A common question when building Unity games is which texture compression format will be the best. The criteria are: size on disk, memory footprint, performance.

We have many options in the Unity Engine: ETC1, ETC2, DXT3, DXT5, and so on. How do we choose? Let's look at some optimization ...

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In Unity there is a geometry issue with the child object of non-uniformly scaled parent. When the parent object does not have (1,1,1) scale, then the child object will be skewed weirdly when they rotate. This issue has been mentioned in the below references:

• http://answers.unity3d.com ...

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Unity does not provide a way to scale Shuriken particle system in Editor. The process to scale each particle system manually is very inconvenient.

There are some plugins on the Asset Store which can help you with this tasks:

• Simple Particle Scaler
• Particle Scaler

I've also written a tool ...

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Asset Bundle is a big topic in Unity. Initially, you want to grasp the basic setup and make something work. As your games get bigger, you might want to do more customization to make sure you have full control of the lifecycle. Here are some documents I've studied while ...

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Top 10 Parse Alternatives For Your Game Backend

• GameSparks
• PlayFab
• HeroicLabs
• Gamedonia
• Kii
• Kinvey
• BrainCloud
• GamuaFlox
• App42
• Photon

Why should you use GameSparks

GameSparks vs PlayFab vs Firebase

• Gamesparks vs PlayFab?
• Spaceteam uses GameSparks
• Firebase vs Playfab vs Gamesparks?

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Building Plugins for iOS is a guide from Unity.

Two approaches

• Approach 1: Put plugin source code .mm,.c,.cpp files in Assets/Plugins/iOS folder.
• Approach 2: Build plugin library to .a file then put it in Assets/Plugins/iOS

How to build Unity3d Plugin for iOS experience from ...

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Image Blur

• can use a camera which render to a rendered texture
• add the images to be rendered to a second canvas, which uses the new camera with screenspace-camera
• Add blur shader to the Camera, or a parent object which contains all images
• Add the rendered texture to anywhere you ...

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iOS device can connect to iOS device via Bluetooth using:

• MultiPeer Local Multiplayer Plugin
• GameCenter Multiplayer plugin
• U3DXT

Android device can connect to Android device via Bluetooth using:

• Android Bluetooth Multiplayer (Pro)

https://github.com/DarkRay/Unity3D-bluetooth A low level bluetooth library.

Android and iOS cannot connect to each other ...

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Unity 5.x exposes the sorting layer and order in layer of SpriterRenderer, but not MeshRenderer. Fortunately, it's very easy setting these property of the MeshRenderer in code. I've created a simple solution for setting sorting layer and order in layer of any Renderer component using a simple ...

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Normally we don't control the execution order of MonoBehaviour scripts, and we should not. However, there are cases where we do want some scripts to be executed before others. Some usecases include:

1. A Controller script that should be executed as the entry point to the scene
2. Scripts which use ...

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