A simple project that shows how to create an Android service for Unity application working on background

The Unity Background Service is a project demonstrating how to create an Android service for a Unity application to operate in the background. Typically, Android services, especially within Unity apps, shut down when we terminate the app. It is impossible to keep the service fully operational in the background. The only solution is to allow the service to run in the foreground, accompanied by a notification. Users can then choose to hide that notification if they wish.

https://github.com/nintendaii/unity-background-service

#native #background

Asynchronously Instantiate Objects with InstantiateAsync In Unity

InstantiateAsync has finally arrived, though still in beta. It's also interesting whether it will be backported to LTS versions or not

https://giannisakritidis.com/blog/InstantiateAsync/

#instantiate #async

radishface/OnDemandShadowMapUpdate: Customize on-demand shadow rendering in HDRP.

By default, High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) updates the realtime shadow maps every frame. This script adds more options to customize the on-demand shadow rendering to optimize the runtime performance. It relies on RequestShadowMapRendering and RequestSubShadowMapRendering functions

https://github.com/radishface/OnDemandShadowMapUpdate

#hdrp #shadow #rendering

Get your work recognized: write a brag document

A lot of developers work in companies that practice some sort of performance review. Take some time to write a document with your accomplishments and update it periodically in order to make not only your life easier when it comes to a self evaluation report, but also your manager's and peers' lives who take part in the review.

https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

#career #review

Mesh slicing in Unity

https://medium.com/@hesmeron/mesh-slicing-in-unity-740b21ffdf84

#mesh #slice

AnnulusGames/LitMotion: Lightning-fast and Zero Allocation Tween Library for Unity.

Annulus Games shared a lot of great packages on their GitHub, make sure to check their repos. Some of them I've already shared here too.

https://github.com/AnnulusGames/LitMotion

#tween

kyubuns/Auto9Slicer: Auto 9 slice sprite generator on Unity

https://github.com/kyubuns/Auto9Slicer

#sprite #slice #editortool

LitMotion — High-performance tween implementation with data-oriented design in Unity

An amazing post about tween library design approaches and which one is used by LitMotion, acclaimed by its authors the fastest. Delves into details of achieving the maximum performance and why design of previous tween libs leads to performance issues. Also it describes the sparse set data structure in very simple terms.

https://medium.com/@annulusgames/litmotion-fastest-tween-implementation-with-data-oriented-design-in-unity-07c9aa14d9dd

#performance #sparseset #tween

Rider 2024.1 EAP 5: Collections Visualizer, Sticky Lines, Improved GitHub Actions Support, and More

Collections visualizer and sticky lines definitely gonna be helpful during investigations and debugging

https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2024/02/16/rider-2024-1-eap-5/

#rider

Top 7 Unity Architecture Mistakes in Match3 Games

A great post that covers practices that must be followed if you want to build a top-grossing game that remains successful over long periods of time. You might think that all this advice is overkill or that no one follows it all in game development, but that's the harsh reality of modern top mobile games. Of course there are exceptions to this and from time to time we see ultra successful games that don't follow it, check "the survivorship bias". But still keeping the success up for many years requires incorporating these practices sooner or later.
It's great that experts like Siarhei share their invaluable experience from working on a number of the most successful mobile games.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-7-unity-architecture-mistakes-match3games-siarhei-khalandachou-uyklf/

#architecture #process

FakeRopeSimulation: Create a fake simulated rope, connecting between 2 point

https://github.com/Ali10555/FakeRopeSimulation

#rope

Unity WebGL platform and version comparisons with a lot of nice extras

Build reference collection for various Unity WebGL builds with different build settings. These live builds show the size, loading speed and capabilities of Unity WebGL builds to help you make an educated decision on what version might be best suited for your project.

https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest

#webgl

How to spy on your competition

Do you ever look at popular games and think “How did they do it?” Why are they so popular? How can I do that too? Should I be Tweeting more? (Hint: probably not).

There are a couple tricks to deconstruct how those popular games get so damn popular.

https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/01/25/how-to-spy-on-your-competition/

#marketing #gamedesign

NEW Unity ECS Profiling and Analysis Tools - Unity DOTS

I haven't noticed these new graphs in the profiler while working with Unity ECS for quite some time: entities structural changes and entities memory. So I thought this video might be helpful to get acquainted with these new features. The entities journaling in 1.0 is already added as a separate editor window, so the hassle with the debugger is not needed anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOH56gkfG4Y

#profiling #dots

Unity selected objects History Window

Also provides the favorites window. I tried a few open source solutions and this one looks the most straightforward.

https://github.com/acoppes/unity-history-window

#history #favorites #editortools

Arch.Unity: Arch ECS integration for Unity.

One of the fastest C# ECS implementations is now available in Unity. Provides:

- VContainer Integration
- Arch Hierarchy (similar to Entities Hierarchy from Unity.Entities)
- Jobs support (reference types and structural changes are not allowed since there is no EntityCommandBuffer; however, based on my experience with Unity.Entities structural changes can be done via NativeArray, which is filled with entities to be changed, and the actual structural change is performed after the job on the main thread, this approach can be even faster than ECB)
- Conversion Workflow

https://github.com/AnnulusGames/Arch.Unity

#ecs

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 scripts 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