unity3d tips and tricks or "you are doing it wrong!"

Unity3D Tips and Tricks or

“You are doing it wrong!”

Taras Leskiv

Unity3D Developer

My experience

￭ Plumber Bob

1. You don’t configure your

Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop

￭ In the perfect world (we all like to dream):

+ +

1. You don’t configure your

Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop

￭ Problem – no iOS deployment.

￭ You probably do 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?

or more likely this

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.

1. You don’t configure your

Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop

￭ Do your homework – it is not that bad.

2. You drag windows all over the

screen!

￭ Use layouts!

2. You drag windows all over the

screen!

￭ Rearrange items wisely

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

4. You copy and paste component

values manually!

5. You don’t use attributes!

￭ [Range(-1, 1)] – int, float

￭ [RequireComponent(typof(SomeType))]

￭ [ExecuteInEditMode]

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.

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)

8. You do not take advantage of

icons!

￭ Distinguish scripts – color libs.

￭ Mark scripts – Interfaces, abstract and static classes

8. You do not take advantage of

icons!

￭ Make custom icons for objects in scene you have to find frequently.

9. You don’t use .asset files to

store data!

Questions

Taras Leskiv

Unity3D Developer

developers.nravo.com

leskiv.taras@gmail.com

@tarasleskiv