Quick Tips for Unity Chapter One

Discover how to save time and boost productivity in Unity with 100 plus tips across editor, artist, developer, and team workflows, using Unity 2020 LTS features.

Boost your workflow in Unity 2020 LTS with keyboard shortcuts and a streamlined editor interface that reduces repetitive tasks, speeds up debugging, and enables faster iterations and more efficient development.

Master the Unity package manager by inspecting installed and updatable packages, managing versions and dependencies, enabling preview packages, and installing from the Unity Registry, Asset Store, or tarball.

Learn to view, customize, and export editor shortcuts with the Unity Shortcuts Manager, using keys like F to focus and N to create a scene.

Utilize the Focus Inspector to view and edit properties of game objects, components, and assets in real time, with docked, locked windows for transforms, cameras, and lights.

Apply and save Unity presets to standardize transform, renderer, and collider, then export presets packages to share them and accelerate new projects.

Toggle scene visibility in Unity to temporarily hide or reveal objects in the scene view using the eye icon, without affecting the final build.

Modify the pick ability of scene objects to prevent accidental selection, using the toolbar icons to toggle pickable state for lines, lights, and walls, then deselect with the parent object.

Explore search in the Unity editor across hierarchy, scene, and project windows. Filter by name and type to find stairs, ball, floats, water assets, and shaders using type colon syntax.

Explore inspector debug mode to investigate game objects by toggling between normal and debug views, exposing private variables for quick value inspection during play mode, and save time by inspecting values instead of modifying scripts.

install quick search via package manager and use it to search across assets, scenes, objects, and settings, save queries, and focus results in the scene.

Learn 13 small Unity editor workflow tips that speed up your work, from paste as child and frame with F to inspector mesh viewing, layer management, and customizable layouts.

Learn how sprite atlases optimize 2D projects by packing multiple sprites into a single texture, reducing draw calls, and using Unity's pack preview, packing options, and runtime atlas APIs.

Explore Unity's 2D workflow with pixel perfect cameras, PSD importer, tile maps, 2D skeletons with IK, 2D lights, sprite shapes, sorting, and shaders, plus overdraw reduction and sprite editing.

Explore how prefabs enable reusable game objects, nested and variant hierarchies, and efficient team collaboration by editing base prefabs and overriding variants across scenes.

Text Mesh Pro replaces Unity UI text and legacy text mesh with advanced rendering for flexible styling and texturing, and covers installation, UI and 3D text creation.

Learn to use Unity snapping to align prefabs with a grid, surfaces, and vertices, adjust grid increments, and leverage Pro Grids for precise level design.

Master Unity's animation workflow by using the animation window to animate properties without code, connect clips with the animator controller as a state machine, and explore humanoid rigging.

Explore gizmos and icons to label and identify game objects in a scene, including orange diamonds, custom icons, name labels, and gizmos created by script.

Precalculate direct and indirect lighting and bake it into a light map texture to enable fast, high-quality global illumination in Unity, with a progressive light mapper that refines over time.

Explore light probes as a fast alternative to light maps for global illumination, enabling static scenes to receive direct and bounce lighting with no UVs.