Yesterday's example should show why it’s important to cache your coroutines, but it’s important to cache variables as well. The importance of caching GetComponent: GetComponent does exactly what it says, it commits Unity to perform an action requiring searching and allocating memory. If this is being done in Update, that search and allocation are being…

Day 1 of optimization class and we’re going to learn about the profiler! To open it, just go to window/analysis/profiler. It was recommended to dock it below. I’ll use my first 2D shooter game as the subject to be optimized! Running the game, we’ll see a realtime chart of how…

We’re ready for our app to download our horse file! Let’s get into the AWSManager and prepare a method: We’ll actually take an alternative route to download the object using the URL of our object. We can find that in amazons file info.

Now that we have an asset bundle uploaded to S3, we’ll want to download it from within Unity. To do that, we’ll need to go to this page and download the SDK. After downloading, unzip and look for the S3 package. We can ignore everything else. …

The process to uploading an asset to Amazons S3 is pretty simple (in comparison to other actions). Let’s log in to our account: Go to S3 and create a new bucket. I’ll call mine sdaranatomy

Asset Bundles are a great way to get more content into your app, maybe you want to create DLC, or if your app is too big, you can create a smaller base app, and then download bundles for playing content as you go. To build an asset bundle, we can…