When to use 2D Parametric Drop Shadows In terms of performance: it would be best to add drop shadow to… Read more How to Cheat Cheap 2D Parametric Drop Shadows (Soft / Hard) in Unity
Category: Technical Art
Optimisation Tips: Asset optimisation tools for games
Overview Texture optimization: baking, atlasing & channel packing Textures tend to cause the most common bottleneck in mobile games due… Read more Optimisation Tips: Asset optimisation tools for games
Trippy Skull Shader in Unity
This trippy shader uses a series of sine waves to create periodic and fluid-like effects, with a speed multiplier to… Read more Trippy Skull Shader in Unity
Hatching Shader in Unity
Shader Inktober study with Tonal Art Maps (TAMs): animated pen and ink hatching effect The outline effect is achieved with… Read more Hatching Shader in Unity
Shader Optimisation Tips & Dealing with Platform Fragmentation
Key Things to optimise the amount of memory used up by shader variables. the amount of textures the shader is using. Efficiency: try to produce… Read more Shader Optimisation Tips & Dealing with Platform Fragmentation
Forward Rendering in Unity & checking render order with Frame Debugger
How does it work? each object is rendered in a pass for each light that affects it. each object might be rendered… Read more Forward Rendering in Unity & checking render order with Frame Debugger
Made with Unity: D&D Character Viewer app and Character Creation Templates (Scriptable Object)
A D&D Character Viewer app made in Unity with the MVVM design pattern, responsive UI design and technical implementation(C#). A… Read more Made with Unity: D&D Character Viewer app and Character Creation Templates (Scriptable Object)
Tech Art Tips & Tricks: All About Displacement, Height, Normal & Bump Maps
What are the differences between bump maps, displacement maps, height maps and normal maps and when to use them? They… Read more Tech Art Tips & Tricks: All About Displacement, Height, Normal & Bump Maps
UI / UX / 2D Technical Art project: Yahtzee
Yahtzee with Buddies is a top-grossing free-to-play mobile game (it rolled past 1 million downloads in just 4 days). It… Read more UI / UX / 2D Technical Art project: Yahtzee
Shaders Challenge: Teleport Hologram (Gantz O + Cortana Style)
Tool used: Unity (Shadergraph + LWRP) Inspiration: The resurrection teleport scene effect in Gantz: O, Cortana from the Halo game… Read more Shaders Challenge: Teleport Hologram (Gantz O + Cortana Style)
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