Exploring the Editor Layout

Navigation in the Editor - 2019.1 & 2019.2

Project Organization

Working with the FBX Exporter Setup and Roundtrip - 2019.1, 2019.2

Importing Assets

Introduction to Nested Prefabs

Working with Scripts

Working with Switch Statements

Creating Basic UI with uGUI

Creating a Screen Space Overlay UI

Creating a Worldspace UI

Grouping and Layout Techniques for UI Components

QuickStart to TextMesh Pro

Introduction to Sprite Animations

Using 9-Slicing for Scalable Sprites

Working with YAMLMerge

Managing Projects with Multi-Scene Editing

Introduction to Optimization in Unity

Working with LODs

Working with the Stats Window

Working with the Frame Debugger

Working with the FBX Exporter Setup and Roundtrip

During development of any project in Unity, there will be a need to import assets, whether they be 3D or 2D. Assets come in various file formats such as .fbx, .png, and .tga. These are just a few, but are commonly used in Unity development. In this tutorial, you will learn different ways to bring in your assets.

Sprite Animations are animation clips that are created for 2D assets. There are various ways to create Sprite Animations. One way is to create them from a Sprite Sheet, a collection of Sprites arranged in a grid. The Sprites are then compiled into an Animation Clip that will play each Sprite in order to create the animation, much like a flipbook. Sprite Animations can also be created by using keyframe animation in Unity, via the Animation window.  

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Creating Sprite Animations Using Sprite Sheets

Import Settings

Sprite Editor

Slicing Sprite Sheets

Creating Sprite Animations from Selected Sprites

Creating Keyframe Animation

Blending Animations

Conclusion

Next Steps

What are Sprite Animations?

Unity allows you to have multiple scenes loaded simultaneously in the Unity Editor. Multi-scene editing allows you to lay out a huge game world one chunk at a time, moving everything into place, and even transfer assets from one scene to another. In this workflow, we’ll explore how we can use multi-scene editing to build a game world from modular sections.

Creating and Editing Multiple Scenes

Creating or Loading Additional Scenes for Multi-Scene Editing

Transferring Assets Between Scenes

Introduction

Setting up the first Scene

The Frame Debugger is a handy tool that allows you to freeze playback for a running game on a particular frame to view the individual draw calls used to render that frame. The debugger also lets you go through frames one-by-one so you can see in greater detail how the scene is constructed.  In this tutorial, you will learn about the Frame Debugger and how to use it for analysis.

The Frame Debugger

Using the Frame Debugger

How to get the most out of the Frame Debugger

Viewing Shader Properties

These Companion Tutorials are related to the activities of this instructor-led Workshop. These Tutorials will refresh your memory as you apply new skills to your own projects. Come back to these Tutorials as a reference as you proceed through your learning journey with Unity. 

Using workshop assets, or assets of your own, use these Tutorials to get up and running with Unity, focusing on the features you will need to build 3D mobile games. With these tutorials, you will add objects, animate objects, build UI components, and optimize your game’s performance. 

2019.4

2019.1

2018.4

Introduction to 3D Mobile Games for Engineers--Companion Tutorials (2019.1)

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The Stats Window

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Inside the Game window, there’s a Stats button in the top right corner. When this button is pressed, an overlay window appears. This window shows real-time rendering statistics, which is incredibly useful for optimizing performance. In this tutorial, you will learn about the Stats window and its uses.

Games

Automotive

Planning for Top Performance--Companion Tutorials (2019.3)

Introduction to 3D Mobile Games for Artists--Companion Tutorials (2018.4)

Profiling and Optimization in Unity--Companion Tutorials (2019.3 i)

Optimization and the Lightweight Render Pipeline--Companion Tutorials (2019.1) 

VR Curricular Framework Resources

AR Curricular Framework Resources 

Architecture, Engineering and Construction Curricular Framework Resources

Unity for Artists Curricular Framework Resources

AI, ML Curricular Framework Resources 

Verified in 2019.3 - https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-the-stats-window-2019-3

Inside the Game window, there’s a Stats button in the top right corner. When this button is pressed, an overlay window appears. This window shows real-time rendering statistics, which is incredibly useful for optimizing performance. The statistics displayed in the overlay window will vary depending on the build target you’ve defined.

2. In the top right corner of the window, click Stats (Figure 01). 

As you can see, the Statistics window contains quite a bit of information that’s displayed in two categories, Audio and Graphics.

The Audio section contains four important pieces of information about the current frame of the Scene (Figure 02). 

Level: The current sound decibel. If the audio is muted, you’ll see (MUTED) next to the decibel level.

Clipping: The percentage of audio distortion happening within the view.

Stream load: The total load of the audio stream.

DSP load: The total load of the DSP buffer.

The Graphics category of the overlay contains information about a given frame (Figure 03). 

FPS: The amount of time it takes to process and render one frame. This does not account for the time it takes to draw the Scene view, Inspector, and other Editor-only processing.

CPU: The time spent on the CPU and its rendering thread.

Batches: This is the batches where the engine attempts to combine the rendering of multiple objects into a chunk of memory in order to reduce CPU overhead due to resource switching.

Screen: The size of the screen along with the anti-aliasing level and memory usage.

SetPass calls: The number of rendering passes. 

Shadow casters: The number of shadow-casting objects within the view.

Visible skinned meshes: The number of skinned meshes rendered in the frame.

Animations: The number of animations playing. 

Figure 01: Statistics window

Figure 02: Audio statistics

Figure 03: Graphic statistics

The Stats overlay provides real-time feedback and statistics on your project. It’s a quick glance at what’s happening in the current frame and will help you pinpoint locations within the project that may be causing performance problems and should be further investigated within the Profiler window.  

Working with the Stats Window

1. The Stats Window

2. Conclusion

Complete this tutorial