This Friday we published the Unity engine and editor C# source code on GitHub, under a reference-only license. Wait... what? It's always b... Read more
Posts by Aras Pranckevičius
This is a heads-up of graphics related things we plan to “drop” from future versions of Unity, a.k.a. Dropping of Things for Make Benefit Gl... Read more
In Unity 5 we've been adding many user-visible graphics features (new Standard shader, realtime global illumination, reflection probes, new ... Read more
A story about a million shader variants, optimizing using Instruments and looking at the data to optimize some more. The Bug Report The bu... Read more
I was looking at a curious bug report: “Texture importing got much slower in current beta”. At first look, I dismissed it under “eh, someone... Read more
Have you ever looked at some graphics issue in Unity, and thought “if only I could see how the final frame is rendered, step-by-step?”. I kn... Read more
Exciting times for graphics on iOS 8! At its recent World Wide Developers Conference, Apple introduced Metal, a new graphics API that’s l... Read more
A story in several parts. 1) how shader compilation is done in upcoming Unity 4.5; and 2) how it was developed. First one is probably intere... Read more
Short summary: Unity’s hardware stats page now has a “mobile” section. Which is exactly what it says, hardware statistics of people playing ... Read more
Helloes! We are in the finishing stages of Unity 4.0 release. So here's the third beta build: unity3d.com/unity/beta/download. A chang... Read more
Unity 4 was just announced, and many of you are probably thinking about if you should upgrade to Unity 4.0 now or later. Whither Unity 4.... Read more
Yes! I did a talk at SIGGRAPH! Ahem. So yeah, a bunch of us were at SIGGRAPH 2011 in lovely Vancouver, doing talks, meeting people and... Read more
Google's Native Client (NaCl) is a brilliant idea. TL;DR: it allows native code to be run securely in the browser. Here's a collection of de... Read more