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Lightweight Render Pipeline

The Lightweight Render Pipeline (LWRP) delivers high performance for lower-end hardware, resource-hungry applications like XR, and platforms such as mobile.

LWRP improves performance by reducing the amount of drawcalls, overdraw, and bandwidth of your game. Lights are shaded in batches. In some cases, the pipeline can avoid a depth pre-pass. Rendering is done in a way to minimize the cost of reading and writing to the main device memory.

LWRP is currently supported on all VR platforms.

2D world-building tools (Sprite Shape/Tilemap)

Sprite Shape gives you the freedom to create rich freeform 2D environments directly within Unity and decorate them as you see fit, with a visual and intuitive workflow. The tool dynamically tiles Sprites along spline paths based on a given set of angle ranges.

Using Tilemaps, you can quickly lay out and create 2D levels using a combination of Sprites and have control over properties such as layer ordering, tilemap colliders, animated tiles and more. Whether you’re making a square-tiled, hex or isometric-tiled game, tilemap is ready for you.

2D Graphics

Pixel Perfect makes it easy for you to achieve a perfect retro look across different resolutions on a wide range of devices, and 2D animation provides Sprite rigging and skeletal animation workflows. Some recently added 2D animation tools include:

• Pixel Perfect Camera
• 2D Animation (with 2D PSD importer)
• 2D IK (inverse kinematics)

Vector graphics

The Vector Graphics importer allows you to use SVG files for your Sprites, providing many advantages for your mobile games such as lighter Sprites, sharp images regardless of the device resolution, and easier production because you don’t have to worry about the output resolution of your Sprites.

ARM64, Metal 2, Vulkan and more

Support for the latest graphics APIs and mobile optimization:

• Vulkan is a next-generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.
• ARM64-bit provides you with performance benefits because 64-bit Android apps and your games will be able to address more than 4GB of memory space.
• Metal 2 now works with the High-Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) and LWRP.
• Memory Profiler is a unified solution to profile any project size and provides actionable information to optimize performance.
• The Addressable Asset System makes a much smaller app download by requesting assets at runtime as they are needed.

Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS)

DOTS delivers “Performance by default,” which makes it possible for your game to fully utilize the latest multicore processors without the heavy programming headache. Your games will run faster, there’ll be fewer bugs to fix, and your mobile players and their devices will benefit too. DOTS includes the following features:

• The C# Job System for running multithreaded code efficiently.
• The Entity Component System (ECS) for writing high-performance code by default.
• The Burst Compiler for producing highly optimized native code.

Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP)

SRP enables you to tailor the rendering process to your target platforms in order to optimize game performance for specific hardware.

It also allows you to take full advantage of the power of modern hardware and GPUs without having to digest millions of lines of code.

DCC integration

Unity offers several features for seamless DCC integration:

• The Model Importer preserves the properties of Physical Cameras exported from Autodesk® Maya® and other compatible DCCs.
• Cameras in Unity perfectly match cameras in other DCCs without the need for additional components or manual FOV calculation.
• Our Recorder feature allows you to record and export animation clips (via FBX) to your favorite DCC applications.
• Seamless asset import between products like 3ds Max and Maya and Unity. You can safely merge your project changes between platforms due to better-connected workflows.

Cinematics (Timeline/Cinemachine)

With Cinemachine’s suite of smart cameras, you’ll never need to animate cameras again. Instead, you can focus all your creative energies on framing the action beautifully.

Cinemachine automates camera behaviors and dynamically triggers the best shots based on scene composition and interaction. The result is the best shot at the best time, without painful tweaks and reworking.

Timeline gives you the power to create gorgeous cinematic content, cutscenes, and gameplay sequences.

Shader Graph

Shader Graph enables you to build shaders visually. Instead of writing code, you can create and connect nodes in a graph network. Each node in the graph gives instant feedback on the changes, and its ease of use means that even new users can be involved in shader creation.