Unity - Manual: Collect performance data about the Unity Editor

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Unity 6.2 Beta User Manual
- Documentation versions
- Offline documentation
- Trademarks and terms of use
What's new in Unity
- New in Unity 6.1
- New in Unity 6.0
- New in Unity 6.0 Preview
- New in Unity 2023.2
- New in Unity 2023.1
Unity for first-time users
- Create your first project
- 2D and 3D projects
- Getting started with AI in Unity
- Key concepts
Install and upgrade
- Install Unity
- Deploy Unity across your enterprise
  - Enable Unity installation by standard users (Windows)
  - Use Unity through web proxies
- Licenses and activation
- Upgrade Unity
The Editor interface
- The Project window
- The Scene view
  - Overlays
  - Scene view grid snapping
  - Pick and select GameObjects in the Scene view
  - Position GameObjects
  - Scene view navigation
  - Scene view Camera
  - Control a camera in first person
  - Scene visibility
  - Scene view Draw Modes and View Options overlays
  - Gizmos and handles
    - Gizmos menu
    - Programming with gizmos and handles
  - Scene view context menu
  - Custom Editor tools
- The Game view
- Device Simulator
  - Device Simulator introduction
  - The Simulator view
  - Simulated classes
  - Adding a device
  - Extending the device simulator
- The Hierarchy window
- The Inspector window
  - Manage the Inspector window
  - Inspect items
  - Focus an Inspector window
  - Assign icons to inspected items
  - Manage components and their values
- The Toolbar
  - The AI menu
- The status bar
- The Background Tasks window
- Console window
- Additional windows
- Undo
- Search in the Editor
- Customizing your workspace
- Preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
  - Keyboard shortcut concepts
  - Shortcuts window reference
  - Manage keyboard shortcuts
  - Manage shortcut profiles
- Project Settings
  - Use the Project Settings window
  - Audio
  - Editor
  - Graphics
  - Package Manager
  - Physics
  - Physics 2D reference
  - Player
    - Splash Image Player settings
  - Preset Manager
  - Quality settings tab reference
  - Script Execution Order reference
  - Services
    - Diagnostics
  - Tags and Layers
  - Time
  - UI Toolkit project settings
  - Version Control
- 2D and 3D mode settings
- Save your work
- Editor analytics
- Troubleshoot the Editor
- Unity Search
  - Launch and use the Search window
  - Act on search results
  - Manage results tables
  - Focus searches with search providers
    - Use search providers
    - Activate and deactivate search providers
  - Search provider references
  - Visual query builder reference
  - Textual query references
  - Manage search queries
    - Invoke from the main menu
  - Create a custom search provider
  - Manage search indices
Packages and package management
- Get started with packages
- Dependencies
- The Package Manager window
- Package management with the Package Manager window
- Package management with the scripting API
  - Scripting API for packages
  - Access package assets using scripts
- Package management with the project manifest file
  - Project manifest file
- Package inspection
  - Package Manifest window reference
  - Inspect packages
- Packages
- Feature sets
- Git dependencies
  - Use private repositories with HTTPS Git URLs
  - Use passphrase-protected SSH keys with SSH Git URLs
- Package Manager caches
- Scoped registries
- Package Manager configuration
  - Configuration files
  - Configure your network for Package Manager
- Create custom packages
- Package Manager troubleshooting
  - Diagnose network issues
Assets and media
- Introduction to assets in Unity
- Importing assets
- Caching assets
- Managing assets with the Asset Database
- Reusing settings with preset assets
- Managing assets at runtime
- Scripting with assets
  - Stream assets directly into a build
  - Modify source assets from code
- Distribute assets as packages
- Analyzing asset processes
- Unity's Asset Store
2D game development
- Introduction to 2D
- Get started with 2D game development
- 2D renderer sorting
- Sprites
- Tilemaps in Unity
- 2D physics
- 2D game development in URP
  - 2D lighting in URP
  - Precise pixel scaling and rotation via the Pixel Perfect Camera in URP
Get started with 3D game development
XR
- Overview
- XR project set up
- Run an XR application
- XR graphics
- XR audio
  - Audio spatializers in XR
- Unity XR SDK
Multiplayer
- Unity multiplayer overview
- Use the Multiplayer Center
Platform development
- Cross-platform features and considerations
- Android
- Dedicated Server
- Embedded systems
- iOS
- Linux
- macOS
- tvOS
- Universal Windows Platform
- visionOS
- Web
- Windows
GameObjects
- Introduction to GameObjects
- GameObject fundamentals
- Primitive and placeholder objects
  - Types of 2D primitive GameObjects
- Components
- Models
  - Creating models outside of Unity
  - Importing models into Unity
- Meshes
- Prefabs
- Constraints
Scenes
- Introduction to scenes
- Creating, loading, and saving Scenes
- Work with multiple scenes in Unity
- Scene Templates
- Layers
- Tags
- Text-based Scene files
Cameras
- Introduction to cameras
- The camera view
- Using multiple cameras
- Changing resolution scale
  - Introduction to changing resolution scale
  - Dynamic Resolution
- Excluding hidden objects with occlusion culling
- Simulating real-world cameras with Physical Cameras
- Camera output
- Cameras in URP
- Cameras in the Built-In Render Pipeline
  - Set the camera background with Clear Flags in the Built-In Render Pipeline
  - Camera Inspector window reference for the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Troubleshooting cameras
World building
- Sky
- Terrain
- Terrain and the Terrain Tools package
Physics
- Built-in 3D physics
Input
- Mobile Keyboard
- Unity XR Input
- Legacy Input
  - Input Manager
  - Mobile device input
- IME in Unity
UI systems
- Comparison of UI systems in Unity
- UI Toolkit
- Unity UI
- IMGUI (Immediate Mode GUI)
Animation
- Mecanim Animation system
- Legacy Animation system
  - Legacy Animation component
Audio
- Audio overview
- Audio files
- Tracker Modules
- Audio Mixer
- Native audio plug-in SDK
- Audio playlist randomization
- Audio Profiler module reference
- Ambisonic Audio
  - Develop an ambisonic audio decoder
- Audio Reference
Video and cutscenes
- Video sources
- Video Player
- Video Profiler module reference
Lighting
- Introduction to lighting
- Lighting configuration workflow
- Light sources
- Direct and indirect lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Lighting in URP
- Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Optimize lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Lighting reference
Materials and shaders
- Materials
- Prebuilt materials and shaders
- Custom textures
- Custom shaders
- Color and High Dynamic Range (HDR)
  - Color spaces
  - High dynamic range (HDR)
- Shader Import Settings window reference
Visual effects
- Particle effects
- Decals
- Lens flares
- Light halos
  - Create and configure a halo light effect
  - Halo component reference
- Lines and trails
  - Rendering lines
  - Rendering trails
- Visual Effect Graph
Render pipelines
- Introduction to render pipelines
- Scriptable Render Pipeline fundamentals
- Choosing a render pipeline
- Rendering paths in Unity
- Using the Universal Render Pipeline
- Using the High Definition Render Pipeline
- Using the Built-In Render Pipeline
Post-processing
- Introduction to post-processing
- Post-processing effect availability reference
- Post-processing and full-screen effects in URP
Programming in Unity
- Get started with programming in Unity
- Environment and tools
  - Integrated development environment (IDE) support
  - Unity .NET features
- Object-oriented development
- Compilation and code reload
- Code optimization
- Testing your code
- Debugging and diagnostics
Optimization
- Memory in Unity
- Unity Profiler
- Profiling tools
- Graphics performance and profiling
Building and publishing
- Build profiles
- Incremental build pipeline
- Visual Studio C# integration
- RenderDoc integration
- Version control
- Command-line arguments
  - Unity Editor command line arguments
  - Unity Standalone Player command line arguments
Unity Services
- Unity IAP
Best practice guides
Troubleshooting
Glossary

Unity Manual

Collect performance data about the Unity Editor

Profile the Editor’s startup times

Additional resources