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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071482
Length 710 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Our First Level
2. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity 4. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects 5. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 6. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 7. Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound
8. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 9. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 10. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 11. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing 12. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 13. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 14. Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit 15. Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 16. Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#
17. Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting 18. Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning 19. Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System 20. Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition 21. Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 22. Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 23. Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization 24. Section 4 – Releasing Your Game
25. Chapter 21: Building the Project 26. Chapter 22: Finishing Touches 27. Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity 28. 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 the 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 the 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, 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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