Unity and Game Development links (Aug 5th 2019)
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Phi Dinh remembered a Twitter moment with tips and tutorials about the shaders used on Recompile. (Recompile Unity Tips and Tutorials).
- Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen wrote a blog post about Unity 2019.2 release. This version has more than 170 new features. (Here’s what’s in the brand-new Unity 2019.2).
Screen.cutouts for iOS/Android, Burst Compiler updates, TypeCache API in Editor code, PhysX Cloth Solver update, DSPGraph audio mixing/rendering engine, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier support, IDE support moving to packages, .NET 4.x is now default and Incremental Garbage Collection.
- Sykoo made a video about Unity 2019.2 features too (Unity 2019.2 is now available!).
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Andy Touch created a Twitter thread about the different 2D Light Types available in Unity 2019.2 (2D Light Types).
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Dilmer Valecillos made a video showing how to use low polly assets for VR (Unity3d Oculus Quest Development - Adding A Low Poly Asset for VR Usage from the Asset Store).
- Alex Lindman wrote a blog post on custom lighting in Shader Graph (Custom Lighting in Shader Graph: Expanding your graphs in 2019).
With the release of Unity Editor 2019.1, the Shader Graph package officially came out of preview! Now, in 2019.2, we’re bringing even more features and functionality to Shader Graph.
- Kenney has an incredible collection of free game assets that any game developer can use (Kenney Assets).
License: (CC0 1.0 Universal) You’re free to use these game assets in any project, personal or commercial. There’s no need to ask permission before using these. Giving attribution is not required, but is greatly appreciated!
- Lindsay Cox made a peformance test comparing single thead, TPL and C# Job System (Single Thread Vs Tasks Vs Unity C# Jobs – Simple Performance Test).
In conclusion then, based on the above tests, if you are going to crunch through work without the Burst Compiler, maybe look at using something like Tasks first before opting for Jobs. If you are going to use the Burst Compiler, use the Job System.
- Kristin Stock made a video on procedurally generated low-poly planets (Procedurally Generated Low-Poly Planets in Unity).
- Eduardo Oriz and Mike Geig wrote a blog post about how to set up your Unity project for retro 16-bit games (2D Pixel Perfect: How to set up your Unity project for retro 16-bit games).
In our first 2D Pixel Perfect guide for retro games, we showed you how to set up the 2D Pixel Perfect tool and how 8-bit graphics were made back in the day. In this post, we fast-forward to the 16-bit era. With the help of Mega Cat Studios, you’ll learn how to create authentic art for Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive) and Super NES-style games using Unity settings, graphics structures, and color palettes
- Unity released the
ML-Agents Beta 0.9.0(ML-Agents Beta 0.9.0)Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning, pre-training for the PPO trainer, training generalized reinforcement learning agents, options for Nature and ResNet CNN architectures.