Game Dev Digest — Issue #261 - Networking, Tutorials and more

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Videos

- We've succeeded in the past to make a bunch of little balls behave like a fluid, but can we now make them look like a fluid too? In this video we'll explore a few different techniques, and also attempt a simple simulation of foam and spray to liven things up!

- Hello everyone and welcome to a new tutorial video! This time we will be taking a deep dive in to modeling and texturing a PS1 inspired retro model.

- Learn how to create stunning game levels using Unity's Pro Builder! This tutorial covers everything from installing the Pro Builder package to mastering tools like primitives, UV mapping, texturing, and snapping. You'll also explore advanced features such as creating custom shapes with Poly Shape, edge loops, bevels, and texture atlases. Whether you're prototyping or refining your game world, these techniques will elevate your design process.

- Chain of Responsibility is a powerful design pattern that shines in Unity development for creating modular, extensible systems. In this video, we explore its application through two examples: a quest system that cleanly handles state transitions like starting, completing, and failing quests, and a debugging toolkit that processes logs, state saves, and null checks in a dynamic and flexible way.

- Here is a FREE course that teaches you how to create procedural animations in Unity! Learn how to procedurally animate your characters in Unity3D! This t …

- Join the Unity Pro Training team as they teach the Unity Community how to build, rig and use a functional ragdoll, all with a holiday season twist!

- Netcode for Entities is Unity's awesomely fast toolstack for making multiplayer games with Unity DOTS. Here lets learn how to use it, how to set up a Unity 6 project, install the packages, connect the clients and server, synchronize entities with RPCs and Ghosts, while also looking at the various multiplayer debug tools and the Multiplayer Play Mode package.

- So throughout my programming journey, I have coded many cool projects from scratch, like 3D renderers, game engines, and even multiplayer. But there is one area that I was never brave enough to touch, and that is physics simulation. So if a car hits me tomorrow, I want to die happy knowing that I basically went through all the basic hard stuff in game development programming.



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- This plugin helps you view an object's Inspector in a separate tab/window, copy&paste the values of variables in the Inspector, inspect all variables of an object (including non-serializable and static variables) in an enhanced Debug mode and more.

- UI components for Unity that render shapes with outlines, shadows and rounded corners using signed distance functions (SDF). And an SDF texture editor that allows users to edit Bezier curves and convert them to SDF textures within the Unity editor.

- The ultimate Unity Text Mesh Pro helper package.

- Texture2D exporter, kind of

- A package for Unity that is designed to greatly simplify user interface development

- Unity's Microphone class, enhanced.

- The Steamworks C# implementations I found that were compatible with Unity have worked for a long time. But I hate them all. For a number of different reasons.

- Lib to read Clipboard Image data in Unity

- A High Performance Compute Shader Based Mesh Pathtracer in Unity3d without RT Cores

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- Unity Position Based Dynamics in two dimensions

- Toy path tracer for my own learning purposes (CPU/GPU, C++/C#, Win/Mac/Wasm, DX11/Metal, also Unity)

- Feature rich Unity Editor tool to help streamline the process of changing the paths of animations

- Largest Interior Rectangle implementation in C# for Unity.

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