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Needed a way to blend skeletal animation with head movement that follows the cursor (like Liar's Bar). Found a quick and clean solution using the Animation Rigging package Should I leave this cat in the game?💀 Tutorial that helped me: youtube.com/watch?v=q7aF8l… #madewithunity

A VHS effect breakdown in less than 1 minute I built a custom VHS effect from scratch to get that gritty, analog vibe for my prototype about a post‑apocalypse. Want the full shader code and a deeper dive into how it works? #unity #gamedev

Instantly Boost Unity Game Performance With IL2CPP_USE_SPARSEHASH A trick to improve performance for all operations that utilize metadata. Of course, this isn't free, but performance is always about compromise. gamedev.center/instantly-boos… #unitytips #gamedev #madewithunity

Unity ECS Performance Testing: The Way To The Best Performance. The next post in the series about automated testing with Unity.Entities. I also created a sample repo you can get with all the setup and samples (link in the thread). gamedev.center/unity-ecs-perf… #gamedev #unitytips

I haven't posted on my blog for a while, partly because I've been investing time in developing my game, which is still in its very early stages. Nonetheless, I wanted to share how I write unit tests for this game, built using Unity ECS gamedev.center/unit-testing-m… #unitytips #gamedev

The Cost Of async/await On The Build Size: Uncover the relationship between using async/await and build size. Learn the costs and how it affects your code in this comprehensive analysis gamedev.center/the-cost-of-as… #unitytips #optimization

Sand Balls Mechanics Implementation: The Best Way To Deform A Mesh In Unity - Part II This part covers MeshData API, performance testing, and optimization techniques to achieve a smoother user experience. gamedev.center/sand-balls-mec… #madewithunity #gamedev #unitytips

Sand Balls Mechanics Implementation: The Best Way To Deform A Mesh The goal is not only to share the code but to find out how naïve implementation could be to run on mobile using single-threaded, jobs, or a compute shader implementation gamedev.center/sand-balls-mec… #unitytips #gamedev

How To Write A Custom URP Shader With DOTS Instancing Support A short breakdown of the shader template I shared recently: gamedev.center/how-to-write-a… #unitytips #madewithunity #gamedev

I needed a custom shader to use it with BatchRendererGroup. Turned out it must support DOTS instancing. But official docs haven't helped me that much, so if anyone has the same issue here is the template I made. All comes down to macros magic gist.github.com/AlexMerzlikin/… #unitytips

Finally finished a post about the new BatchRendererGroup API. Created the minimal sample, as for me its easier to understand how to work with it that way. Then improved it and ended up with boids simulation rendered with BRG gamedev.center/trying-out-new… #madewithunity #unitytips

I saw a great talk from Unite 2018 by @jonasechterhoff and he shared a great tip why ScriptableObject should be used for properties youtu.be/4JLpJHIdx7E?t=… I believe its still true & prefabs are resolved during build, but can anyone approve that it haven't changed? #unitytips

Tutorial How To Make An Interactive Grass Shader In Unity. The iterative guide that shows step-by-step how the desired effect could be achieved. gamedev.center/tutorial-how-t… #madewithunity #gamedevelopment #unitytips

Want to use a debugger on a mobile device to investigate issues at startup? Make sure to add a proxy scene first with a "start" button. Debugger needs some time to init, loading all assemblies when attached to the device until its able to stop at breakpoints. 1/4 #uintytips

Finally got myself together to make the first step to learn shaders. Used exceptional tutorial by @roystanhonks to generate grass in the geometry shader and then added interaction myself. Really love to see it working. It ain't much, but it's honest work. #madewithunity #gamedev

Compilation of best #unitytips by Unity engineers gathered at Unite. Haven't seen a good part of these circulating the internet over and over. So I spent a bunch of time rewatching those talks so you don’t have to #unity #gamedev #gamedevelopment gamedev.center/best-optimizat…

How to unit test a class that uses static API. A very simple trick that makes the code testable, as well as introduces an important principle that improves your architecture by making it cleaner and more flexible gamedev.center/how-to-unit-te… #unity3d #gamedev #unitytips

Avoid LayoutGroups if your content isn't dynamic, or use anchors for proportional layouts. Otherwise, disable via code these components after they adjust the UI. If you do have dynamic elements, then at least avoid nesting LayoutGroups to improve performance #unitytips

In Unity avoid adding MonoBehaviour components at runtime unless there is no other way around. AddComponent at runtime must check for duplicates or other required components. Prefer instantiating a prefab with all needed components attached #unitytips #gamedevtips #unity3d

For small collections in C# it is faster to search for an item linearly in the Array instead of accessing it with a key in the Dictionary, even if you use an int key, for which hash function just returns its value. Check results: gamedev.center/array-vs-dicti… #performance #unitytips