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Unity Manual

Language : English

Unity 6.1 User Manual (Alpha)
- Documentation versions
- Offline documentation
- Trademarks and terms of use
What's new in Unity
- New in Unity 6
- New in Unity 6 Preview
- New in Unity 2023.2
- New in Unity 2023.1
Install and upgrade
- Install Unity
- Deploy Unity across your enterprise
  - Enable Unity installation by standard users (Windows)
  - Use Unity through web proxies
- Licenses and activation
- Upgrade Unity
Packages and feature sets
- Unity's Package Manager
- Packages
- Creating custom packages
- Feature sets
Get started with Unity
- 2D or 3D projects
- Quickstart guides
  - 3D game development quickstart guide
    - Creating a 3D game
- Advanced best practice guides
The Unity Editor
- Unity's interface
- Save your work
- Editor Features
- Unity Search
Working in Unity
- Assets and media
- Working with GameObjects
- Working with scenes
- Cameras
- Input
- User interface (UI)
- 2D in Unity
- Troubleshooting
World building
- Sky
- Terrain
- Terrain Tools
Multiplayer
- Unity multiplayer overview
- Use the Multiplayer Center
Animation
- Mecanim Animation system
- Legacy Animation system
  - Legacy Animation component
Physics
- Built-in 3D Physics
Lighting
- Get started with lighting
  - Introduction to lighting
  - Choose a lighting setup
- Light sources
- Direct and indirect lighting
- Shadows
- Reflections
- Lighting in URP
- Lighting in the Built-In Render Pipeline
- Lighting reference
Materials and shaders
- Textures
- Shaders
- Materials
Visual effects
- Particle systems
- Decals and projectors
- Lens flares
- Light halos
  - Create and configure a halo light effect
  - Halo component reference
- Lines, trails, and billboards
  - Rendering lines
  - Rendering trails
- Visual Effect Graph
Rendering
- Render pipelines
- Post-processing and full-screen effects
- Color
  - Color spaces
  - High dynamic range (HDR)
- Graphics performance and profiling
Audio
- Audio overview
- Audio files
- Tracker Modules
- Audio Mixer
- Native audio plug-in SDK
- Audio playlist randomization
- Audio Profiler module
- Ambisonic Audio
  - Develop an ambisonic audio decoder
- Audio Reference
Video and cutscenes
- Video sources
- Video Player
- Video Profiler module
Scripting
- Get started with scripting
- Environment and tools
- Object-oriented development
- Compilation and code reload
- Code optimization
  - Asynchronous programming
  - Job system
- Debugging and diagnostics
Optimization
- Memory in Unity
  - Managed memory
    - Garbage collector overview
  - Native memory
- Unity Profiler
- Profiling tools
  - Analyzing profiler traces
- Understanding optimization in Unity
- Asset loading metrics
Platform development
- Cross-platform features and considerations
- Android
- Dedicated Server
- Embedded systems
  - Embedded Linux
  - QNX
- iOS
- Linux
- macOS
- tvOS
- Universal Windows Platform
- visionOS
- Web
- Windows
- XR
Unity Services
- Unity IAP
- Unity Distribution Portal
Glossary

Macro:	Target platform:
`SHADER_API_D3D11`	Direct3D 11
`SHADER_API_GLCORE`	Desktop OpenGL “core” (GL 3/4)
`SHADER_API_GLES3`	OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1
`SHADER_API_METAL`	iOS/Mac Metal
`SHADER_API_VULKAN`	Vulkan
`SHADER_API_D3D11_9X`	Direct3D 11 “feature level 9.x” target for Universal Windows Platform
`SHADER_API_DESKTOP`	Windows, Mac and Linux desktop platforms, Web
`SHADER_API_MOBILE`	iOS and Android mobile platforms, tvOS

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