Stylized VFX in Unity. Part 1: Step, Smoothstep, Dissolve

A detailed denoscription of the dissolve effect and how step, smoothstep, and remap functions work.

https://torchinsky.me/stylized-vfx-unity-01/

#shadergraph #shader #dissolve #particlesystem

Stylized VFX in Unity. Part 2: Custom Vertex Streams and Custom Data

How to use Custom Vertex Streams and Custom Data in a shader for particle systems

https://torchinsky.me/stylized-vfx-unity-02/

#shadergraph #customvertexstream #customdata #particlesystem

Use style transitions to animate a menu with UI Toolkit

https://gamedev-resources.com/use-style-transitions-to-animate-a-menu/

#uitoolkit

Seamless - Free Node-Based Procedural Texture Builder

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/seamless-procedural-texture-builder-219833

#texture #assets #texturebuilder

Selection Groups - a package made by Unity that provides a more convenient workflow in the editor by allowing to group a number of GameObjects under a common name.
This way, we can do operations on these groups, instead of individual GameObjects.

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.selection-groups

#editortools #selectiongroups

The Operation Result Pattern

https://blog.upperdine.dev/the-operation-result-pattern

#pattern #operationresult

The Worst Bug Ever—Randomly Losing Your Best Players

A great example of solving a critical issue in production with Unity InApp Purchasing. I admire the engineering approach to problem solving the author has shown.
Unit testing third party code to reproduce the issue leads to stunning results. Even Uncle Bob wrote about it a long time ago in his book "Clean Code". Of course it also shows how good infrastructure is important, possibility to get data like real receipts helped to run these tests. And I am pretty sure they store a lot of different stuff that would help to detect issues in various areas of the game, not only IAPs.

https://medium.com/pocket-gems/the-worst-bug-ever-randomly-losing-your-best-players-c4c5d25048c4

#iap #debug

Unity: Avoid Custom "ENABLE_X" Preprocessor Symbols

The problem begins when removing custom symbols which are prefixed with “ENABLE_”.
Unity will not remove custom symbols prefixed with “ENABLE_” from the .csproj files!

https://www.brutalhack.com/blog/unity-avoid-enable-preprocessor-symbols/

#tip #preprocessor

How to draw a circle and other polygons with MeshRenderer in Unity

https://youtu.be/YG-gIX_OvSE

#procedural #pcg #mesh

Dependency Injection for Unity made by the developer of Zenject

UniDi is a Dependency Injection container for Unity and a continuation of Zenject/Extenject. The UniDi is a project that seeks to refactor Zenject in order to:
- Simplify maintenance
- Encourage contributions
- Split the work between multiple developers
- Maximize extensibility

https://github.com/UniDi/UniDi

#di #dicontainer

Object Pool Pattern in Unity

How to use the Unity built-in object pool.

https://blog.devgenius.io/object-pool-pattern-in-unity-f285adea5d5a

#objectpool #optimization #pattern

Wanna learn how to rig objects in Blender? Got you covered

https://twitter.com/quaternius/status/1518725696847290368

#rig

GitHub - alelievr/Mixture: Mixture is a powerful node-based tool crafted in unity to generate all kinds of textures in realtime

https://github.com/alelievr/Mixture

#texture #assets #texturebuilder

Animate runtime progress bars with UI Toolkit

https://gamedev-resources.com/animate-runtime-progress-bars-with-ui-toolkit/

#uitoolkit #progressbar

Talking to your unmanaged code efficiently from Unity using P/Invoke

Cleaner code when working with native libs

https://medium.com/baracoda-engineering/talking-to-your-unmanaged-code-efficiently-from-unity-using-p-invoke-software-design-edition-6858147bde09

#native #pinvoke #dll

Async FSM using UniTask

https://www.jussituomi.com/posts/async-fsm-unitask/

#unitask #state #pattern #fsm

Free Potion Bottle Models

The post also has references to shaders used: Stylized Glass and Fake Liquid.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-potion-52073394

#liquid #shader #assets #bottle

While selecting multiple objects you can write L(startPos, endPos) in any position field to set those objects with equal distances.

No need to write a custom editor noscript to lerp positions of selected objects.

https://twitter.com/M4nusPotax/status/1521472254177349633

#editortip #tip

Making an After-Image Mesh effect(Updated for URP)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/making-after-for-58726256

#vfx #trail #meshtrail

Framework Design Guidelines | Microsoft Docs

Even though the noscript mentions framework design this article consists of many sub pages that give advice on how to structure your code and use C# features. So it can be applicable not only to writing a framework, but any code, even a game in Unity

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/

#architecture #systemdesign

Heap, Stack and Garbage Collector — A practical guide to .NET memory management system

A good refresher before an interview. GC is different in Unity, but I have faced myself questions about .NET GC during interviews to Unity dev positions, so can be helpful too

https://andresantarosa.medium.com/heap-stack-e-garbage-collector-a-practical-guide-to-net-memory-management-system-7e60bbadf199

#memory #gc #heap #stack #interview