Tips

Revision as of 03:00, 12 January 2013

General

• Tip of the day - User-provided tip of the day.每日提示
• Maximize Unity Game in Windows - C# .unity3d wrapper window that can be maximized, dynamically resized, and remembers state.
• Moving and Copying Unity Assets - Don't use the Finder!
• Customized Packaging - How to customize the Unity packaging process, which occurs after a build.
• Font Creation - An Adobe Illustrator template file to help create font textures.
• VRAM tips - Chart of texture compression sizes in VRAM
• Creating Screen Savers - Use the unity web player to create Unity screen savers.
• General Performance Tips - These guidelines provide a ballpark for making a decently performing game with Unity.
• Adjusting light levels - How to calibrate your monitor and adjust textures and lighting to have good gamma.
• GUISkin Creation Walkthru - Creating GUI Skins - From Illustrator to Photoshop to Unity.
• Use non-English fonts with GUIStyle - How to make international characters appear in your UnityGUI display.
• Array Editing - Undocumented features that make editing arrays in the editor less painful.
• Two Instances of Unity3d - Want to open two Instances of Unity3d? Here's how.
• Xbox360Controller - Xbox 360 Controller button references.
• LogitechController - Logitech Controller button references.
• Known Issues - List of known issues in Unity itself.
• Https WebPlayer - How to set up webplayer to work with https.

Scripting

• Beginner's Scripting Guide - The basics, to help those new to programming.
• JavaScript Quirks - Unity's JavaScript is ever so slightly out of step with most other flavors of JS. Some of the oddities are documented here.
• Event Execution Order - The order in which events in your scripts are called by Unity.
• Which Kind Of Array Or Collection Should I Use? - Choose from Unity's Arrays, .NET's Arrays, ArrayList, Hashtable, List<> and others.
• RGB values via script - How to get the perfect color values using script.
• Common Scripting Pitfalls - We've all been there. Here's the place to learn so you don't go there frequently.
• Unity's Ambient Lighting Algorithm - Describes how to calculate the color of a pixel of an object that's subject to lamp and ambient lighting.
• Converting Between Coordinate Systems - finding one object's position relative to another.
• C Sharp to Boo - Syntax differences between Boo and C#.

Text Editors and Development Tools

• Script Editors - Overview and comparison of script editors for use with Unity.
• Playing Your Game From A Text Editor - An AppleScript which starts your Unity game from within your text editor.
• Syntax coloring for Boo in Unitron - plists for Smultron to add Boo syntac highlighting and function finding.
• Setting up Visual Studio for Unity - All you need to know to set up a smooth workflow for C# development for Unity.
• Setting up Visual Studio for Unity on Mac - If you like to combine the both of best worlds and run Unity on the Mac but Visual Studio on a virtual machine running on that Mac (VMWare Fusion or Parallels), this will provide you some valuable information and solutions to common problems.
• Manual Compilation of C# Unity Scripts - How to compile C# Unity scripts on the command line, to ease integration with editors such as Vim.
• Using Dreamweaver as a script editor - A quick tip to help with using Dreamweavers expand/collapse features - good for longer scripts.
• Fix Function Popup Menu in Unitron - Fix for Unitron to show public, protected and private scoped UnityScript functions in the pop-up function menu.
• Using Notepad Plus Plus as a script editor - Directions for replacing UniSciTE with Notepad++

3D Tools

• 3D Applications - Which 3D applications are compatible with Unity.
• Animeeple - Using Animeeple with Unity.
• Blender - Some critical tips for using Blender with Unity.
• Carrara - Using Carrara with Unity.
• Cheetah3D - Using Cheetah with Unity.
• Cinema 4D - Using Maxon's Cinema 4D with Unity.
• dim3 Inspire - Using dim3 Inspire with Unity.
• Lightwave - Using Newtek's Lightwave with Unity.
• Maya - Using Autodesk's Maya with Unity.
• Modo - Using Luxology's Modo with Unity.
• MotionBuilder - Using Autodesk's MotionBuilder with Unity.
• SketchUp - Using Google SketchUp with Unity.
• Wings3D - Using Wings3D with Unity.
• 3D Studio Max - Using Autodesk's 3D Studio Max with Unity.
• Softimage XSI - Using Softimage XSI with Unity.
• Free 3D Models - Websites containing free 3d models.
• Commercial 3D Models - Websites containing commercial models.
• Free Animations - Websites containing free animations.

2D Tools and Resources

• Photoshop - Using Adobe Photoshop for creating textures and user interfaces.
• Free Textures - Websites with free textures, backgrounds and photography.
• Commercial Textures - Websites with commercial textures, backgrounds and photography.

Audio

• Audio Applications - Audio applications and their compatibility with Unity.

Protection (obfuscation)

• Unity 3D Obfuscator - Tool to protect Unity3D applications from decompilation

General Integration

• Debugging and Profiling with Unity - How to eliminate bugs and measure performance

Miscellaneous

• Reflector - A C# program to dump an assembly classes, methods, and attributes, command line usage
• PrefabScriptableObjects - An example of how to keep some fancy data in a ScriptableObject serialized as a prefab

OpenGL

• General OpenGL Resources - Links to relevant background information on OpenGL.
• Minimum Graphic Card Requirements - What Unity features are supported by what levels of graphics cards

Unity iPhone

Tips to reduce head scratching while developing for the iPhone.

• iOS Video Tutorials - Free video walkthrough of how to set up a developer account, use the Unity Remote, and provision your device for development and app store submission.
• Unity iPhone Problems and Solutions
• iPhone Optimization Tips

Obsolete

• Smultron (Unitron) Unity Keywords (OBSOLETE by Unity 1.6) - Highlight and Autocomplete your Unity script.

Unity Tools