DUUG

A huge thanks to Dominique Boutin @dom3d of @DIGITgamestudio, who are currently hiring. ;) If folks have questions on engine optimisations that would make for deep dives on @unity3d tweet us here @DublinUnityUG.

Wow, @StarTrekFleet is spectacularly complex under the hood

The long road to making @unity3d stable for @StarTrekFleet

Creating a culture of validation: The validation day.

Having automated checks for scene complexity reduced optimisation time and made it clear when they had extra processing time that was going to waste.

Mechanim in @unity3d, while very usefull, is not great for UI animations as its flag system keeps over complicating things.

An intresting dead end was an attempt to use vectors for the @StarTrekFleet interface, they found that it didnt create that much of an advantage and simple gradients would slow everything down. They went back to bitmaps.

The "overdraw budget score" is how @DIGITgamestudio made the limitations of the engine for those creating the UI of @StarTrekFleet