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Unity 5  Game Optimization

You're reading from   Unity 5 Game Optimization Master performance optimization for Unity3D applications with tips and techniques that cover every aspect of the Unity3D Engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884580
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Texture files

The terms "Texture" and "Sprite" often get confused in game development, so it's worth making the distinction that in Unity 3D a Texture is simply an image file; a big list of color data telling the interpreting program what color each pixel of the image should be. Whereas a Sprite is the 2D equivalent of a mesh, which just happens to be a single quad that renders flat against the current camera. There are also things called Sprite Sheets, which are large collections of individual images contained within a larger Texture file, commonly used to contain the animations of a 2D character. These files can be split apart by Unity's Sprite Batch tool, to form individual Textures for the animation frames.

Let's try to ignore all of these confusing naming convention overlaps, and simply talk about Textures: the image files we're importing into our application that were generated in tools such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp. At runtime, these files...

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