#unitytips Did you know that Camera.main calls Object.FindObjectWithTag("MainCamera") ? And will do every time you use Camera.main!
Better cache your Camera and avoid Camera.main. Or make a public variable ( Camera cam ) to use in your scripts!#optimization #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/gLhYTuo4u0
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) January 12, 2021
#UnityTips We will kickoff the new year of tips with this one:
Unity 2021.1 now has built-in pooling system!
A little bit of reading but useful in the future:https://t.co/gEFRHTULcL#indiedev #gamedev
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) January 5, 2021
#UnityTips We did it! 52 Tips in 2020 we did not skip a single Tuesday!
Something new today: Since #Unity 2020.2 Arrays and Lists are reorderable by default. You can disable this function by using the [NonReorderable] attribute.#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/ilHDFrTe8l
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) December 29, 2020
#UnityTips Save a few mouse-meters each day:
shift + alt + a activates or deactivates the currently selected gameobject 😎#shortcut #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/2EdGZ182vu
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) December 22, 2020
#UnityTips This week we have a script for you!😎
Use the PostProcessBuildAttribute to call scripts when a build was finished.
Look at the image, on how to append the version to the filename.
Useful for mobile apps to keep track of the deployed version!#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/tZnIXD5QGt
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) December 15, 2020
#UnityTip Did you know that you can use the profiler to profile the editor?!? 🤯#performance #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/dZVZj1rUhS
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) December 8, 2020
#UnityTips This is one pattern to distribute workload of multiple instances calling an expensive function.
Call a coroutine with a random delay offset and then start an InvokeRepeating with your expensive method.#coding #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/FZalVqPNOG
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) December 1, 2020
#UnityTips When you load scenes additive onto your control scene do not forget to set the new scene active.
Otherwise your scene lighting settings wont be applied properly.#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/YVvzIIgOdj
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) November 24, 2020
#UnityTips A way to reliably compare two GameObjects.
Use Object.RefrenceEquals(obj1, obj2)
Like this 👇
Also you can use to check if a GameObject is null by changing second GameObject to null.#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/MvfPqSZzFq
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) November 17, 2020
#UnityTips If you use the pattern [SerializeField] private int _myVar; and stumble upon the warning 0649 here are three ways to deal with it 👇#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/NIOGKfTLIw
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) November 10, 2020
#UnityTips
If you need screenshots in 4k from your project, try the Unity Recorder Package!Add „Image Sequence“ as the recorder & set the mode to „Manual“
Attention: With this setup an image is stored for each frame, good for running ParticleSystems#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/8LJwFeBeY3
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) November 3, 2020
#UnityTips Of course it is very good to know how to get from degree to radians ( rad = deg * PI / 180 )
But you could also use one of the constants from the Mathf library ( Mathf.Deg2Rad )#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/27zdWocZVH
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) October 27, 2020
#UnityTips Today two functions to return random points on a circle & a sphere, given a radius.
We wanted to highlight two very useful methods in Unitys Random class.#coding #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/Lk60ctBDDh
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) October 20, 2020
#UnityTips You can use extension methods to add functionality specific to a particular enum type.
In our example we use an enum to define neighbors on a square tiled board. And we add quality of life methods to the enumeration.#csharp #indiedev #gamedev pic.twitter.com/yUq6s6Vms7
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) October 13, 2020
#UnityTips You can use a LineRenderer for cheap fake volumetrics in the background to improve your visuals.
In the picture without and with two LineRenderers 👇#vfx #gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/T4jcXYpeOW
— Binary Impact (@BinaryImpactG) October 6, 2020
