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Low Power mode in Unity

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posted on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021
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In this article, I’ll show some ways to lower the power consumption of your Unity apps and games. But first, let’s talk about why we might consider doing this. Why bother? If you’re

Posted in Editor Tools, Graphics, Unity Programming

Custom Lighting in Shader Graph Part 2

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posted on October 11, 2021October 12, 2021
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In this article, we’ll continue to improve the workflow of the previous article, in which we created a process for converting Shader Graphs to a custom lighting function. The last article ended

Posted in Graphics, Unity Programming

Custom Lighting in URP with Shader Graph

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posted on October 4, 2021October 12, 2021
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This article will demonstrate how to support custom lighting functions when using URP and Shader Graph. We’ll start by exploring how Shader Graph works. Then, we’ll build a tool to

Posted in Architecture, Unity Programming

The Command pattern with Scriptable Objects

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posted on September 25, 2021September 25, 2021
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In this article, we’ll implement another classic programming pattern in Unity. This time, it’s the command pattern. Why use the Command Pattern? At its core, the command pattern makes

Posted in Architecture, Unity Programming

The Type Object pattern with Scriptable Objects

bronson
posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
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This article will demonstrate how to implement the Type Object pattern in Unity using Scriptable Objects. What problem does Type Object solve? There’s plenty of literature on the subject, but

Posted in Architecture, Unity Programming

The Scriptable Object Asset Registry Pattern

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posted on September 11, 2021September 21, 2021
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This article describes a pattern to serialize prefabs or any complex data. Doing so allows us to store data to disk or send it over a network to either a game server or another game client. This

Posted in Unity Programming, Utilities

Save Data with BinaryWriter and BinaryReader

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posted on August 28, 2021August 28, 2021
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This article will explore saving and loading data to a binary format through BinaryWriter and BinaryReader. Additionally, I’ll provide tips for structuring your save data. Let’s get into

Posted in Editor Tools, UI, Unity Programming

Scene Selector Tool

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posted on August 21, 2021August 21, 2021
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In this article, we’ll build a custom editor window to streamline scene navigation in our project. Along the way, we’ll learn about custom menu items and the ScriptableSingleton class and

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Unity Editor Tools: The Place Objects Tool part 2

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posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021
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In this post, we’ll complete the Place Objects Editor Tool from the previous post. If you haven’t read that post, you can find it here. In the last post, we covered the main tool

Posted in Editor Tools, Unity Programming

Unity Editor Tools: The Place Objects Tool

In this article, we’ll develop a custom editor tool to streamline placing objects in the scene. We’ll cover several helpful editor APIs, including EditorTool, PrefabUtility, Handles and