Tips

Latest revision as of 23:21, 11 October 2020

Tip of the day - User-provided tip of the day.
General Performance Tips - These guidelines provide a ballpark for making a decently performing game with Unity.
Moving and Copying Unity Assets - Don't use the Finder!
VRAM tips - Chart of texture compression sizes in VRAM
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.
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.
Quick Editor - Generate Hashes - An example on how to create a quick editor script to generate MD5 Hashes on a list of game objects
Debugging and Profiling with Unity - How to eliminate bugs and measure performance

Color conversions - Colors conversions.
Strings: efficient Replace implementation - Ultra memory efficient, single pass string replacements.
Strings: case sensistive custom implementations - Common pitfalls: not using convertion tables.
Custom editors: input text fileds - Common pitfalls: custom editors and input text fields.

Playing Your Game From A Text Editor - An AppleScript which starts your Unity game from within your text editor.
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++
Visual Studio Unity Assembly Template - A VS2013 Project template to create a self-deploying dll asset.

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

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

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 == Optimizations ==
-* [[Custom editors: input text fileds]] - Common pitfalls: custom editors and input text fields.
+* [[Color conversions]] - Colors conversions.
+* [[Strings: efficient Replace implementation]] - Ultra memory efficient, single pass string replacements.
 * [[Strings: case sensistive custom implementations]] - Common pitfalls: not using convertion tables.
-* [[Strings: hex/int conversions custom implementations]] - Common pitfalls: not using convertion tables.
+* [[Custom editors: input text fileds]] - Common pitfalls: custom editors and input text fields.
 == External Tools and Editors ==