Using Indirect Multipliers To Balance Lighting Costs And Results

https://vintay.medium.com/using-indirect-multipliers-to-balance-lighting-costs-and-results-d75fa16fef8e

#lighting #optimization

How to find the minimum enclosing circle of a set of points. It can be used to dynamically figure out where to center your camera and with how much zoom to keep everything you want in view.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/x1ei22/how_to_find_the_minimum_enclosing_circle_of_a_set/

Source code: https://pastebin.com/b3dDL7Ju

#enclose #circle #algorithm

Art production for games: Best practices and optimization

A very good list to follow. And I like that the author mentions that every solution has pros and cons to consider. E.g. tip 5 may go poorly without using sprite atlas for a splitted asset. So always tune solutions for your use case.

https://medium.com/ironsource-levelup/art-production-for-games-best-practices-and-optimization-5b651a167be8

#techart #assets #import #optimization #buildsize

Unity-RTS-Selection: Unity RTS-style unit selection

https://github.com/lexonegit/Unity-RTS-Selection

#rts #unitselection

Have you ever wanted to smoothly go from perspective to orthographic? [Code in the comments]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/wxpdsd/have_you_ever_wanted_to_smoothly_go_from/

#camera #transition

Car Paint Shader: Thin-Film Interference

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2017/10/27/carpaint-shader-thin-film-interference/#more-6823

#shader #vfx #interference

A simple fog of war effect in Unity, github repo available

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/x554i9/i_created_this_simple_fow_of_war_effect_in_unity/

Repo: https://github.com/platinio/FowSample

#fogofwar

World position reconstruction from depth texture for image effects/blit.

https://twitter.com/Cyanilux/status/1269353975058501636

A use case example: https://cyangamedev.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/fog-plane-shader-breakdown/

#worldposition #depthtexture #shadergraph

The performance boost for LINQ in .NET 7

An example how vectorization improves performance

https://youtu.be/zCKwlgtVLnQ

#optimization

Graphy - Ultimate FPS Counter - Stats Monitor & Debugger (Unity)

Graphy is the ultimate, easy to use, feature packed FPS counter, stats monitor and debugger for your Unity project.

https://github.com/Tayx94/graphy

#graph #fpscounter

URP Toon Shader

https://github.com/ChiliMilk/URP_Toon

#urp #toon #shader

VFX Breakdown : Lightning Particles + Shader(Graph)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/vfx-breakdown-71191108

#vfx #lightning #shadergraph

Do I need to dispose of Tasks? - .NET Parallel Programming

Short answer: No.
The only time you may want to dispose a Task is when you are explicitly using IAsyncResult.AsyncWaitHandle which causes an allocation of a disposable resource. But even in that case you may not bother disposing it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/do-i-need-to-dispose-of-tasks/

#tpl #async

Retro3DPipeline: A minimal example of a custom render pipeline with the Retro3D shader.

https://github.com/keijiro/Retro3DPipeline

#srp #renderpipeline

Simplex Derivatives

How to calculate derivatives of simplex noise and use them to generate normal and tangent vectors for procedurally generated meshes. Allows offloading the work from the main thread, since built-in RecalculateNormals() method runs only on the main thread.

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/pseudorandom-surfaces/simplex-derivatives/

#normals #jobsystem #tangents #pcg

How to fix light bleeding

#lighting #shadow

Supermassive black hole tutorial

https://kelvinvanhoorn.com/2021/04/20/supermassive-black-hole-tutorial/

#shader #blackhole

Temporal Anti-Aliasing(TAA) for Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline

Unity's default Temporal Anti-Aliasing(TAA) has some problems in URP. Natively, URP does not support TAA while Unity PostProcess V2 does support. However, PostProcess V2's support fails for TAA because it cannot jitter the camera in the ScriptableRenderPipeline

https://github.com/sienaiwun/TAA_Unity_URP

#taa #antialiasing #urp #renderfeature

My take on shaders: Stencil shader (Antichamber effect)

https://halisavakis.com/my-take-on-shaders-stencil-shader-antichamber-effect/

#shader #stencil

Doctor Strange portal

https://youtu.be/gdGpTaFQsiY

#vfx #portal

NativeStringCollections: The toolset to parse text files using C# JobSystem on Unity.

Claimed to load big files 3 times faster than C# standard File.ReadAllLines(). And can load files in parallel.

https://github.com/kawai125/NativeStringCollections

#parsing #file #burst