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Optimizing Graphics in Unity

Rendering graphics in Unity is a complex task. This guide provides a better understanding of the underlying concepts related to rendering, and best practices for reducing the rendering workload on the GPU.

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Post Processing Effects: Bloom

Bloom gives the illusion of an extremely bright light and is a great way to enhance add visual ambiance to your Scene.

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Post Processing Effects: Tone Mapping

Tonemapping is the process of mapping color values from high dynamic range (HDR) to low dynamic range (LDR). In Unity, this means that for most platforms, the arbitrary 16-bit floating-point color values will be mapped to traditional 8-bit values.

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Post-process volumes allow you to affect all or just a subsection of your Scene. In this tutorial, we’ll look at using both global and local post process volumes, including how to use both in a single Scene.

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Introduction to the Post-Processing Stack - 2018

It’s useful to know the Post-Processing Stack, as it can really deliver amazing effects for your project. It’s applies effects after the main processing pipeline and enhances the overall look of a Scene. In this tutorial, you will learn about the Post-Pocessing Stack.

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2019.4

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Post Processing Effects: Vignette

Vignette is a useful tool to help focus the viewer’s attention on the center of the screen or to add a soft fade to the edges. The term comes from photography, where vignetting refers to darkening or desaturation towards the edges of an image.

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Introduction to Particle Systems

Unity features a robust Particle System where you can simulate moving liquids, smoke, clouds, flames, magic spells, and a whole slew of other effects. In this tutorial, you'll get a high level overview of the Particle System and its features, so that you can start getting ideas for your own projects.

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Creating a Global Post Processing Volume

Screen-based image effects add specialized filters to the application camera which can be used to drastically increase the visual quality of a project. Unity’s Post-Processing Stack replaces previous iterations of screen-based image effects and combines them all together in an easily configurable way. In this tutorial, you will learn to create and configure the post processing stack.

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Customizing Post-Processing Effects

In this tutorial you will look at where the post-processing profile is stored in the Unity Reflect Viewer Prefab and how to adjust it to fit your needs.

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Particles: Texture Sheet Animation

In the Particle System, you can use the Texture Sheet Animation module to select images for the Particle System to use in an animated effect. In this workflow, we’ll set up a Texture Sheet animation to randomly spawn different star images on the particles in a single emitter.

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