10 Killer Tips and Tricks for Unity

Harness coroutines and yield in Unity to animate cubes over time, revealing them sequentially via a time interval and the start and end code routine.

Dynamically load external images from the hard drive at runtime to cycle textures in the game viewport, using a script attached to a game object and the Unity WWW class.

Export Maya assets with history cleared, transforms frozen, and low triangle counts; share textures via atlas with minimal UV seams to optimize Unity imports and batching.

Learn two ways to detect clicks in Unity: an on mouse down script with a collider, and camera-based raycasting to pick objects.

Learn how to import alpha textures into Unity by using pre-made Photoshop actions to create alpha channels, applying a nondestructive workflow, and using a transparent cutout material for pixel-perfect transparency.

Learn procedural geometry in Unity by building an editor plugin that generates a quad mesh from code and saves it as a mesh asset for a game object.

Explore how to use game objects as pivot points and dynamic parents to group, rotate, and broadcast actions to multiple children, including creating helpers and using broadcast messages.