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Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

By : Dr. Davide Aversa, Chris Dickinson
Book Image

Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

By: Dr. Davide Aversa, Chris Dickinson

Overview of this book

Unity engine comes with a great set of features to help you build high-performance games. This Unity book is your guide to optimizing various aspects of your game development, from game characters and scripts, right through to animations. You’ll explore techniques for writing better game scripts and learn how to optimize a game using Unity technologies such as ECS and the Burst compiler. The book will also help you manage third-party tooling used with the Unity ecosystem. You’ll also focus on the problems in the performance of large games and virtual reality (VR) projects in Unity, gaining insights into detecting performance issues and performing root cause analysis. As you progress, you’ll discover best practices for your Unity C# script code and get to grips with usage patterns. Later, you’ll be able to optimize audio resources and texture files, along with effectively storing and using resource files. You’ll then delve into the Rendering Pipeline and learn how to identify performance problems in the pipeline. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to optimize the memory and processing unit of Unity. Finally, you’ll cover tips and tricks used by Unity professionals to improve the project workflow. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to build interactive games using Unity and its components.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Base Scripting Optimization
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Section 2: Graphical Optimizations
9
Section 3: Advance Optimizations

Summary

There are many different opportunities that we can explore to achieve performance gains for our application just by tinkering with our imported assets. Alternatively, from another perspective, there are plenty of ways to ruin our application's performance through asset mismanagement. Almost every single import configuration opportunity is a trade-off between one performance metric or workflow task and another. Typically, this means saving the disk footprint via compression at the expense of CPU at runtime to decompress the data, or faster access while reducing the quality level of the final presentation. So we must remain vigilant and only pick the right techniques for the right assets for the right reasons.

This concludes our exploration of improving performance through art asset manipulation. In the next chapter, we will be investigating how to improve our usage...