Become a Speed Demon: Being faster at everything you do in Unity

Presented at Unite Berlin (2018)

YouTube video

The presentation slides can be viewed in the Unity project in this repository.

• Open the Main.unity scene.
• Enter Play mode.
• Use arrow keys to navigate.

Shortcuts

• Overview of common Unity shortcuts (video)
• Unity shortcuts Cheat Sheet
• MenuItem tutorial covering advanced functionality

Tools

From Unity

• Package Manager
• Unity GitHub Profile

Noteworthy 3rd party tools (no affiliation)

• SRDebugger
• MonKey Commander
• Unity Shell
• REX Diagnostics

Automation

• Asset Pre/Post Processors
• Serialization callbacks
• EditorApplication callbacks (see Events section)
• OnValidate()
• PostProcessBuildAttribute

Avoid asset import times

• Cache Server v6.0

Speed up compilation times

• Incremental Compiler
• Compile Time Tracker

Different approach to scripting

• Unity Native Scripting

Time to find information

• How to be a Resourceful Developer

My previous Unite talks

• UNITE Europe’17 - How to be a Resourceful Unity Developer
• UNITE’15 - Writing Shaders: YOU Can Do It!
• UNITE’13 - Advanced Editor Scripting
• UNITE’13 - Unity in the Wild
• UNITE’12 - Advanced Editor Scripting
• UNITE’11 - Smuggle Truck Postmortem