Mai Hou houkanshan

This short post by Defold people about "empty project build size" comparison between Defold, Unity and Godot (twitter, mastodon) sparked my interest.

It is curious that Godot builds seem to be larger than Unity? Would not have expected that! Anyway.

A way more extensive Unity "web" build comparison and analysics is over at https://github.com/JohannesDeml/UnityWebGL-LoadingTest but here are just my short notes in trying out Unity 6 (6.0.23 - Oct 2024).

Default (3D, URP) template

This gist lists challenges you run into when building offline-first applications based on IndexedDB, including open-source libraries like Firebase, pouchdb and AWS amplify (more).

Note that some of the following issues affect only Safari. Out of the major browsers, Chrome's IndexedDB implementation is the best.

Backing file on disk (WAL file) keeps growing (Safari)

When this bug occurs, every time you use the indexeddb, the WAL file grows. Garbage collection doesn't seem to be working, so after a while, you end up with gigabytes of data.

Random exceptions when working with a large number of indexeddb databases (Safari)

How to notarize a Unity build for macOs 10.15 Catalina

As of January 2020, all apps running on macOs 10.15 Catalina are required to be notarized. For Unity games distributed outside the Mac App Store, such as with Steam, the notarization process is done post build using a series of Xcode command line tools.

Prerequisites

a Mac that is compatible with macOs 10.15 Catalina :
- MacBook (2015 or newer)
- MacBook Air (2012 or newer)
MacBook Pro (2012 or newer)

Fixing macOS 10.14, 10.15, 12

Dark main menu without the rest of dark mode

Set Light mode
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes
Log out and log back in
Set Dark mode

Shader "MaterialPropertyDrawer"
{
Properties
{
_MainTex("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
 
[HideInInspector] _MainTex2("Hide Texture", 2D) = "white" {}

	// mostly from https://github.com/dsoft20/psx_retroshader
	// mixed with parts of https://github.com/keijiro/Retro3D
	// under MIT license by Robert Yang (https://debacle.us)

	Shader "Custom/VertexLit-Retro3D" {
	Properties{
	_MainTex("Base (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
	_Color("Color", Color) = (0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1)
	_GeoRes("Geometric Resolution", Float) = 40
	}

	Shader "Name" {

	Properties {

	_Name ("display name", Range (min, max)) = number
	_Name ("display name", Float) = number
	_Name ("display name", Int) = number
	_Name ("display name", Color) = (number,number,number,number)
	_Name ("display name", Vector) = (number,number,number,number)


	YOUR METHOD HERE - BEGIN

	if (SOME_CONTROL_OF_YOURS && Application.isEditor)
	{
	Action<string> commCallback = (csv) =>
	{
	LoadCSVText(csv);
	};
	StartCoroutine(DownloadCSVCoroutine(spreadSheetId, commCallback, true, "YOUR_ASSET_NAME_NO_EXT", tabId));

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import os
	import sys
	import time
	import zipfile

	startingdir = os.getcwd()

	if (len(sys.argv) == 1):
	print("Usage: " + os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) + " path/to/application.app [path/to/output.zip]")