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Shaders, graphics and AI pathfinding, plus a lot more. Enjoy!

When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster - In the realm of computer science, we're always told to pursue what is the most efficient solution. This can be either what is the fastest way to solve a problem; or what may be the cheapest. What is the easiest, but not always the best, is typically a "greedy algorithm"
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Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step() - In this article I want to correct a popular misconception that's been making the rounds in computer graphics aficionado circles for a long time now. It has to do with conditionals when selecting between two results in the GPUs.
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Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium - Spending the better part of 2024 learning new shader techniques and concepts through the lens of post-processing has been the spark I needed to come up with ever more intricate, detailed, and ambitious creative work.
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AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing - Today’s journey is Anti-Aliasing and the destination is Analytical Anti-Aliasing. Getting rid of rasterization jaggies is an art-form with decades upon decades of maths, creative techniques and non-stop innovation. With so many years of research and development, there are many flavors.
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Learn Shader Programming with Rick and Morty - This animation of Rick was made with 240 lines of code. No libraries, no images. I’m going to show you how to use GPU shaders and signed distance fields to make animations like it for videos, video games, or just for fun! I even built a live coding editor into the page so you can see the examples running and tinker with them.
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Stylization In Video Games: A Deep Dive Analysis - Senior 3D Artist Alexey Shiyan shared with us an in-depth article on stylization in video games, exploring its transformations over the years and the various directions it has taken to shape the modern game design landscape.
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How To Set Up Voronoi-Based Water Shader In Unity - Tanat Boozayaangool demonstrated the process of creating stylized water for his game about a house on a date.
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Videos

Tactical Pathfinding: Beyond A* for Smarter AI Movement - Pathfinding is about getting from point A to point B as efficiently as possible, which a standard A algorithm can handle. However, in more complex scenarios, AI must also avoid detection or enemy fire, a challenge known as tactical pathfinding, where the AI balances short travel times with stealth and safety.
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Creating Enemies Part I: Environmental assets | Unity Demo team - Discover how the Unity Demo team crafted the environment for Enemies in the first installment of this three-part series. Explore the intricate balance between quality and flexibility, the striking contrast between classical and mechanical elements, and the technical decisions involved in choosing between premade assets and scan data. [Part 2, Part 3]
Unity

I Implemented Gaussian Splatting in Unity - Let's Implement gaussian splatting in Unity [code on github]
IndividualKex

Pathfinding Hordes of Enemies with Flow Fields - We can We can actually take advantage of the fact that all the enemies are travelling to the same place to optimize their path finding with a pretty neat little data structure called a flow field
Deep Dive Dev

Status Effect Implementation - I talk about how to implement status effects in your games.
Timothy Cain

How To Access Unity's Hidden API's - In this video, I’ll show you how to use a trick with assembly definitions to access a hidden API (InternalAPIEngineBridge) that unlocks internal Unity modules—demonstrating it with a real example by extending the UI Builder to edit custom style properties.
Game Dev Guide

How to make 3D Games in Godot - Learn how to make a 3D game in this Godot tutorial. From simple prototype to beautiful 3D levels, let's get started!
Brackeys

How to setup your UI for navigation with keyboard and gamepad in Unity - In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up a UI Navigation by keyboard and gamepad in Unity. You'll see how to configure the Event System, adjust automatic versus explicit navigation and add simple code in case you want to constrain the user to certain menu parts or pick the next element to select when the player presses a button.
Christina Creates Games

Can I fix Zelda's UI using Unity? - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has some baffling user interface design. So I decided to make some alternative versions in Unity to see if we could improve things.
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Assets

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com.lurking-ninja.dependency - Simplified dependency Injection for Unity utilizing SourceGeneration making it as performant as possible.
LurkingNinja Open Source

barelymusician - a real-time music engine. It provides a modern C/C++ API to generate and perform musical sounds from scratch in a sample accurate way. This repository includes the build targets for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and Daisy platforms, in addition to a native Unity game engine plugin.
anokta Open Source

VisualStateMachine - State Machine Tool using UI Toolkit & GraphView / Unity Editor Scripting
darkrainbowsprinkles Open Source

KinoFeedback2 - Old-school frame feedback effect for Unity HDRP
keijiro Open Source

com.bananaparty.behaviortree - Unity package. Fully cross-platform Behavior Tree.
forcepusher Open Source

test-helper.monkey - Reference implementation that performs object-based Unity UI (uGUI) monkey tests and API for custom implementation
nowsprinting Open Source

UnityHistoryPanel - Photoshop Like History panel with shortcut navigation
brunomikoski Open Source

BicycleSystem - A verstaile and easy to use open bicycle system made for Unity. [You might also enjoy this article]
RayznGames Open Source

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Spotlight

Lost in Random: The Eternal Die Demo - Take on an ancient evil in Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, a fast-paced action roguelite set in the whimsical world of Random. Play as Queen Aleksandra and her die-companion Fortune as you battle twisted foes, wield powerful relics and abilities, and roll the dice to escape this nightmarish realm.

[You can get the demo on Steam]
Stormteller Games

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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