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Unity 5 Game Optimization

By : Chris Dickinson
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Unity 5 Game Optimization

By: Chris Dickinson

Overview of this book

Competition within the gaming industry has become significantly fiercer in recent years with the adoption of game development frameworks such as Unity3D. Through its massive feature-set and ease-of-use, Unity helps put some of the best processing and rendering technology in the hands of hobbyists and professionals alike. This has led to an enormous explosion of talent, which has made it critical to ensure our games stand out from the crowd through a high level of quality. A good user experience is essential to create a solid product that our users will enjoy for many years to come. Nothing turns gamers away from a game faster than a poor user-experience. Input latency, slow rendering, broken physics, stutters, freezes, and crashes are among a gamer's worst nightmares and it's up to us as game developers to ensure this never happens. High performance does not need to be limited to games with the biggest teams and budgets. Initially, you will explore the major features of the Unity3D Engine from top to bottom, investigating a multitude of ways we can improve application performance starting with the detection and analysis of bottlenecks. You'll then gain an understanding of possible solutions and how to implement them. You will then learn everything you need to know about where performance bottlenecks can be found, why they happen, and how to work around them. This book gathers a massive wealth of knowledge together in one place, saving many hours of research and can be used as a quick reference to solve specific issues that arise during product development.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Unity 5 Game Optimization
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

External tips


The following tips and tricks relate to topics outside the Unity Editor itself that can help Unity development workflow enormously.

Googling Unity-related problems or concerns can go a lot faster if we start the search with "site:unity3d.com".

If the Unity Editor crashes, for whatever reason, then we can potentially restore our Scene by renaming the following file to include the .unity extension (for Scene files), and copying it into our Assets folder:

\<project folder>\Temp\_EditModeScene

If we're developing on Windows, then there's very little reason not to use Visual Studio at this point. MonoDevelop has been dragged along kicking and screaming for many years, and many developers have been switching over to the more feature-rich Visual Studio Community edition for most of their development workflow needs, particularly with incredibly helpful plugins such as Resharper.

For some developers, the only reason to boot up MonoDevelop has been for runtime debugging of code, but...