Tips

Unity tips

• Tip of the day - User provided tip of the day.

• RGB values via script - How to get the perfect color values using script.
• Moving and Copying Unity Assets - Don't use the Finder!
• Common Scripting Pitfalls - We've all been there. Here's the place to learn so you don't go there frequently.
• 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.
• Event Execution Order - The order in which events in your scripts are called by Unity.
• 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.
• Beginner's Scripting Guide - The basics. Tips & info to help those new to programming.
• 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

3D application tips

• 3D Applications - Which 3D applications are compatible with Unity.
• Blender - Some critical tips for using Blender with Unity.
• Carrara - Tips and tricks for using Carrara with Unity.
• Cheetah3D - Tips and tricks for using Cheetah with Unity.
• Cinema 4D - Tips and tricks for using Maxon's Cinema 4D with Unity.
• dim3 Inspire - Tips and tricks for using dim3 Inspire with Unity.
• Lightwave - Tips and tricks for using Newtek's Lightwave with Unity.
• Maya - Tips and tricks for using Autodesk's Maya with Unity.
• Modo - Tips and tricks for using Luxology's Modo with Unity.
• MotionBuilder - Tips and tricks for using Autodesk's MotionBuilder with Unity.
• Wings3D - Tips and tricks for using Wings3D with Unity.
• 3D Studio Max - Tips and tricks for using Autodesk's 3D Studio Max with Unity.
• Softimage XSI - Tips and tricks for using Softimage XSI with Unity.

2D application tips

• Photoshop - Various tips on using Adobe Photoshop for creating textures and user interfaces.
• Free Textures - Web sites with free textures, backgrounds and photography.

Audio application tips

• Audio Applications - A list of audio applications and their compatibility with Unity.

General integration tips

• 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.
• 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.

OpenGL

• texture mapping
• Minimum Graphic Card Requirements - What Unity features are supported by what levels of graphics cards

Obsolete tips

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

Special Stuff

Stuff that doesn't appear to sit anywhere else...

• Reflector - A C# program to dump an assembly classes, methods, and attributes, command line usage