https://youtu.be/zSF9oQNiPTk It’s time we publish on Sidequest. If you don’t know what Sidequest is, think of it like Itch.io, but specifically for VR. Developers can use this platform to test out their prototypes and build communities around their early access games. Sidequest even acts as a discovery platform for Applab, which is Oculus’s platform […]
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https://youtu.be/slh0VFoWJZU Itch.io is a website that allows indie developers to publish and sell their games. They also help people host their own game jams so developers can practice their game dev skills. Whether you’re looking for people to test out your prototype, submitting a game jam game or trying to sell a completed project, you
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https://youtu.be/qxtttd34vEI The investor that I’m referencing here is a legend in the investing world named Charlie Munger. If you don’t know him, you might know his partner, Warren Buffet. These investors have beaten that market for decades and continue to do so at the young ages of their 90s. So what does Charlie Munger have
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KGHef4L68o One problem we can run into when developing our games can occur when we Instantiate and Destroy hundreds of Objects in a short period of time. A good example of this would be having a gun that generates hundreds of bullets when we shoot a gun. The bullets would be Instantiated upon pulling the
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https://youtu.be/T13h3So6oFU If we want to have dynamic lighting in our games, we should learn how to use Light Probes. Light Probes are an invaluable tool in Unity for creating realistic lighting effects. These probes store information about how lighting behaves in a particular area and can be used to create dynamic lighting effects. This blog
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https://youtu.be/f39WZcOZ1kw Lighting can make a game go from bland to incredible. With the correct light we can help build strong player immersion in our VR experience. The one drawback is that lighting can quickly add to our draw calls and burden our VR experiences to the point that it’s no longer playable. Let’s fix that
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https://youtu.be/OqpS2z_I3hU If we want to get the most out of Unity and optimize our performance, we’re going to need an efficient way to display lighting and shadows. The best way to do this is through the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). The URP was developed to provide optimized performance for developers who are targeting a wide
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQFRKlgL24 The Quest 2 has taken up a massive amount of market share within the VR market. It only makes sense to help target and optimize for it! We look again to Meta for guidance as to what Unity settings work best for the Quest 2. If you’d like to take a look, you can
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMA5-WqkEAo&ab_channel=FistFullofShrimp Let’s talk about optimization, this time let’s go over draw calls! What is a Draw Call? Whenever we need to an object to appear on the screen, we need to make a call to the GPU to draw out this object to the screen. This call to the GPU is what the Draw Call is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_v7xm8pQQ When optimizing for VR, the main focus should be to maintain a high and consistent frame per second. There are many different things to talk about when it comes to optimizing, so I’m just going to pick one at random…. Let’s talk about polycount and how it can effect our projects! What is Polycount?
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