How QUIC Is Displacing TCP for Speed and Security

A short history of http to understand what difference each version has and why updates were needed as well as latest improvements with 3.0 and QUIC

https://engineeringatscale.substack.com/p/how-quic-is-displacing-tcp-for-speed

#network

ProjectAuditor: Project Auditor is an experimental static analysis tool for Unity Projects.

The tool made by Unity field engineers who help studios optimize their games.
Project Auditor is a static analysis tool that analyzes assets, settings, and noscripts of the Unity project and produces a report containing: Code and Settings diagnostics, the last BuildReport, and assets information

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

#optimization #analysis #auditor

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/programming/2023/02/21/exponential-smoothing.html

#smoothing #math

Unity-Style-Guide: This article contains ideas for setting up a projects structure and naming convention for noscripts and assets in Unity

A great place to start creating your own project style guide. You can tweak it from the start, or take as is and tailor for your needs as your project grows.

https://github.com/justinwasilenko/Unity-Style-Guide

#style #rules

Simple Water Tutorial: I've made a simple water plane material with some common features/techniques shared below. 🫧 + Depth Fog + Animated Normals "Refraction" + Underwater Blur (nodes for fog + refraction in 🧵)

https://twitter.com/TheMirzaBeig/status/1728560272405606558

#water #shadergraph

DebugUI

A framework for building debugging tools built on Unity UI Toolkit.

https://github.com/AnnulusGames/DebugUI

#debug #tools #uitoolkit

How we got one million players to give a dam about Timberborn

A huge write-up on how developers achieved the success starting from the alpha version up to the latest content updates.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/marketing/deep-dive-how-we-got-one-million-players-to-give-a-dam-about-timberborn

#marketing

C# Meta programming with Unity

How to use source generators that open up possibilities for automating many aspects of software development, such as generating code templates, automatically creating APIs based on metadata, and implementing repetitive design patterns without the need for manual copying and pasting of code.

https://vij.app/c-meta-programming-with-unity/

More examples: https://github.com/dr-vij/UTools-Generators

#sourcegen #roslyn

UNITY NATIVE: ANDROID ASYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONS AND THREADING

Discover common pitfalls and best practices for threading in Unity when working with native Android plugins in this great post. Learn from examples of typical mistakes and how to implement threading correctly.

https://medium.com/@playtika-tech-ai/unity-native-android-asynchronous-operations-and-threading-9eb07488b5cc

#native #thread #android

DOTS-Manual

Right now, it only contains information about sync points, which are crucial for performance in an archetype ECS implementation. Therefore, it's important to understand what leads to sync points in Entities. The manual is planned to be extended, so stay tuned for more later.

Update: Info about System dependencies was added

https://github.com/bustedbunny/DOTS-Manual

#dots #ecs

UNITY NATIVE: ANDROID STUDIO TOOLS

How to analyze the contents of .apk, .aab, .arr, or .jar archive files and to check Android dependencies.

https://medium.com/@playtika-tech-ai/unity-native-android-studio-tools-b3eb4509a263

#native #profiling #analyze

Grass System Extension: Cutting

https://www.patreon.com/posts/grass-system-100668614

#shader #grass #cut

AnnulusGames/UGUIAnimationSamples: A sample project that includes implementation examples of UI animation for Unity UI (uGUI) using LitMotion and UniTask.

The repo with samples how to use LitMotion tweener, but can be used as an inspo and easily ported to any other tweener.

https://github.com/AnnulusGames/UGUIAnimationSamples

#tween #sample

AnnulusGames/Alchemy: Provides a rich set of editor extensions and serialization extensions for Unity

Another great package by Annulus Games - open source Odin alternative.

https://github.com/AnnulusGames/Alchemy

#inspector

LWGUI: A Lightweight, Flexible, Powerful Shader GUI System for Unity.

https://github.com/JasonMa0012/LWGUI

#inspector #shader

Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using

Switch, restore, sparse checkout, worktree, bisect

https://martinheinz.dev/blog/109

#git

UnityDomainReloadHelper

A couple of attributes that help when Domain Reloading is disabled, which significantly decreases the time it takes for Unity to play a scene. By default, Unity provides the RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod attribute to assist, but it can be a little cumbersome.

I encourage you to write code in a way that allows you to turn off the domain reload upon entering play mode. It greatly speeds up the workflow even for my small pet projects. I have also worked on projects in production that have more than 1k assembly definitions, and reloading takes ages, so entering play mode was painfully slow and without this option turned off it was really hard to work.

https://github.com/joshcamas/unity-domain-reload-helper

#domainreload #attribute #editortools

How to implement multi-threaded frustum culling in Unity C#

Unity does this process under the hood already, but for some special cases with a custom renderer it might be needed.

https://www.pinwheelstud.io/post/frustum-culling-in-unity-csharp

#jobsystem #culling

How To Fix Deep Link/Push Notifications Crashes On Unity iOS after Apple Privacy Manifests update (and Why Software Design Matters)

A nasty crash appeared after the update from Unity 2021.3.31f1 to 2021.3.36f1, and the update was required due to the Apple privacy update and the introduction of Privacy manifest files since the support for it was added relatively recently. So you either have already encountered this crash or would encounter it soon if you publish your games to the App Store and use Facebook SDK and deep links as the deadline for this update is really close.
Strangely it was reproduced only on iOS 15 and 16, while iOS 17 was okay.
It turned out to be an interesting investigation, so I wanted to share the details with you.

It's funny how the regex to replace the generated UnityAppController.mm in FB SDK has been sitting there since 2015 and only now fired so badly causing a crash on a subset of devices. And it happened due to the UnityAppController.mm template being updated in one of the newer Unity versions.

And it's a perfect example of "Unknown Unknowns" discussed in "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout. Unknown unknowns increase the complexity of your system, but when it happens between 2 third parties it becomes multitudes times harder to track and resolve.
I definitely recommend the book.

According to the issue tracker, it also happens in 2022 and 2023, so now you know what to do if your app starts crashing on iOS after Unity update.

https://gamedev.center/how-to-fix-deep-link-push-notifications-crashes-on-unity-ios-and-why-software-design-matters/

#crash #ios

Noisy Nodes: Adds various noise generation nodes to Unity Shader Graph, including 3D noise nodes.

https://github.com/JimmyCushnie/Noisy-Nodes

#shadergraph #noise