The magic of Material Property Blocks

Use it in situations where you want to draw multiple objects with the same material, but slightly different properties. For example, if you want to slightly change the color of each mesh drawn. Changing the render state is not supported.

http://thomasmountainborn.com/2016/05/25/materialpropertyblocks/

#mpb #materialpropertyblock #optimization

Patterns & Practices for efficiently handling C# async/await cancel processing and timeouts

https://neuecc.medium.com/patterns-practices-for-efficiently-handling-c-async-await-cancel-processing-and-timeouts-b419ce5f69a4

#async #cancellation

Why I Fell in Love With Local Functions in C#

Lambdas vs Local Functions

https://medium.com/the-unpopular-opinions-of-a-senior-developer/why-i-fell-in-love-with-local-functions-in-c-c41931c37a35

#csharp #lambda #localfunction

.NET Memory Performance Analysis

Even though the title mentions analysis, the first part is purely theoretical and has a gentle introduction into memory management on the OS level and a deeper description of memory management and GC in .NET.
Disclaimer: Unity uses a different garbage collector, but still there is plenty of info in the post that can be useful even for working with Unity, as well as it's definitely a good read if you'd like to look a bit around Unity.

https://github.com/Maoni0/mem-doc/blob/master/doc/.NETMemoryPerformanceAnalysis.md

#memory #gc

Infinite procedurally generated city with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

https://marian42.de/article/wfc/

Repo: https://github.com/marian42/wavefunctioncollapse

#wfc #wavefunctioncollapse

Dissolve Effect in Shader Graph and URP
Breaking down a world-space dissolve shader

https://danielilett.com/2020-04-15-tut5-4-urp-dissolve/

#dissolve #shadergraph

Unity Traffic Simulation

A Unity asset that lets you easily simulate very simple traffic into your scene.

https://github.com/mchrbn/unity-traffic-simulation

#traffic

Compute Shaders: Grass Rendering

The title is a bit misleading, as the author still uses geometry shader to generate grass blades, so it doesn't work on Metal. But it is still an interesting example as the compute shader is used to calculate multiple objects interaction with grass.

https://medium.com/dotcrossdot/compute-shaders-grass-rendering-6916a9dd008e

#grass #compute #shader

Frame-specific attacks in Unity

There are a lot of examples where it can be used, but basically it gives more control over animations which gives us more possibilities to implement different features.

http://strangewire.blogspot.com/2019/09/frame-specific-attacks-in-unity.html

#frameattacks #attacks

Vertex Displacement

How to displace vertices and recalculate normals manually in a surface shader.

https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/015-wobble-displacement/

#shader #vertexdisplacement #deformation #normals

UDP vs. TCP

When writing a network game, we first need to choose what type of socket to use. Do we use TCP sockets, UDP sockets or a mixture of both?

https://gafferongames.com/post/udp_vs_tcp/

#udp #tcp #networking #netcode

UnsafeCollections

This project contains various collections that perform no managed memory allocation. It alleviates GC (Garbage Collector) pressure useful for usecases such as Unity.

https://github.com/DennisCorvers/UnsafeCollections

#collection #unsafe #nativecollection

Move on over to the Universal Render Pipeline with our advanced guide

https://blog.unity.com/technology/move-on-over-to-the-universal-render-pipeline-with-our-advanced-guide

#urp #book

KNN: Fast K-Nearest Neighbour Library for Unity DOTS. It uses K-D trees to speed up queries.

https://github.com/ArthurBrussee/KNN

#search #nearest #neighbour

Intro To Raymarching

Raymarching implementation using shader

https://www.patreon.com/posts/64940246

#raymarching #shader

Game Math: Dot Product, Rulers, And Bouncing Balls

The dot product is a simple yet extremely useful mathematical tool. It encodes the relationship between two vectors’ magnitudes and directions into a single value. It is useful for computing projection, reflection, lighting, and so much more.

https://allenchou.net/2020/01/dot-product-projection-reflection/

#math #dotproduct #projection

Simple Roads

A free kit for building any kind of road. From curvy race tracks, to busy city junctions. Supports elevations and ramps so your cities and tracks don't have to be flat and boring.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/roadways/simple-roads-212360

#road #roadsystem

Unity Programming Patterns

A collection of programming patterns in Unity with examples when to use them. These are primarily from the book "Game Programming Patterns," but translated from C++ to C#

https://github.com/Habrador/Unity-Programming-Patterns

#pattern

UnityTutorials-RTS: The code for series of tutorials on how to make a real-time stategy (RTS) game in Unity

https://github.com/MinaPecheux/UnityTutorials-RTS

#rts #strategy

Sidekick: Inspect all fields, properties and methods in Unity editor, fire methods and events, inspect hidden objects

https://github.com/sabresaurus/Sidekick

#editortools