Six methods for drawing grass with a range of use cases

Video: https://youtu.be/uHDmqfdVkak

Post: https://danielilett.com/2022-12-05-tut6-2-six-grass-techniques/

Repo: https://github.com/daniel-ilett/shaders-6grass

#grass #shader

Megacity Sample

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Megacity-Sample

#ecs #dots

Create spellbinding visual effects with our advanced VFX guide | Unity Blog

https://blog.unity.com/games/create-spellbinding-visual-effects-with-advanced-vfx-guide

#vfx #vfxgraph #book

Unity-Technologies/BackgroundDownload: Plugins for mobile platforms to enable file downloads in background

Use Background Download to download large files in the background on mobile platforms. It lets you fetch files that aren't required immediately while caring less about application lifecycle. Downloads will continue even if your application goes into background or the Operating System closes it (usually due to low memory for foreground tasks).

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

#native #background #downloader

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Command Buffers

High-level info about what it is and how it can be used

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-two

#srp #commandbuffer

Rival - DOTS Character Controller for Unity

Rival is a DOTS character controller built for extensibility & performance, and made with networking in mind. It comes with a samples project that includes a 3D platformer and an online FPS.

Package: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/rival-dots-character-controller-for-unity-225129

Samples: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/rival-samples

#character #controller #dots

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Draw Calls & Batching

This series of posts is like a short paraphrase of catlikecoding SRP tutorials and without code. If you find it hard to start the amazing tutorial by catlikecoding since it is really huge, then you can begin with this one for some short theory to be more in context.

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-three

#srp #drawcall #srpbatcher

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Directional Shadow Rendering

How shadows from a directional light are rendered and common artifacts that appear in that process.

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-four

#shadow #rendering

Building a custom renderer for Unity - Rendering opaques and transparent

https://fazz.dev/articles/building-srp-part-five

#srp #renderqueue

V Rising's Animation Layering in Unity

https://80.lv/articles/v-rising-s-animation-layering-in-unity/

#animation #blendtree #animationlayer

Building better paths while maintaining creative flow with Splines in 2022.2

https://blog.unity.com/technology/building-better-paths-with-splines-in-2022-2

Package forum thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-splines.1345052/

#spline #bezier #curve

unity-stylized-water: A stylized water shader (and material presets) for Unity (built-in RP)

https://github.com/danielshervheim/unity-stylized-water

#water #shader

Trying the LOD crossfading feature of URP 14.0 (Unity 2022.2).

https://twitter.com/_kzr/status/1598676071871762432

#lod #crossfade

Cast Visualizer

Tool extension for the Unity Editor that visualizes all casts and overlap tests in the scene view for fast debugging. It will also display the hit results and requires no code modifications.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/cast-visualizer-167951

#raycast #debug #editortool

It’s all in here: The ultimate guide to creating UI interfaces in Unity

The e-book unpacks both Unity UI, the default solution, and the newer UI Toolkit.

https://blog.unity.com/games/ultimate-guide-to-creating-ui-interfaces

#ui #uitoolkit #book

Asynchronous Image Loader for Unity

ImageConversion.LoadImage and Texture2D.LoadImage are slow when loading large images (greater than 2K) at runtime.
This package aims to offload image loading, image decoding and mipmap generation to other threads. It creates smoother gameplay and reduces lag spike on the Unity main thread when loading large images.

https://github.com/Looooong/UnityAsyncImageLoader

#imageloader #asyncloader #loadimage

How to make the fastest .NET Serializer with .NET 7 / C# 11, case of MemoryPack

A new C#-specific serializer that performs much faster than other serializers and is compatible with Unity

https://neuecc.medium.com/how-to-make-the-fastest-net-serializer-with-net-7-c-11-case-of-memorypack-ad28c0366516

Repo: https://github.com/Cysharp/MemoryPack

#serializer

Unity WebGL Optimizer

This package helps to optimize your game by reducing the build size and increasing the performance

https://github.com/CrazyGamesCom/unity-optimizations-package

#buildsize #optimization

Accelerating player builds with an incremental build pipeline

Faster builds and better build profiling tools available for:
Desktop standalone players, WebGL, Android (2021.2)
iOS/tvOS, all Xbox platforms (2022.1)
All remaining platforms (2022.2)

https://blog.unity.com/technology/accelerating-player-builds-with-incremental-build-pipeline

#build #optimization