Explore Products

Best Sellers

New Releases

Books

Videos

Audiobooks

Learning Hub

Conferences

Free Learning

You're reading from Unity Game Optimization Enhance and extend the performance of all aspects of your Unity games

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556518

Length 404 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Optimization

Authors (2):

Dr. Davide Aversa

Chris Dickinson

View More author details

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Base Scripting Optimization FREE CHAPTER

2. Evaluating Performance Problems

3. Scripting Strategies

4. Section 2: Graphical Optimizations

5. The Benefits of Batching

6. Optimizing Your Art Assets

7. Faster Physics

8. Dynamic Graphics

9. Section 3: Advance Optimizations

10. Optimizations for Virtual and Augmented Reality

11. Masterful Memory Management

12. The Data-Oriented Technology Stack

13. Tactical Tips and Tricks

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

Overview of XR technology

XR offers a whole new realm for developers and creatives to explore. This includes entertainment products such as games and 360-degree videos (or 360 video for short), where a series of cameras are bundled together, each facing a different direction—the various captures from those cameras are stitched together and later played back like a movie in a VR headset, with visibility in all directions. Creative industry tools are also common in XR, such as 3D-modeling software, workflow visualizations, and quality-of-life gadgets. There are very few rules that have been set in stone, so there are plenty of opportunities to innovate, contribute to this new wave of technology, and become the one to create those rules. This has led to a lot of buzz and excitement as people explore what is possible and try to make their mark on the future of entertainment...

The rest of the chapter is locked

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime

Authors (2)

Dr. Davide Aversa

Dr. Davide Aversa holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an MSc in AI and robotics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in Italy. He has a strong interest in AI for the development of interactive virtual agents and procedural content generation. He has served as a program committee member for video game-related conferences such as the IEEE conference on computational intelligence and games, and he also regularly participates in game-jam contests. He also writes a blog on game design and game development.

See other products by Dr. Davide Aversa

Dickinson

Chris Dickinson grew up in a quiet little corner of England with a strong passion for mathematics, science and, in particular, video games. He loved playing them, dissecting their gameplay, and trying to figure out how they worked. Watching his dad hack the hex code of a PC game to get around the early days of copy protection completely blew his mind! His passion for science won the battle at the time; however, after completing a master's degree in physics with electronics, he flew out to California to work in the field of scientific research in the heart of Silicon Valley. Shortly afterward, he had to admit to himself that research work was an unsuitable career path for his temperament. After firing resumes in all directions, he landed a job that finally set him on the correct course in the field of software engineering (this is not uncommon for physics grads, I hear). His time working as an automated tools developer for IPBX phone systems fit his temperament much better. Now he was figuring out complex chains of devices, helping its developers fix and improve them, and building tools of his own. Chris learned a lot about how to work with big, complex, real-time, event-based, user-input driven state machines (sounds familiar?). Being mostly self-taught at this point, Chris's passion for video games was flaring up again, pushing him to really figure out how video games were built. Once he felt confident enough, he returned to school for a bachelor's degree in game and simulation programming. By the time he was done, he was already hacking together his own (albeit rudimentary) game engines in C++ and regularly making use of those skills during his day job. However, if you want to build games, you should just build games, and not game engines. So, Chris picked his favorite publically available game engine at the time--an excellent little tool called Unity 3D--and started hammering out some games. After a brief stint of indie game development, Chris regretfully decided that the demands of that particular career path weren't for him, but the amount of knowledge he had accumulated in just a few short years was impressive by most standards, and he loved to make use of it in ways that enabled other developers with their creations. Since then, Chris has authored a tutorial book on game physics (Learning Game Physics with Bullet Physics and OpenGL, Packt Publishing) and two editions of a Unity performance optimization book (which you are currently reading). He has married the love of his life, Jamie, and works with some of the coolest modern technology as a software development engineer in Test (SDET) at Jaunt Inc. in San Mateo, CA, a Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality startup that focuses on delivering VR and AR experiences, such as 360 videos (and more!). Outside of work, Chris continues to fight an addiction to board games (particularly Battlestar: Galactica and Blood Rage), an obsession with Blizzard's Overwatch and Starcraft II, cater to the ever-growing list of demands from a pair of grumpy yet adorable cats, and gazing forlornly at the latest versions of Unity with a bunch of game ideas floating around on paper. Someday soon, when the time is right (and when he stops slacking off), his plans may come to fruition

See other products by Dickinson