In a nutshell, Unity recommends you separate your canvases based on whether you will update them or not. The canvas that you don’t update will have purely static elements and be called the static canvas. The canvas you do update will be the active one. The reason it’s done this way is when you modify an element inside a canvas, it’s considered ‘dirtying up the canvas’ and so every element inside of the canvas must be redrawn.

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…

Coroutines are extremely useful for any time specific function, however when one uses the yield return new function, that uses a lot of garbage allocation resources as every time the new keyword is used, Unity has to build that new thing on the spot.

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…

Wow! What a journey it’s been! I’ve now programmed my first space shooter game, learned game programming in various styles from 2d, 2.5d, and a simple zombie fps to learning about more serious applications that take advantage of Augmented Reality and Amazon services! While I’m learning about optimization, I’ll also be attempting to create some games so stay tuned!

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…