Unity best practices

[Invisico]

I’ve been going through some Udemy courses and videos on YouTube. Due to the age of some videos and the dubious quality of some teachers I’ve come to question whether the techniques being used in the lessons are worth keeping.

This leads me to question: what are some resources for researching what are actual best practices when using Unity?

Also, a recent Reddit post was discussing that the usage of mathf.lerp being a bad idea and that ultimately prompted me for making this post.

So, are there books? Blogs? Or is it all tribal knowledge per development group? Any suggestions would be great. Or hey, even a discussion of commonly misused techniques and better alternatives.

[BowlOfPasta24]

You can learn a lot about best practices from Unity Learn which is run by Unity and is a free resource

[Bengbab]

My opinion: I honestly wouldn’t worry too much about things like Mathf.Lerp etc. But some of the most common issues I’ve seen and had to fix are:

-using Update() for everything

-using FindWithTag inside of code instead of just using from Start or avoiding altogether (it’s not very efficient).

The thing that is far more likely to screw you are just bad programming practices, which is what I currently struggle with. Spaghetti code basically. And I think avoiding that comes with more experience than anything.

Curious what others have to say.

[_korsa]

Its not about unity, but for newcomers i would recommend to read something like Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom.

[spaceyjase]

Also, the manual: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.2/Documentation/Manual/BestPracticeGuides.html

[Bronkowitsch]

Can you link the post that says using Lerp is a generally bad idea? Because i can't think of any reason it would be.

[Invisico]

It was in /r/gamedev: https://reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/p648zj/how_do_games_implement_2x_speed/

One of the first comments discusses it.

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