Issue #315 - Debugging Shaders, Physics, and more
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Learn How to Get Non-Convex Collisions on Dynamic Objects in Unity - Johann Hotzel shared how he created the MeshColliders tool, explaining its purpose, how it works, and the different ways it can be implemented.
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UI Background Shader - While making the “Cleaning Prototype” I wanted a UI option with subtle background movements and a repeating pattern. So I made a shader that does that. But now that it’s made I might as well share it!
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GPU Memory Fundamentals - This tutorial explains GPU memory architecture and performance concepts, with practical examples using tinygrad
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Adapting to the fast pace of a live multiplayer VR game with PIGIAMA KASAMA - Founded in 2022, PIGIAMA KASAMA is a game production company that creates games for its own IPs, such as Kasama: The Awakening, and offers game development services to other brands.
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Videos
Advanced UI Toolkit: Run Time Binding for Character Selection - Dive into Unity 6's powerful runtime data binding with UI Toolkit! In this walkthrough, we integrate a dynamic boss/character selector carousel with one-way & two-way bindings, property bags explained, and real-time data sync. Perfect for advanced developers wanting reactive UIs with minimal boilerplate.
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Skills for Game Dev Writers - Answering a question from chillorangescube about what skills are helpful for getting a job as a game dev / narrative designer.
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6.3 Multiplayer Template Overview - Join us for an overview of the new 6.3 Multiplayer 3rd-person Gameplay Template with Esteban Maldonado and Megh Jagad.
Unity
Finally! A HUMAN Way to Debug Shaders... (ShaderToHuman) - A new open-source project from Electronic Arts makes HLSL and GLSL shader debugging a heck of a lot easier! ShaderToHuman is essentially a library that brings PrintF-style debugging and a Dear ImGui-like UI layer directly to your shaders.
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Assets
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ShaderToHuman - HLSL/GLSL library for debugging shaders
electronicarts Open Source
burst-trace - High-performance, zero-allocation stack trace logger for Unity Mono/DOTS, Burst, and Jobs. Safely capture call chains in multithreaded code
Elfinik Open Source
BetterSharpForUnity - Utilities that empower Unity/C# developers
takuma-komatsu Open Source
unity-git-hooks - Git hooks for Unity3D project
doitian Open Source
Mace - Mace is an MVVM framework for Unity with editor-assignable bindings
Aleshmandr Open Source
UnityRuntimeTerrain - Tools for editing Unity terrains at runtime
JohannHotzel Open Source
MercuryMessaging - A framework and encompassing toolkit to facilitate nonspatial communication in the Unity game engine.
ColumbiaCGUI Open Source
Plot-a-function-graph-in-Unity3D - graph creator for Unity3D
AlexKutepov Open Source
vektor-voxels - A work-in-progress cubic voxel framework for the Unity game engine.
VektorKnight Open Source
uLayout - A simple UI layout system for Unity uGUI.
pokeblokdude Open Source
FolderTag - Unity Editor Plugin, You can tag and annotate any folder and share it with other members of the project
liyingsong99 Open Source
Unity-DebugX - A multifunctional, extensible, and high-performance Gizmos drawing utility for Unity. It works both in the editor and in the build, and drawing can be done both in OnDrawGizmos and in Update.
DCFApixels Open Source
Bit-Collections - A bit-packing library providing contiguous data structures of bits and signed/unsigned integers with arbitrary (non-standard) bit widths
MrUnbelievable92 Open Source
Yugens-Terrain-Authoring-Toolkit - The public version of the Marching Squares Terrain plugin for godot.
ToumaKamijou Open Source
PING - I've created PING, a simple nodal web app to create 2D & 3D procedural textures. It's especially useful for visual effects in real-time applications, like video games. It's free, open source (GPL 3.0). Give it a try!
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