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Live Session Recording - How to Profile and Optimize a Game

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Intermediate

+10 XP

50 Mins

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Live

Summary

Watch the recording of this live virtual session where you will learn how to use Unity's tools to diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems in this simple maze game. In the game, the player has to navigate through the maze, while avoiding enemy NPCs. The application is experiencing some performance issues, that you will need to address. The optimization routes taken in this project are common throughout many Unity projects and understanding these techniques will allow you to optimize your own projects. Throughout this session, you will learn how to: 
Understand the Profiler’s role in Unity development
Navigate the Profiler to locate the source(s) of an application’s performance issue
Understand how to benchmark a scripts performance to gauge improvement
Identify specific methods and api calls that are performance intensive
Acknowledge some common alternatives for performance issues
Use the Lighting Window to modify lighting settings in Unity
Understand how to implement Baked, Mixed, and Realtime lighting and the corresponding trade offs of each
Use the Occlusion Culling Window to configure occlusion culling in a Unity Scene
Understand the trade offs associated with Occlusion Culling