Presentation about small tips how to improve your efficiency when working with #Unity3D game engine.

1. Unity3D Tips and Tricks or
“You are doing it wrong!”
Taras Leskiv
Unity3D Developer

2. My experience
￭ Plumber Bob

3. 1. You don’t configure your
Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop
￭ In the perfect world (we all like to dream):
+
+

4. 1. You don’t configure your
Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop
￭ Problem – no iOS deployment.
￭ You probably do this
or more likely this
￭ When opened MonoDevelop the first time my reaction was like this:
(I am former Intellij Idea user)
– How does this IDE differ from text editor?

5. 1. You don’t configure your
Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop
￭ Do your homework and configure it! All you need is disabled by default.
￭ Use Monokai syntax highlighting! Why? More colors.

6. 1. You don’t configure your
Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop
￭ Do your homework – it is not that bad.

7. 2. You drag windows all over the
screen!
￭ Use layouts!

8. 2. You drag windows all over the
screen!
￭ Rearrange items wisely

9. 3. You make variables public to
see them in the inspector!
￭ Debug mode
￭ Minor stuff :
– Lock inspector view
– Ctrl (cmd) + D, ctrl + shift + N, ctrl + alt + N
– Snapping

10. 4. You copy and paste component
values manually!

11. 5. You don’t use attributes!
￭ [Range(-1, 1)] – int, float
￭ [RequireComponent(typof(SomeType))]
￭ [ExecuteInEditMode]

12. 6. You have a lot of objects in
your scene that are not prefabs!
￭ Every distinct object should be prefab – make every gameobject a prefab,
exception – empty objects as folders (benefits – no scene changes)
￭ Link prefabs to prefabs – move your connections out of the scene
￭ Establish links at programmatically where possible.

13. 7. You are nesting prefabs!
￭Just NEVER do this – build your
hierachy of prefabs at runtime.
(Child prefabs just becomes a
part of its parent prefab)

14. 8. You do not take advantage of
icons!
￭ Distinguish scripts – color libs.
￭ Mark scripts – Interfaces, abstract and static classes

15. 8. You do not take advantage of
icons!
￭ Make custom icons for objects in scene you have to find frequently.

16. 9. You don’t use .asset files to
store data!

17. Questions
Taras Leskiv
Unity3D Developer
developers.nravo.com
leskiv.taras@gmail.com
@tarasleskiv