ECS Network Racing: ECS multiplayer racing sample to showcase using Unity Entities and netcode with best practices

Features:
Netcode for Entities
Baking
Idiomatic Foreach
Aspects
ISystem
Unity Physics
Jobs
Burst
Vivox

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ECS-Network-Racing-Sample

#ecs #netcode #sample

(BIRP)World Position Effects Part 2: Box/Square Shape and Multiple Interactors

https://www.patreon.com/posts/birp-world-part-78327175

#shader #interactor

Inspecting memory with the new Memory Profiler package

An example of a few key workflows when inspecting your game with the memory profiler.

https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/inspecting-memory-with-the-new-memory-profiler-package

#memory #profiling

Stylized Water Shader

A tutorial of an amazing quality that contains a detailed step-by-step description how to achieve stylized water look.
It contains info on how to create a water shader with:
depth-based colors
refraction
surface and intersection foam
lighting effects
waves and buoyancy
caustics
planar reflections


https://alexanderameye.github.io/notes/stylized-water-shader/

#shader #water

Sharing code to build and deploy to Steam with one click

It relies on the com.unity.platforms package that is experimental.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/11mv0i3/sharing_code_to_build_and_deploy_to_steam_with/

Gist: https://gist.github.com/Marc-Ducret/ae65c430e6d27bfdf618c89150559cb6

#ci #steam

Fractured Cube Breakdown

Requires a pre-fractured model (for example made in Blender, using the Cell Fracture addon). But importantly, the positions of the origin/pivot of each fractured piece has been baked into mesh data (UV channels).

https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/fractured-cube-breakdown/

#shadergraph #fracture #vfx

Unity-HDRP-GPU-View-Cone: View Cone, Field of View, Sight Cone - done with custom Shadow Mapping in Unity HDRP

The technique used is basically the shadow mapping. Rendering the depth texture from the eyes of the enemy, then checking which spots are visible to the player AND the enemy and only drawing on overlapping pixels. The performance cost should be like having a spotlight with shadows turned on.
Since the latest few HDRP Upgrades the system doesn't work in builds anymore. So consider this repo just for learning purposes on how to theoretically set up custom shadow mapping

https://github.com/leorid/Unity-HDRP-GPU-View-Cone

#hdrp #lineofsight #viewcone

Lit Toon Shader Graph

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lit-toon-shader-54740865

#shadergraph #toon #urp

Unity Production Architecture

There are endless ways of scaling your architecture without suffering, and different developers have different opinions about that. The author tried to identify practices that are easy to follow, simple enough, but still result in scalability.
The book is not finished yet, but 3 chapters are available already.

https://unity-architecture.com/

#architecture

Screen Gloom Optimization in Wavetale

https://agentlien.github.io/gloom/index.html

#postprocess #shader #gloom

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 scripts so that e.g. Text variables in those scripts 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