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VFX artist Sakura Rabbit shares how she approaches digital art production and provides tips for creating realistic characters in Unity.

Advanced tips for character art production in Unity

Learn about the benefits and trade-offs of different ways to access the underlying pixel data of textures in your Unity project.

Accessing texture data efficiently

Two members of the Fika Productions art and animation team take you behind the scenes of the artistic journey they went through to develop the studio’s seafaring roguelite title, Ship of Fools.

The creative journey of designing Ship of Fools to float everyone's boat

It is not so common to have either resources or budget to author smoke, fire and explosion flipbooks in video game industry. Here are some image sequences we want to share with you under&nbsp;CC0 license. Feel free to use them in your projects.

At Unity Labs Paris, we are working on Real Time VFX R&amp;D tools and as such we authored over the time some sequences using Houdini to try out our tools. Today, we release some of these sequences under&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 license</a>&nbsp;so you can use them in your projects. These sequences comes in various flavors: either as raw frames sequences you can import and assemble into flipbooks using our&nbsp;experimental&nbsp;<a href="https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/release-thread-vfx-toolbox-image-sequencer.438465/">VFX Toolbox Image Sequencer</a>*, or already assembled flipbook texture sheets (done by us using this same tool). Image sequences are available in zip packages of two flavors, either as HDR Linear EXR* or as Uncompressed TGA *Please note that EXR support and the Image Sequencer are compatible with Unity 5.5 and newer

Free VFX image sequences and flipbooks

Saving data is critical for any game. Whether you need to save high scores, preferences, or a game state, Unity offers a variety of methods – from PlayerPrefs to serializing data, encrypting it, and writing to a file.

Persistent data: How to save your game states and settings

In this blog, Unity Senior Technical Product Manager Jeff Riesenmy offers a guide to the most important factors for developers to consider in order to get the most out of the Addressables system on a project.

Addressables: Planning and best practices

<a href="https://unity.com/features/ui-toolkit">UI Toolkit</a> is a collection of features, resources, and tools made for developing user interfaces and Editor extensions. First introduced as UI Elements, UI Toolkit offers a retained-mode UI framework to facilitate the development of custom UI for Unity Editor extensions.

Getting started with UI Toolkit at runtime

How to setup your 2D project for retro 8-bit games

Adding deep links within your Unity project is a simple way to drive users directly to specific content in a mobile app – no navigation required. That content becomes easily shareable and more interactive, bringing new users, guiding existing users to new content, and more. A deep link in a mobile app is a URL that brings a user directly to a specific in-app location. For example, deep links in a music app allow friends to share their favorite playlists, which automatically open in the music app. Embedded in search results, a deep link can take users directly to rich content in a particular app, rather than sending them to a website where they might have to enter search details again. In addition to taking users directly to the content they’re looking for, deep links give developers the ability to add logic to the link. For example, you can drive engagement in your game by letting users share rewards or gifts via a deep link URL in SMS (or another messaging system) or allow users to jump from one game to specific content in another game, creating seamless user experiences between them. This increases user engagement and reduces friction in your mobile apps. We introduced deep link support in Unity 2019.2 and it’s available for Android, iOS, and Universal Windows Platform (UWP). This blog post explains how you can get up and running with deep links in your Unity app.

Add deep links to your Unity mobile apps for better user experience

Learn how to leverage High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) settings to maximize performance and achieve powerful graphics all at once.

Get acquainted with HDRP settings for enhanced performance

Learn Isometric 2D environments with Tilemap

In <a href="https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/07/10/2018-2-is-now-available/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Unity 2018.2</a> we added the “Vertex Position” input to Shader Graph, allowing you to adjust and animate your meshes. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate how you can create your own vertex animation shaders, and provide some common examples such as a wind and a water shader. If you’re new to Shader Graph you can read <a href="https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/02/27/introduction-to-shader-graph-build-your-shaders-with-a-visual-editor/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tim Cooper’s blog post</a> to learn about the main features or watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsWNRLD-FEI" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Andy Touch’s “Shader Graph Introduction” talk</a> on the Unity YouTube channel.

Art that moves: Creating animated materials with Shader Graph

On the Spotlight Team, we work with the most ambitious Unity developers to try to push the boundary of what a Unity game can be. We see all sorts of innovative and brilliant solutions for complex graphics, performance, and design problems. We also see the same set of issues and solutions coming up again and again. This blog series is going to look at some of the most frequent problems we encounter while working with our clients. These are lessons hard won by the teams we have worked with, and we are proud to be able to share their wisdom with all our users. Many of these problems only become obvious once you are working on a console or a phone, or are dealing with huge amounts of game content. If you take these lessons into consideration early in the development cycle, you can make your life easier and your game much more ambitious.

Spotlight Team best practices: Optimizing the hierarchy

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