpost: https://blog.unity.com/technology/unity-labs-autolod-experimenting-with-automatic-performance-improvements

#lod #optimization #rendering

Branching on a GPU

- Do not fear branching on a GPU, in many cases it’s completely fine
- Know what you are branching on, and what you are branching around.
- Avoid branching on high frequency data and creating divergent pixels
- Branching around textures requires special care
- Visualize the data so you can see exactly what the GPU is doing
- Order your branches from most likely to cull to least likely if possible.

https://medium.com/@jasonbooth_86226/branching-on-a-gpu-18bfc83694f2

#gpu #shader #branching

Editor Iteration Profiler (EIP)

Monitor and capture profiling data from assembly reload, assembly compilation, and enter playmode.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/introducing-the-editor-iteration-profiler.908390/

#editorprofiler #profiler #editortool

A library to help make command line argument parsing easy

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityOptions

#cli #commandline