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Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development Build, customize, and optimize professional games using Unity 2020 and C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642006
Length 580 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and GameObjects 4. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 5. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 6. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 7. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and VFX Graph 8. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 9. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with postprocessing 10. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 11. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 12. Chapter 12: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 13. Chapter 13: Introduction to Unity Scripting with C# 14. Chapter 14: Implementing Movement and Spawning 15. Chapter 15: Physics Collisions and Health System 16. Chapter 16: Win and Lose Conditions 17. Chapter 17: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 18. Chapter 18: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 19. Chapter 19: Scene Performance Optimization 20. Chapter 20: Building the Project 21. Chapter 21: Finishing Touches 22. Chapter 22: Augmented Reality in Unity 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Optimizing graphics

The most common cause of performance issues is related to the misuse of assets, especially on the graphics side, due to not having enough knowledge of how Unity's graphic engines work. We are going to explore how a GPU works at a high level and how to improve its usage.

In this section, we will examine the following graphics optimization concepts:

  • Introduction to graphic engines
  • Using Frame Debugger
  • Using batching
  • Other optimizations

We will start by looking at a high-level overview of how graphics are rendered to better understand the performance data that we will gather later in Frame Debugger. Based on the debugger's results, we are going to identify the areas that we can apply batching to (which is a technique to combine the rendering process of several objects, thereby reducing its cost), along with other common optimizations to keep in mind.

Introduction to graphic engines

Nowadays, every gaming device, whether...

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