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In Unity you can use scripts to develop pretty much every part of a game or other real-time interactive content. Unity supports scripting in C# and there are two main ways to architect your C# scripts in Unity: object-oriented design, which is the traditional and most widely used approach, ands modern hardware.

Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Odsoft driver download. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.

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DOTS’ multithreaded systems enable you to create games that run on a variety of hardware and build richer game worlds with more elements and more complex simulations. Performant code in turn contributes to optimal thermal control and battery lifetime on players’ mobile devices. By moving from object-oriented to data-oriented design, it can be easier for you to reuse your code and for others to understand and work on it.

  • Starting debugging and playing the Unity editor can be completed in a single step directly from Visual Studio for Mac by choosing the Attach to Unity and Play configuration. If you started debugging using the Attach to Unity and Play configuration, the Stop button will also stop the Unity Editor.
  • Note that while everyone mentions Mono and Xamarin, which you should absolutely look into for C# development, Unity works on Mac directly, specifically Mac OSX 10.6+ while both use the C# language, some of the paradigms espoused by Unity are a little different from standard C# development. I personally recommend learning both.
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As some of the technology of DOTS is in Preview, it is advised that developers use it to solve a specific performance challenge in their projects, as opposed to building entire projects on it. Check out the “More Resources” section at the bottom of this page for links to key DOTS resources.

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Debugging in Unity

Tweaking and debugging is efficient in Unity because all the gameplay variables are shown right as developers play, so things can be altered on the fly, without writing a single line of code. The game can be paused at anytime or you can step-through code one statement at a time.

Here are some great resources to learn more about optimizing in Unity:

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General best practices (including extensive tips on optimizing Unity’s UI system)

.NET: Unity has used an implementation of the standard Mono runtime for scripting that natively supports C#. Unity currently ships with Visual Studio for Mac instead of MonoDevelop-Unity on macOS. On Windows, Unity ships with Visual Studio.

The .NET 4.6 scripting runtime in Unity supports many of the new exciting C# features and debugging available in C# 6.0 and beyond. This also provides a great C# IDE experience to accompany the new C# features.

IL2CPP: This is a Unity-developed scripting backend which you can use as an alternative to Mono when building projects for some platforms. When you choose to build a project using IL2CPP, Unity converts IL code from scripts and assemblies into C++ code, before creating a native binary file (.exe, apk, .xap, for example) for your chosen platform.

Note that IL2CPP is the only scripting backend available when building for iOS and WebGL.

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As a programmer you have a great deal of flexibility in Unity because you can extend the editor with your own custom windows that behave just like the Inspector, Scene or any other built-in windows in the standard editor. Adding your own tools to Unity supports you and your team’s unique workflows and needs, ultimately boosting efficiency.

Converting your game to DOTS
DOTS documentation
Overview of Unity real-time 3D platform

I wanted to make a simple VR app for my Oculus Go and had to setup my environment beforehand. This tutorial tries to translate reference tutorial to Mac.

Prerequisites

  1. You own an Oculus Go
  2. You own a Mac
  3. Unity installed (In this case: 2019.3.3f1)
  4. Homebrew installed

Installations

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Homebrew installations

  1. brew cask install android-platform-tools

Plug in your Oculus Go

Sfere port devices driver download for windows 10. Since the 'allow file access' dialog did not appear once the developer account was enabled, I left it disabled until later.

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  1. Plug in your Oculus Go
  2. Allow file access on the Oculus Go
  3. Enable developer mode via the Oculus app
  4. Run add devices on the Mac
  5. Allow access on the Oculus Go

Setting up Unity

When installing Unity via the Hub, make sure to also install the Android tools and Open JDK. Pro-data driver download for windows.

  1. Create a new 3D Project
  2. In Edit > Preferences > External Tools make sure to use the built-in SDK and JDK.
  3. Go To File > Build Settings
  4. Click on Android and 'Switch Platform' if necessary
  5. Go To Edit > Project Settings > Player
  6. Enter your Company, scroll to XR Settings and activate 'Virtual Reality Support'
  7. Add Oculus via the plus symbol to the right under 'Virtual Reality Support'
  8. Still in Edit > Project Settings > Player go to Other Settings and find Graphic APIs.
  9. Remove Vulkan

Building

  1. Go to File > Build Settings
  2. Click Build and Run
  3. Enjoy the VR app

And now?

  1. Use the Oculus Utilities from the asset store
  2. Make a 360 degree image the skybox like here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXUoQ7VnLDc]
  3. Make a Raycast like here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yf5vzZ2sYE]

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