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- Working with GameObjects
- Introduction to GameObjects
- GameObject fundamentals
- Primitive and placeholder objects
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- Cameras
- Introduction to cameras
- The camera view
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- Occlusion culling
- Set up a scene for occlusion culling
- Set up multiple scenes for occlusion culling
- Cull moving GameObjects
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- Control occlusion in areas with Occlusion Portals
- Occlusion Culling window reference
- Configure culling with the CullingGroup API
- Troubleshooting occlusion culling
- Simulating real-world cameras with Physical Cameras
- Camera output
- Cameras in URP
- Introduction to cameras in URP
- Camera render types in URP
- Multiple cameras in URP
- Camera render order in URP
- Motion vectors in URP
- Upscaling resolution in URP with Spatial-Temporal Post-Processing
- Access camera data with the Universal Additional Camera Data component in URP
- Camera Inspector windows reference for URP
- Cameras in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Troubleshooting cameras
- 2D in Unity
- Introduction to 2D
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- Tilemaps
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- Create a tilemap
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- Tilemap component reference
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- Troubleshoot mismatched Cell Layouts
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- New tile palette properties reference
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- 2D Physics
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- Physics 2D Profiler
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- 2D game development in URP
- 2D lighting in URP
- Types of 2D lights
- Set up the 2D Renderer asset in URP
- Prepare and upgrade sprites for 2D lighting in URP
- Enable 2D lighting with the Tilemap Renderer in URP
- Blend Modes in 2D lighting
- Create shadows with Shadow Caster 2D in URP
- Create a 2D sprite lit Shader Graph in URP
- Light a VFX Graph asset with 2D lights in URP
- Optimizing 2D lights
- 2D Renderer asset component reference for URP
- Light Blend Styles component reference for URP
- Precise pixel scaling and rotation via the Pixel Perfect Camera in URP
- 2D lighting in URP
- Troubleshooting
- Assets and media
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- Creating and editing Terrains
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- Terrain Settings reference
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- Terrain Tools package
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- Comparison of UI systems in Unity
- UI Toolkit
- Introduction to UI Toolkit
- Get started with UI Toolkit
- UI Builder
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- The visual tree
- Structure UI with UXML
- Structure UI with C# scripts
- Custom controls
- Best practices for managing elements
- Encapsulate UXML documents with logic
- Visual elements reference
- BindableElement
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- Structure UI examples
- Create list and tree views
- Create a complex list view
- Create a list view runtime UI
- Wrap content inside a scroll view
- Create a tabbed menu
- Create a pop-up window
- Use Toggle to create a conditional UI
- Create a custom control with two attributes
- Create a slide toggle custom control
- Create a bindable custom control
- Create a custom style for a custom control
- Create a drag-and-drop list and tree views between windows
- Create an aspect ratio custom control
- Create a custom inventory property drawer
- Style UI
- UI Toolkit Debugger
- Control behavior with events
- UI Renderer
- Data binding
- Comparison of the binding systems
- Runtime data binding
- SerializedObject data binding
- Introduction to SerializedObject data binding
- Bindable elements reference
- Bindable data types and fields
- Binding system implementation details
- Binding examples
- Bind with binding path in C# script
- Bind without the binding path
- Bind with UXML and C# script
- Create a binding with the Inspector
- Bind to nested properties
- Bind to a UXML template
- Receive callbacks when a bound property changes
- Receive callbacks when any bound properties change
- Bind to a list with ListView
- Bind to a list without ListView
- Bind a custom control
- Bind a custom control to custom data type
- Support for Editor UI
- Support for runtime UI
- Work with text
- Examples
- Migration guides
- Unity UI
- IMGUI (Immediate Mode GUI)
- Animation
- Physics
- Built-in 3D Physics
- Character control
- Rigidbody physics
- Collision
- Joints
- Articulations
- Ragdoll physics
- Cloth
- Multi-scene physics
- Physics Debug window reference
- Physics Profiler module
- Built-in 3D Physics
- Lighting
- Introduction to lighting
- Lighting configuration workflow
- Light sources
- Direct and indirect lighting
- Lighting data
- Precalculating surface lighting with lightmaps
- Global illumination
- Baking lightmaps before runtime
- Creating lightmaps at runtime with Enlighten Realtime Global Illumination
- Configuring lightmapping
- Lightmap UVs
- Precalculating indirect light with Light Probes
- Save and load lighting settings with Lightmap Parameters Assets
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Lighting in URP
- Introduction to lighting in the Universal Render Pipeline
- Light limits in URP
- View and control a light from its perspective in URP
- Shadows in URP
- Reflections in URP
- Adaptive Probe Volumes (APV) in URP
- Introduction to Adaptive Probe Volumes
- Use Adaptive Probe Volumes
- Display Adaptive Probe Volumes
- Configure the size and density of Adaptive Probe Volumes
- Bake multiple scenes together with Baking Sets
- Changing lighting at runtime
- Optimize loading Adaptive Probe Volume data
- Troubleshooting Adaptive Probe Volumes
- Adaptive Probe Volume Inspector reference
- Adaptive Probe Volumes panel reference
- Probe Volumes Options Override reference
- Probe Adjustment Volume component reference
- Rendering Layers in URP
- Custom lighting in URP
- Universal Additional Light Data component in URP
- Light component Inspector window reference for URP
- Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Per-pixel and per-vertex lights in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Emit light from a GameObject in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Create cookies in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Customize how shaders contribute lightmap data in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Shadows in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Configure a GameObject to sample more Light Probes in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Introduction to Light Probe Proxy Volumes in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Set a GameObject to use a Light Probe Proxy Volume in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Configure a Light Probe Proxy Volume in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Light Probe Proxy Volume component reference for the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Add Light Probe Proxy Volume support to a custom shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Blend Reflection Probes in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Light component Inspector window reference for the Built-In-Render-Pipeline
- Optimize lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Lighting reference
- Materials and shaders
- Textures
- Get started with textures
- Import a texture
- 2D texture arrays
- Cubemaps
- 3D textures
- Rendering to a texture
- Playing video in Movie Textures
- Texture optimization
- Loading textures in the background
- Optimizing GPU texture memory with mipmap streaming
- Sparse Textures
- Streaming Virtual Texturing
- Streaming Virtual Texturing requirements and compatibility
- How Streaming Virtual Texturing works
- Enabling Streaming Virtual Texturing in your project
- Using Streaming Virtual Texturing in Shader Graph
- Cache Management for Virtual Texturing
- Marking textures as "Virtual Texturing Only"
- Virtual Texturing error material
- Virtual Texturing Profiler module
- Textures reference
- Texture Import Settings window reference
- Default texture Import Settings window reference
- Normal Map texture Import Settings window reference
- Editor GUI and Legacy GUI texture Import Settings window reference
- Sprite (2D and UI) texture Import Settings window reference
- Cubemap texture Import Settings window reference
- 3D texture preview reference
- Cursor texture Import Settings window reference
- Cookie texture Import Settings window reference
- Lightmap texture Import Settings window reference
- Lightmap texture Import Settings window reference
- Shadowmask texture Import Settings window reference
- Single Channel texture Import Settings window reference
- Movie Texture Inspector window reference
- Render Texture Inspector window reference
- Custom Render Texture Inspector window reference
- Shaders
- Introduction to shaders
- Prebuilt shaders
- Prebuilt shaders render pipeline compatibility reference
- Configuring material properties in prebuilt shaders
- Legacy prebuilt shaders
- Writing custom shaders
- Creating shaders with Shader Graph
- Writing shaders in code
- Introduction to writing shaders in code
- Shader object fundamentals
- Writing a custom shader in ShaderLab and HLSL
- Create a shader file
- Add a subshader in a custom shader
- Add a shader pass in a custom shader
- Include a shader pass with the UsePass command
- Writing HLSL shader programs
- Setting the render state on the GPU
- Enable conservative rasterization in a shader
- Set the culling mode in a shader
- Set the depth bias in a shader
- Set the depth clip mode in a shader
- Set the depth testing mode in a shader
- Disable writing to the depth buffer in a shader
- Check or write to the stencil buffer in a shader
- Set the blending mode in a shader
- Set the color channels the GPU renders to
- Reduce aliasing with AlphaToMask mode
- Group commands with the Category block
- Adding material properties to shaders
- Changing how shaders work via branching and keywords
- Branching in shaders
- Shader keywords
- Configure when and if Unity uses a shader
- Introduction to shader tags
- Add a shader tag to a SubShader or Pass
- Set a shader to require URP or HDRP
- Set a shader to require a graphics API or platform
- Set a shader to require a shader model or GPU feature
- Set a shader to require a package
- Set the render queue of a shader
- Set when Unity runs a shader pass via a LightMode tag
- Prioritize lower quality shaders with the LOD command
- Disable dynamic batching of a shader
- Get tag values in a script
- Troubleshooting package requirement definitions
- Compute shaders
- Optimize shaders
- Shaders in URP
- Shading models in URP
- Choose a prebuilt shader in URP
- Assign a shader to a material in URP
- Reduce shader variants in URP
- Writing custom shaders in URP
- Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Blending Modes in URP
- Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Simple Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Complex Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Baked Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Unlit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Terrain Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Particles Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Particles Simple Lit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Particles Unlit Shader Material Inspector window reference for URP
- Canvas Shader Graph
- Shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Prebuilt shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Standard Shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Introduction to the Standard Shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Choose a metallic or specular shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Configuring material properties in the Standard Shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Make a material transparent
- Set the color of a material in the Standard Shader
- Configure reflections with the Standard Shader
- Configure edge reflections (Fresnel effect)
- Configure specular reflections in the Standard Shader
- Configure smoothness with the Standard Shader
- Set the Rendering Mode in the Standard Shader using a script
- Standard Shader realistic settings in the Built-In Render Pipeline reference
- Customize the Standard shader source code in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Standard Shader Material Inspector window reference for the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Particle shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Autodesk Interactive shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Standard Shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Replace shaders at runtime in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Writing custom shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Writing Surface Shaders
- Introduction to surface shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Surface Shader output structures in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Surface Shaders and rendering paths in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Create a surface shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Set the lighting model in a Surface Shader in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Optimize Surface Shaders
- Surface Shader examples in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Normal mapping Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Reflection Surface Shader examples in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Vertex modifier Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Custom data Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Final color modifier Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Decals Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Wrapped diffuse Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Toon shading Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Global illumination Surface Shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Tessellation Surface Shader examples in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Surface Shader language reference for the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Shader methods in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Get the current framebuffer with the GrabPass command
- HLSL shader examples in the Built-in Render Pipeline
- Single color shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Checkerboard pattern shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Simple unlit shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Mesh normals shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Reflections shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Normal map texturing shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Tri-planar texturing shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Simple diffuse lighting shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Ambient light shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Shadow casting shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Receiving shadows shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Fog shader example in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Visualizing vertex data shader examples in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Writing Surface Shaders
- Prebuilt shaders in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Troubleshooting shaders
- Shader languages reference
- ShaderLab language reference
- Shader in ShaderLab reference
- SubShader in ShaderLab reference
- Pass in ShaderLab reference
- GPU render state commands in ShaderLab reference
- AlphaToMask command in ShaderLab reference
- Blend command in ShaderLab reference
- BlendOp command in ShaderLab reference
- ColorMask command in ShaderLab reference
- Conservative command in ShaderLab reference
- Cull command in ShaderLab reference
- Offset command in ShaderLab reference
- Stencil command in ShaderLab reference
- ZClip command in ShaderLab reference
- ZTest command in ShaderLab reference
- ZWrite command in ShaderLab reference
- PackageRequirements block in ShaderLab reference
- ShaderLab legacy functionality reference
- HLSL pragma directives reference
- HLSL pragma target command reference
- HLSL pragma require command reference
- Built-in shader variables reference
- ShaderLab language reference
- Shader Import Settings window reference
- Materials
- Textures
- Visual effects
- Particle systems
- Choosing your particle system solution
- Create and view a Particle System
- Vary Particle System properties over time
- Configuring particles
- Access the Particle System from the Animation system
- Custom data streams in Particle Systems
- Particle System optimization
- Particle System component reference
- Particle System module component reference
- Activate and access Particle System modules
- Main module reference
- Emission module reference
- Shape module reference
- Velocity over Lifetime module reference
- Noise module reference
- Limit Velocity over Lifetime module reference
- Inherit Velocity module reference
- Lifetime by Emitter Speed module reference
- Force over Lifetime module reference
- Color over Lifetime module reference
- Color by Speed module reference
- Size over Lifetime module reference
- Size by Speed module reference
- Rotation over Lifetime module reference
- Rotation by Speed module reference
- External Forces module reference
- Collision module reference
- Triggers module reference
- Sub Emitters module reference
- Texture Sheet Animation module reference
- Lights module reference
- Trails module reference
- Renderer module reference
- Particle System Force Field component reference
- Decals and projectors
- Lens flares
- Light halos
- Lines and trails
- Visual Effect Graph
- Particle systems
- Rendering
- Render pipelines
- Introduction to render pipelines
- Scriptable Render Pipeline fundamentals
- Choosing a render pipeline
- Rendering paths in Unity
- Using the Universal Render Pipeline
- Introduction to the Universal Render Pipeline
- Requirements and compatibility for URP
- What's new in URP 17 (Unity 6)
- Get started with URP
- Universal Render Pipeline fundamentals
- Installing and upgrading URP
- Creating a URP project
- Troubleshooting magenta shaders after importing assets
- Upgrading from the Built-In Render Pipeline to URP
- Upgrade URP
- Upgrade to URP 17 (Unity 6.0)
- Upgrade to URP 16 (Unity 2023.2)
- Upgrade to URP 15 (Unity 2023.1)
- Upgrade to URP 14 (Unity 2022.2)
- Upgrade to URP 13 (Unity 2022.1)
- Upgrade to URP 12 (Unity 2021.2)
- Upgrade to version 11.0.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 10.1.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 10.0.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 9.0.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 8.2.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 8.1.x of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 8.0.0 of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 7.4.0 of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 7.3.0 of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade to version 7.2.0 of the Universal Render Pipeline
- Upgrade from the Lightweight Render Pipeline to the Universal Render Pipeline
- Known issues in URP
- Configure for better performance in URP
- Troubleshooting magenta shaders after importing assets
- Graphics quality settings in URP
- Add anti-aliasing in the Universal Render Pipeline
- Custom rendering and post-processing in URP
- Introduction to Scriptable Render Passes in URP
- Adding pre-built effects via Renderer Features in URP
- Custom render pass workflow in URP
- Blit in URP
- Render graph system in URP
- Introduction to the render graph system in URP
- Write a render pass using the render graph system in URP
- Textures in the Render Graph system in URP
- Frame data in the render graph system in URP
- Draw objects in the render graph system in URP
- Compute shaders in the render graph system in URP
- Analyze a render graph in URP
- Optimize a render graph
- Use Compatibility Mode APIs in render graph render passes
- Render Graph Viewer window reference for URP
- Adding a Scriptable Render Pass to the frame rendering loop in URP
- Modify URP source code
- Compatibility Mode in URP
- Universal Render Pipeline reference
- Using the High Definition Render Pipeline
- Using the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Post-processing and full-screen effects
- Introduction to post-processing
- Post-processing effect availability reference
- Post-processing and full-screen effects in URP
- Post-processing in URP
- Introduction to post-processing in URP
- Add post-processing in URP
- Volumes in URP
- Post-processing Volume Overrides reference for URP
- Bloom Volume Override reference for URP
- Channel Mixer Volume Override reference for URP
- Chromatic Aberration Volume Override reference for URP
- Color Adjustments Volume Override reference for URP
- Color Curves Volume Override reference for URP
- Color Lookup Override reference for URP
- Depth of Field in URP
- Film Grain Volume Override reference for URP
- Lens Distortion Volume Override reference for URP
- Lift Gamma Gain Volume Override reference for URP
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Group GameObjects together in a lightmap with Baked Tags
The two images below shows two views of the same SceneA Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces. More info
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