Objective: Explain Big O Big O Notation is a way of representing just how long an algorithm takes to execute. It can determine the efficiency of different approaches in solving a problem using sorting and search algorithms. Types of Big O Notation: O(1): Constant Time Complexity (Best case scenario) Always…

Objective: Static vs Dynamic UI There are some ways to optimize how the UI performs in Unity the first of which is to use multiple canvases. These should be split at minimum between static and dynamic. This is because Unity redraws the entire canvas when instead of just the canvas…

Objective: Optimization Areas When it comes to performance optimization, we have a few key topics that can make a massive difference to how your games perform. Caching: Let’s use the example in the image above. Looks pretty simple. Using GetComponent to get the Mesh Renderer, get it’s material then its…

Objective: New isn’t always better. Cached returns. In the previous post, we fixed an issue where Debug was causing some unwanted Garbage Collection. Unfortunately we have some but not nearly as much of the same with some Coroutines running as you can see in the image above. The biggest…

Objective: Utilize the Unity Profiler to Observe Game Performance As this is part of the last section, I felt it only right to test out the Unity Profiler on the first project of the program. To get the Profiler set up with the Project, go to Window, Analysis and Profiler…

Objective: Overview For the 7th section of the program, we will look into key topics of optimization and look at some specific topics such as the Unity Profiler, Code Optimization and Big O Notation. The focus of this section is to fine tune how we work and think in Unity…

Enterprise Apps This post is just a list of all the posts involved in the Enterprise Apps sections within part 6 of the GameDevHQ program.

Objective: Creating an AWS Manager in Unity To start we create an Empty gameobject and rename it to AWS_Manager. we then create a script called AWSManager and attach it to the gameobject. We then need to impost the AWS SDK for Unity. The SDK, documents link and previous post can…

Objective: Asset Bundles for Unity Asset Bundles allow you to release smaller versions of your game or app which can later download other aspects such as additional content, DLCs and parts of the project that may only be downloaded by a smaller group of users. Doing this allows the main…