Unity Meetup: Was the Pizza Worth it?
No GDC, no Unity, but a 20-minute walk I can do
Unity Performance Blog
Practical articles on CPU, GPU, memory and engineering process optimization.
2023.03 - Run-time Material Fusing
Runtime material fusing is what you do when batching dies because of material variants. Learn the vertex-attribute trick for colors/properties, the texture-atlas path for multiple textures, and the checks that prove you really recovered the batch win.
Ruben vs. Furious Barista @Starbucks
Well, that did not go quite as planned...
2023.02 - Run-time Static Batching - How?!
Runtime static batching is what you reach for when design adds procedural rooms, spawned props, or runtime layouts and your old fix stops applying. Learn when to use StaticBatchingUtility.Combine vs Mesh.CombineMeshes, and how to prove the draw-call win before you commit.
How I Get to Work in AAA Games
Curious how I get access to help out in AAA games?
Static Batching in Unity Like You Never Saw
Why devs don't know how static batching truly works in Unity
2023.01 - Static Batching Like You Never Saw
Static batching looks easy until it blows up your memory budget or silently fails. Learn when it helps, what Unity really builds under the hood, how Awake/Start can break it, and how to verify the result with Stats, Frame Debugger, and RenderDoc.
Early vs. Late Z-Kill (+ Hiring AI Dev)
Let us see why late Z-Kills are so bad for your GPU
2022.12 - Exploring Low-Level GPU Metrics With SMM
Exploring Low-Level GPU Metrics With SMM: When GPU performance collapses, generic profiling views are often too high-level to explain why. You need low-level counters, or you stay stuck in expensive guess-and-check loops.
2022.11 - IL2CPP's Most Intimate Performance Secrets
IL2CPP's Most Intimate Performance Secrets: If your hot C# path runs thousands of times per frame, tiny IL2CPP details become real frame time.
Are You Stuck Somewhere?
Talking about the games industry...
2022.10 - Butchering Shaders for Performance
Butchering Shaders for Performance: Most shader slowdowns are not magic, they are expensive instructions repeated millions of times.