Reference Manual

Refer to the information on these pages for details on working in-depth with various aspects of Unity.

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• Components
  • Pathfinding
    • NavMesh Agent (Pro Only)
    • Off-mesh links (Pro only)
    • Navmesh Obstacle
  • Animation Components
    • Animation
    • Animation Clip
    • Animator Component
    • Animator Controller
      • Animation States
      • Animation Transitions
      • Blend Trees
        • 1D Blending
        • 2D Blending
        • Additional Blend Tree Options
    • Creating the Avatar
    • Avatar Body Mask
    • Avatar Skeleton Mask
    • Human Template files
  • Asset Components
    • Audio Clip
    • Cubemap Texture
    • Models
      • Import settings for Meshes
      • FBX Importer, Rig options
      • FBX Importer - Animations Tab
    • Flare
    • Font
    • Material
    • Meshes
    • Movie Texture
    • Procedural Material Assets
    • Render Texture
    • Text Asset
    • Texture 2D
  • Audio Components
    • Audio Listener
    • Audio Source
    • Audio Filters (PRO only)
      • Audio Low Pass Filter (PRO only)
      • Audio High Pass Filter (PRO only)
      • Audio Echo Filter (PRO only)
      • Audio Distortion Filter (PRO only)
      • Audio Reverb Filter (PRO only)
      • Audio Chorus Filter (PRO only)
    • Reverb Zones.
    • Microphone
  • Physics Components
    • Box Collider
    • Capsule Collider
    • Character Controller
    • Character Joint
    • Configurable Joint
    • Constant Force
    • Fixed Joint
    • Hinge Joint
    • Mesh Collider
    • Physics Material
    • Rigidbody
    • Sphere Collider
    • Spring Joint
    • Interactive Cloth
    • Skinned Cloth
    • Wheel Collider
  • The GameObject
    • GameObject

• Image Effect Scripts
  • Antialiasing (PostEffect)
  • Bloom

• Bloom and Lens Flares
• Blur

• Camera Motion Blur
• Color Correction Curves
• Color Correction
• Color Correction Lookup Texture
• Contrast Enhance
• Contrast Stretch
• Crease
• Depth of Field 3.4
• Depth of Field
• Edge Detection
• Edge Detect Effect Normals
• Fisheye
• Global Fog
• Glow
• Grayscale
• Motion Blur
• Noise And Grain
• Noise
• Screen Overlay
• Sepia Tone
• Sun Shafts

• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)

• Tilt Shift
• Tonemapping
• Twirl
• Vignetting (and Chromatic Aberration)
• Vortex

• Settings Managers
  • Audio Manager
  • Editor settings
  • Input Manager
  • NavMesh Layers (Pro only)
  • Network Manager
  • Physics Manager
  • Player Settings
  • Quality Settings
  • Render Settings
  • Script Execution Order Settings
  • Tag Manager
  • Time Manager
• Mesh Components
  • Mesh Filter
  • Mesh Renderer
  • Skinned Mesh Renderer
  • Text Mesh
• Network Group
  • Network View
• Effects
  • Particle System (Shuriken)
  • Halo
  • Lens Flare
  • Line Renderer
  • Trail Renderer
  • Projector
  • Particle Systems (Legacy, prior to release 3.5)
    • Ellipsoid Particle Emitter (Legacy)
    • Mesh Particle Emitter (Legacy)
    • Particle Animator (Legacy)
    • Particle Renderer (Legacy)
    • World Particle Collider (Legacy)
• Rendering Components
  • Camera
  • Flare Layer
  • GUI Layer
  • GUI Text
  • GUI Texture
  • Light
  • Light Probe Group
  • Occlusion Area (Pro Only)
  • Occlusion Portals
  • Skybox
  • Level of Detail (Pro Only)
  • 3D Textures
• Transform Component
  • Transform
• UnityGUI Group
  • GUI Skin
  • GUI Style
• Wizards
  • Ragdoll Wizard

• Terrain Engine Guide
  • Using Terrains
  • Height
  • Textures
  • Trees
  • Grass
  • Detail Meshes
  • Terrain Engine Guide
  • Other Settings
• Tree Creator Guide
  • Building Your First Tree
  • Tree Creator Structure
  • Branch Group Properties
  • Leaf Group Properties
  • Tree - Wind Zones
• Animation View Guide
  • Using the Animation View (Legacy)
  • Using Animation Curves (Legacy)
  • Editing Curves
  • Objects with Multiple Moving Parts
  • Using Animation Events
• GUI Scripting Guide
  • GUI Basics
  • Controls
  • Customization
  • Layout Modes
  • Extending UnityGUI
  • Extending the Editor
• Network Reference Guide

• High Level Networking Concepts
• Networking Elements in Unity
• Network Views
• RPC Details
• State Synchronization Details
• Network Instantiate
• Network Level Loading
• Master Server
  • Building the Unity Networking Servers on your own
• Minimizing Network Bandwidth
• Social API

• Built-in Shader Guide
  • Performance of Unity shaders
  • Normal Shader Family
    • Vertex-Lit
    • Diffuse
    • Specular
    • Bumped Diffuse
    • Bumped Specular
    • Parallax Diffuse
    • Parallax Bumped Specular
    • Decal
    • Diffuse Detail
  • Transparent Shader Family
    • Transparent Vertex-Lit
    • Transparent Diffuse
    • Transparent Specular
    • Transparent Bumped Diffuse
    • Transparent Bumped Specular
    • Transparent Parallax Diffuse
    • Transparent Parallax Specular
  • Transparent Cutout Shader Family
    • Transparent Cutout Vertex-Lit
    • Transparent Cutout Diffuse
    • Transparent Cutout Specular
    • Transparent Cutout Bumped Diffuse
    • Transparent Cutout Bumped Specular
  • Self-Illuminated Shader Family
    • Self-Illuminated Vertex-Lit
    • Self-Illuminated Diffuse
    • Self-Illuminated Specular
    • Self-Illuminated Normal mapped Diffuse
    • Self-Illuminated Normal mapped Specular
    • Self-Illuminated Parallax Diffuse
    • Self-Illuminated Parallax Specular
  • Reflective Shader Family
    • Reflective Vertex-Lit
    • Reflective Diffuse
    • Reflective Specular
    • Reflective Bumped Diffuse
    • Reflective Bumped Specular
    • Reflective Parallax Diffuse
    • Reflective Parallax Specular
    • Reflective Normal Mapped Unlit
    • Reflective Normal mapped Vertex-lit
• Unity's Rendering behind the scenes
  • Deferred Lighting Rendering Path
  • Forward Rendering Path Details
  • Vertex Lit Rendering Path Details
  • Hardware Requirements for Unity's Graphics Features
• Shader Reference
  • Writing Surface Shaders
    • Surface Shader Examples
    • Custom Lighting models in Surface Shaders
    • Surface Shader Lighting Examples
    • Surface Shaders with DX11 Tessellation
  • Writing vertex and fragment shaders
    • Accessing shader properties in Cg
    • Providing vertex data to vertex programs
    • Built-in shader include files
    • Predefined shader preprocessor macros
    • Built-in state variables in shader programs
    • GLSL Shader Programs
  • ShaderLab syntax: Shader
    • ShaderLab syntax: Properties
    • ShaderLab syntax: SubShader
      • ShaderLab syntax: Pass
        • ShaderLab syntax: Color, Material, Lighting
        • ShaderLab syntax: Culling & Depth Testing
        • ShaderLab syntax: Texture Combiners
        • ShaderLab syntax: Fog
        • ShaderLab syntax: Alpha testing
        • ShaderLab syntax: Blending
        • ShaderLab syntax: Pass Tags
        • ShaderLab syntax: Name
        • ShaderLab syntax: BindChannels

• ShaderLab syntax: UsePass
• ShaderLab syntax: GrabPass
• ShaderLab syntax: SubShader Tags

• ShaderLab syntax: Fallback
• ShaderLab syntax: CustomEditor
• ShaderLab syntax: other commands

• Advanced ShaderLab topics
  • Unity's Rendering Pipeline
  • Performance Tips when Writing Shaders
  • Rendering with Replaced Shaders
  • Custom Material Editors
  • Using Depth Textures
  • Camera's Depth Texture
  • Platform Specific Rendering Differences
  • Shader Level of Detail
• ShaderLab builtin values

• Scripting Concepts
  • Layers
    • Layer-Based Collision Detection.
  • What is a Tag?
  • Rigidbody Sleeping

Page last updated: 2011-04-05