Issue #304 - Optimization, and more
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New Unity 6 profiling and performance e-books are live - Hey all. Your friendly neighborhood Unity Community Manager Trey here again. Earlier this year we updated our full suite of profiling and performance optimization e-books for Unity 6, and they’re all free. If you're working on anything with complex performance needs, these guides are packed with actionable examples and Unity consultant-backed workflows. Whether you're targeting console, PC, mobile, XR, or web, there’s something in here for you.
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Market Insights Calculator - PlatformFirst, describe your game. What's the genre and where will people play it? This helps to see where your game fits in the market and estimate its potential audience.
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Holes In 3D Models - One easy way to create holes in 3D models, is by using a black and white texture. This is especially useful for cloth objects. However you can also turn it into geometry with thickness for 3D printing, with just a few modifiers.
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Check Out How Games Creatively Keep Players Inside the Map - Game developers use all kinds of tricks, from scary to funny, to stop players from going past the edge of the map.
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Player‑Side Smoothness in Unity: CapFrameX + PresentMon Percentiles & Overlays - Myth: “Average FPS tells me if the game feels smooth to the players.” Reality: Averages hide hitches. Percentiles and live overlays expose them. [Also, GPU Reality Check - Radeon GPU Profiler for Unity Pipelines]
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Behind Escape from Duckov's unlikely rise to the top of the Steam charts - A duck-themed reimagining of the extraction shooter genre proved to be a winning formula for Escape from Duckov.
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Videos
Silksong's Graphics Problem (No Spoilers) - Silksong is finally here and with it numerous new areas to explore filled with beautiful hand painted art. How does a game like this actually work behind the scenes and how can we use shaders to fix some common problems plaguing them? Topics covered: Painter's algorithm, depth of field, parallax mapping, particles, bloom, color banding, bayer dithering and debanding, interleaved gradient noise
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Their Second Game Did Worse, Now What? - This is a conversation with Julian Colbus from DigiTales Interactive, the creators of Lacuna and Between Horizons. We talk about regrets from their last game, how to succeed with story based games and how to make it as an indie game developer.
Jonas Tyroller
Unity Game Optimization: Profile, Find Bottlenecks & Fix Performance - Your game tanks on players' devices? Learn profiling, benchmarking & optimization strategies.
Gamedev Engine Room
Sound Effects - I talk about the importance of sound effects in your game.
Timothy Cain
UI Masks in Unity - Rect, Mask, Soft and Inverted Masks - RectMask2D and Mask components "cut out" part of your content to display them inside a specific shape. But did you know it is super easy to create a soft mask? Or how to create an inverted mask for UI elements? With just a bit of Shadergraph magic, we create them in just a few moments. Super simple!
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How to Make Objects Float and Follow Water Currents in Unity Water System | HDRP | - Hi:) Recently, I received several comments asking how to make objects placed in a Water System in Unity stay on the surface and float along with its current. That’s why this time I’ve prepared a short tutorial along with a script, which I hope will make it easier for you to create floating objects in your projects. Have a nice week:)
Seta - Level Design
The BEST Animation Library for Unity - PrimeTween Secrets Revealed - Zero allocation, zero clutter — in this video we explore PrimeTween, a high-performance tweening library for Unity that makes animation code clean, predictable, and fast. You’ll learn how to build sequences, group and chain tweens, add shakes, delays, and callbacks, and control them in real time. We’ll dive into TweenSettings, ShakeSettings, custom AnimationCurves, and even async workflows with UniTask and object pooling to create responsive, game-ready animations — all running smoothly on Unity’s main thread without a single heap allocation.
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Recreating Art of Rally Crowds in Unity - I have always liked watching old rally videos and playing rally games. One that I really love is Art of Rally, due to how it purifies the experience. One thing that held my attention was the behaviour of the crowd. In this video, I show the process of recreating that in Unity.
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UniTask Best Practices - Better Async Code in Unity - Master UniTask async patterns and avoid common pitfalls in Unity development
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Assets
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UnityGitUI - Git UI for Unity with multi-repository support. Manage multiple repositories like it's one repo
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Mace - Mace is an MVVM framework for Unity with editor-assignable bindings
Aleshmandr Open Source
unity-navgen - Tools for working with Unity's NavMeshComponents and generating navmesh: link generation, mesh cleanup, etc
idbrii Open Source
unity-setup - A GitHub Action for setting up the Unity Game Engine for CI/CD workflows
buildalon Open Source
epsilon-script - Embeddable expression engine for C# with functions and allocation-free execution
aki-null Open Source
unimic - Unity's Microphone enhanced and made easy.
adrenak Open Source
univoice - Voice chat/VoIP solution for unity.
adrenak Open Source
Unity-2D-Sprite-Animator - Performatic, simple and easy animator for 2D games in Unity Engine
GabrielBigardi Open Source
BlendShare - BlendShare is an Unity tool designed for creators who need to share blendshapes without distributing the original FBX files. This tool enables the extraction of blendshapes from FBX files and stores them in a custom asset format. These assets can be easily shared and applied to compatible FBX files.
Tr1turbo Open Source
Unity-Mask-Map-Generator - A tool to generate Mask Maps from Metallic, AO and Smoothness maps for Unity HDRP Materials.
styropyr0 Open Source
SubAssetEditor - Editor for SubAsset in unity project.
mob-sakai Open Source
Gemini-Unity-Package - A plugin that allows Gemini to be used inside Unity. A free tool as an alternative to ChatGPT API.
UnityGameStudio Open Source
UnityURP-Procedural-DrawMeshInstancedIndirect - Procedural grass rendering in Unity URP using DrawMeshInstancedIndirect and WeightMap control.
AkilarLiao Open Source
Interactions - A comprehensive Unity package for building advanced VR/AR and 3D interactions with a focus on hand presence, pose constraints, and reactive programming.
Shababeek Open Source
fixed-point-types - A C# library for fixed point numbers
stormmuller Open Source
EmbeddedStreamingAssets - Embedding StreamingAssets for unity web build
Akeit0 Open Source
BitonicPixelSorter - GPU-accelerated pixel sorter with bitonic sorting for Unity
ruccho Open Source
Bring Your 3D Models to Life - Mesh2Motion is a FREE & open-source web application to animate your 3D models. Supports humanoid, four-legged, and bird creatures.
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