Statistics matter: How Data Impacts Play

How excessive stats can harm player experience.

http://www.hermanelectro.com/posts/positive_negative_stats.html

#gamedesign #stats

Improving job system performance scaling in 2022.2 – part 2: Overhead | Unity Blog

https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/improving-job-system-performance-2022-2-part-2

#jobsystem #multithreading

Text To TextMesh Pro Upgrade Tool for Unity

Helps you upgrade the Text, InputField, Dropdown and TextMesh objects in your projects to their TextMesh Pro variants. It also upgrades the noscripts so that e.g. Text variables in those noscripts become TMP_Text variables. Then, it reconnects the references to the upgraded components (e.g. if a public variable was referencing an upgraded Text component, it will now reference the corresponding TextMeshProUGUI component).

https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityTextToTextMeshProUpgradeTool

#textmeshpro #editortool

How Async/Await Really Works in C#

A deep-dive into the history leading to, the design decisions behind, and implementation details of async/await in C# and .NET.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-async-await-really-works/

#async #interview

Unity Shadow Volume Generator (Stencil Shadows): Library for generating sharp shadow volumes in Unity3D.

Shadow volumes are recognized by the CRISP and ACCURATE shadows that they cast. It essentially finds the outline of an object from the lights perspective, and then creates a mesh that casts into the scene.

https://github.com/rhedgeco/UnityShadowVolumeGenerator

#rendererfeature #shadow #shadowvolume #stencilshadow

QuadSphere: Unity QuadSphere with Level of Detail subdivision

A similar technique is used in Kerbal Space Program 2 to render planets with level of detail support for better performance

https://github.com/bicarbon8/QuadSphere

#quadsphere

Frequently Asked Question about marketing your game on Steam

https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/03/14/frequently-asked-question-about-marketing-your-game/

#marketing #steam

Runtime authoring in projects using ECS for Unity

An overview of data modes that are claimed to improve the workflow with game objects' and entities' data in the editor and playmode.

https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/runtime-authoring-in-projects-using-ecs

#dots #baking #authoring #datamodes

Practical Optimizations

This is a long video, but it's worth watching. The speaker is a great engineer who shares an example of optimization using DOD (Data-oriented design) in Kerbal Space Program 2. Obviously, this optimization technique is not suitable or needed in every game, but when it fits, it gives amazing results.

https://youtu.be/NAVbI1HIzCE

#performance #optimization #dod #jobsystem

Unity Bounding Volume Heirachy (BVH)

It is used for sorting objects that occupy volume and answering geometric queries about them; such as ray, box, and sphere intersection.

https://github.com/rossborchers/UnityBoundingVolumeHeirachy

#bvh #spacial #dsa

Implementing satisfying stairs for your 2D top-down game

https://michaelbitzos.com/devblog/implementing-stairs-in-2d-top-down-games

#stairs #topdown

Introduction To Unity Unit Testing: Learn all about the Unity Test Framework and how to set up Unit Tests in your Unity projects

https://www.kodeco.com/38240193-introduction-to-unity-unit-testing

#unittest #coverage #codecoverage

Procedural 2D Outline Shader (Tutorial w/ Code + Nodes)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/124mtz8/procedural_2d_outline_shader_tutorial_w_code_nodes/

#outline2d #outline #shader

Unity Image Loader: Asynchronous image loading from remote or local destination.

Features:
✔️ Async loading from Web or Local ImageLoader.LoadSprite(imageURL);
✔️ Memory and Disk caching - tries to load from memory first, then from disk
✔️ Dedicated thread for disk operations
✔️ Avoids loading same image multiple times simultaneously, task waits for completion the first and just returns loaded image if at least one cache layer activated
✔️ Auto set to Image ImageLoader.SetSprite(imageURL, image);
✔️ Auto set to SpriteRenderer ImageLoader.SetSprite(imageURL, spriteRenderer);
✔️ Debug level for logging ImageLoader.settings.debugLevel = DebugLevel.Error;

https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-ImageLoader

#imageloader #loadimage

The Art of Unity Optimization

A similar approach to the one I have shared above recently but on everyone's favorite rotating cubes sample. Still recommend to watch the previous video, but this one shorter and shows similar techniques to increase performance when you have many entities.

https://youtu.be/6mNj3M1il_c

#compute #jobsystem #dod #optimization

Client-Side-Prediction: A step by step guide on how to do client side prediction with non physics based movement

https://github.com/DoctorWh012/Client-Side-Prediction

#netcode #prediction #lagcompensation

unity-hierarchy-folders: Specialized folder objects for Unity Hierarchy.

With big scenes you might want to have game objects organized in some way. However using just empty game objects for it might lead to performance issues as the engine won't be able to parallelize transforms processing, as Unity manages them on hierarchies level.
This tool helps prevent these issues by removing all overhead during the build process.

https://github.com/xsduan/unity-hierarchy-folders

#editortools #hierarchy

In-game Debug Console for Unity 3D

This asset helps you see debug messages (logs, warnings, errors, exceptions) runtime in a build (also assertions in editor) and execute commands using its built-in console (you can setup your own methods to execute with custom commands).

https://github.com/yasirkula/UnityIngameDebugConsole

#console #debug

UnityLauncherPro: Unity Hub Alternative Project Launcher with time saving features

Might come in handy given how Unity Hub is getting slower and slower, and the incident that happened last year when a malicious lib was used by Unity Hub.

https://github.com/unitycoder/UnityLauncherPro

#hub

FastScriptReload: Hot Reload implementation for Unity. Iterate on code insanely fast without breaking play session.

Was a paid asset, now it's open source

https://github.com/handzlikchris/FastScriptReload

#hotreload #editortool

The waterfall tutorial in Amplify Shader Editor

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/12bggr6/were_proud_to_share_the_waterfall_we_just_built/

#vfx #shadergraph