Shaders and Materials - Overview

Optimizing Shaders for Mobile Platforms

Transparencies

Additional Material and Shader Best Practices

Demo: Draw Calls and SRP Batcher

Explore how shaders and materials render 3D objects in your project and review the learning goals for this work.

Apply best practices to optimize mobile shaders using appropriate lit and unlit shaders in Unity.

Examine when and how to use transparent materials in a 3D mobile application, along with their trade-offs.

Review advanced best practices for optimizing Materials and Shaders in your 3D mobile application.

Experiment with the Scriptable Render Pipeline Batcher in URP and compare performance before and after enabling it.

Shaders and Materials play a crucial role in determining how target hardware will process and render your 3D objects. In this project, you will explore best practices that will keep the shaders lightweight and fast when running on phones with limited resources.

Shaders and Materials

Course Introduction

2019.4

The Optimization Process

Profiling Tools

Geometry - Introduction 

Triangle and Polygon Usage

Level of Detail

Additional Geometry Best Practices

Demo: Level of Detail

Textures - Introduction

Texture Size, Color Space, and Compression

Texture Atlases

Texture Filtering

Mipmapping

UV Unwrap, Visual Impact, and Texture Channel Packing

Alpha Channels and Normal Map Best Practices

Editing Texture Settings

Demo: Texture Atlases

Lighting - Overview

Light Modes and Types

Lighting for Static Objects

Light Probes

Shadows

Demo: Baked Lighting

Conclusion/Next Steps

Get an overview of the course structure and learn how to work with the included sample demo project.

Review a practical workflow for optimizing the performance of 3D mobile applications in Unity.

Explore Unity optimization tools to measure performance and find bottlenecks in your 3D mobile application.

Welcome to 3D Art Optimization for Mobile Applications! In this introductory project, we will review the course's main learning objectives, discuss the practice of optimization, and identify the optimization tools available at your disposal.

Introduction/Optimization and Profiling

Get an overview of the learning goals for optimizing geometry in a mobile 3D application.

Discover how to manage triangles in 3D models to optimize performance while preserving visual quality.

Learn how Level of Detail (LOD) improves 3D model appearance at different distances while optimizing performance.

Examine additional best practices for optimizing geometry in your mobile application.

Experiment with Level of Detail (LOD) to compare 3D model performance and visuals against non-LOD setups.

This project will highlight optimizations for 3D models that can make a game more efficient while maintaining aesthetic intent, improving the performance and experience on mobile devices. 

Geometry

Get an overview of why textures matter in 3D mobile applications and what you will learn in this project.

Learn how texture size, color space, and compression choices affect application performance.

Learn why organizing image details into texture atlases can improve performance and asset management.

Learn how different texture filtering settings affect image quality and when to use each option.

Learn how mipmaps optimize detailed texture rendering on mobile devices for better performance and visual quality.

Learn to show more detail in 3D mobile applications by refining UV layouts and applying texture channel packing.

Explore best practices for working with texture alpha channels and normal maps to improve your materials.

Review and adjust texture import settings to optimize visuals and performance in your 3D mobile application.

See how using texture atlases in a 3D mobile scene can reduce resource use and improve performance.

This project will highlight the different implementation considerations and optimizations that take advantage of a Texture’s flexibility. When given the correct settings and applied correctly over their many use cases, Textures play a major role in achieving your desired visual effects. 

Textures

Review why effective lighting matters in 3D mobile applications and what you will learn in this project.

Explore Unity light modes and types and compare their strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases.

Explore why lighting static objects matters and how to use lightmaps and global illumination effectively.

Explore when to use light probes to improve lighting quality and performance in your 3D mobile application.

Explore alternative techniques for implementing and optimizing shadows in your scene.

See how marking static objects and using baked lighting can improve 3D mobile performance compared to non-baked lighting.

Lighting is one of the most important aspects of real-time 3D visuals. It can set the mood, guide interactions, and identify goals and objectives. In this project, you will learn about and compare the differences between the available lights and light modes that you can use in your 3D mobile application.

Lighting

Review key takeaways from 3D Art Optimization for Mobile Applications and explore recommended next steps.

ARMUnityMobileOptimization.zip

이 중급 과정에서는 모바일 애플리케이션에 활용할 수 있도록 성능이 최적화된 3D 에셋과 씬을 제작하는 방법을 학습하며, 지오메트리, 텍스처, 머티리얼, 셰이더, 조명을 최적화하는 팁을 주제로 다뤄 보겠습니다. 이 과정은 테크니컬 아티스트와 콘텐츠 크리에이터를 대상으로 제작되었습니다.

Shaders and Materials

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