README.md

3D-programming-utils

Repository of Multiple simple nifty algorithms that I wouldn't like to redo.

Unity

Learning Resources

• (CatlikeCoding)
• UI Maskable custom shaders
• Lightmapping in Unity Troubleshooting guide

Third Party Tools

• eztree

Other interesting assets

• Asset studio
• FaceMeshBarracuda - Media pipe but for face -> Includes Face Mesh
• MediaPipeUnityPlugin
• UnityVolumeRendering - Render Volumes DICOM, NRRD, MRI scans etc

2D

• 2D Lighting
• 2D VFX
• Choco Water
• Sprite Assist
• Sprite Outline

AI

• Nvidia DLSS or HDRP - Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is a performance-enhancing upscaling technique developed by NVIDIA.
• DotRecast - Navmesh generation
• LMNT - LMNT: Emotive AI speech for voiceover & characters
• Navmesh plus
• NPC AI
• Speech to Text for Android/iOS
• Unity MCP

Animations

• Animatable Volume Component
• Animation Repathing - update broken paths
• EasyIK
• Face Mesh Baracuda
• Holistic Motion Camera - an application that can capture the motion of a person with only a monocular color camera and move the VRM avatar's pose, face, and hands.
• Jiggle Physics
• Mixamo Animation fix Postprocessor
• Naughty Character - 3rd party character controller
• Open Kinematic Character Controller
• Open Fracture
• Polyhidra - procedural generation toolkit
• Record Physics as Animations
• Realistic Car Controller
• Skinned Mesh Transfer Tool
• Soft bones
• uLipSync - Lip Sync
• Render-Crowd-Animated-Characters - GPU-instanced animations for huge character crowds
• Rhubarb Lipsync
• Timeline Tool - Change clips realtime, get/set bindings, get clip duration
• Tween Playables
• VATBaker - Vertex Animation Baker
• WaitForAnim

AR

• 3D Reconstruction for ARCore - 3D Reconstruction using Chisel Library(Tango 3DR)
• AR Color Mapping
• Point Cloud Importer/Renderer
• Polyhive - texture 3D assets with AI)
• Replica Studios AI Voice Actors
• Unity MCP

Asset Bundles and Addressables

• AssetRipper - Extract assets from bundles and unity3D and others.
• AssetStudio - https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio/

Audio

• Audio FX Toolkit
• Audio Loader
• Audio Recorder
• Audio Scripts
• FMOD-Syntax
• ZzFX - Super small sound synth

Build

• Build Optimization Tool

Cameras

• Cinemachine RTS/City Builder Camera Controller

Debug

• Compilation Visualizer
• Debug Overlay - Fast and lightweight debug GUI overlay.
• Gizmos
• Jahro - Debug, Control and Fine-tune your game in the game view.

DOTS

• NativeTrees - Octree/Quadtree for ECS/DOTS

Editor Tools

• Animation Transition Copier
• ArtificeToolkit - Unity Editor toolkit
• Asset Usage Finder - Find which assets are actually used. Free alternative Asset Usage Detector
• Asset Management Tool
• Asset Tabs
• Bookmark4Unity - A simple unity editor tool to provide basic bookmarking for scene objects, scene view camera positions, and project assets.
• Build Tools
• DebugUtils
• Collider Editor
• Developer Console
• EditorJunkie - Buttons. Scene references. Searchable Enums
• Editor Icons
• Editor Toolbox
• Hierarchy Plus
• In Game Debug Console
• HTTP Debugger
• Material Shader Replacer - Batch replace shader of materials
• More Attributes
• Mx - command-based completion framework
• NSelection
• Package2Folder - Allows to import Unity packages into a specified folder to avoid your project's root bloating.
• Pivot Editor
• PlayerPrefsEditor
• Project Pin Board
• Proxima Inspector - live debugger
• RapidGUI - IMGUI extensions
• Readme Lite
• Runtime Monitoring
• Scene-View-Bookmarks - camera position bookmarking
• SerializeReferenceExtensions - serialize references to interfaces and abstract classes.
• Switch Attributes
• Toolbar extender
• UGizmo
• Unity Dependency Toolkit
• Unity Inspector Runtime
• Vertx Debugging Tools

File utils

• Excel to JSON

Geometry

• GPU Spline Deformation
• GrassBending
• Infinity Foliage - GPU-driven trees and grass
• Metaballs
• MeshLOD2FBX - export Unity 6.2 LODs to FBX
• SliceyMesh
• Spline Mesh
• Unity Grass Instancer

GPU

• GPUInstance

Lighting

• Dynamic Lighting
• Lightmap Switching Tool
• LTCGI - Realtime area lights
• Probe Grid and Cut

Mobile

• AutoScreen for Unity2021 - Safea area for Device Simulator
• Better Joystick
• Capture and Save Lite - Make a screenshot and save it to gallery.
• Cross-Platform-Native-Plugins
• EasyMic - New low-latency playback/mixing subsystem (AudioSystem/AudioMixer/PlaybackAudioSource), refactored non-blocking recording core
• Joystick Pack - Customizable joysticks to use especially on touch screens.
• Native Camera
• Native Dialog
• Native Sharing
• Permission's Kit
• Record and Repeat
• Smart Image
• Swipe detector
• Touch Controls
• UMI - Mobile native input fields
• UMP - Used it for receiving live-streaming YT videos
• UniMic - A wrapper for Unity's Microphone class
• UniVoice - UniVoice is a voice chat/VoIP solution for Unity.
• Unity.webp - Use WebP format for images

Multiplayer

• UniVoice - Chat/VoIP solution

Optimizations

• Amplify Impostors - 2D LOD for 3D objects
• Area Object Spawner
• Missing References Hunter
• Precomputed Culling
• Texture Hunter

Other Tools

• 3D Grid Layout
• Arc Raycast - Projectile formulas
• Bezier Solution or Unity Path Generator
• FBX Exporter
• Git Scene Merge
• GLTF Importer
• ICA Normal Tools - better recalculated normals
• IML - Interact Machine Learning - visual script Machine Learning
• vGLTF
• Noise Generator
• Quick Build
• StbImageSharpForUnity - byte/Stream to Texture2D
• Stereoscopic 3D
• WebGL Optimizer
• UnityCef - A web browser component for Unity

Physics

• Cable Physics
• Collider Optimizer
• FLIP - Fluid for Unity
• Soft2D - Soft bodies
• Soft Bodies
• StableFluids - fluids simulator
• Time rewinder
• UCloth VR Demo

Programming

• AsyncFileDownloader
• AsyncImageLoader
• BehaviourTreeEditor
• Geometric Tools
• MathFS
• Naughty Attributes
• OpenCV plus - Example
• Serializable Dictionary
• Serialize Reference Extensions

Projects

• Brush texture drawing component
• Open Chisel - implementation of a generic truncated signed distance field (TSDF) 3D mapping library
• TiltBrush

Rendering

• Atmospheric Scattering URP
• Baked Volumetrics - lightweight
• FernRender - all kinds of rendering utils
• Screen Space Reflection
• Screen Space URP Global Illumation
• Toon Render Pipeline
• URP Custom Lighting
• URP Volumetric Light

Repos

• HDRP Toon Shaders
• AudioVisual tons of good stuff

Scripts

• Archiver - Zip/Unzip
• Texture Rescale
• URP Mirror

Simulations

• BurstWig - Non-Realistic Hair effect
• InkPainter - This asset allows you to Texture-Paint on Unity
• L-Systems - plants and stuff

Shaders & VFX

• AI Shader
• AmplifyOcclusion URP
• Atmospheric Scattering
• Bake Shaders
• Capsule Ocllusion
• Cavifree - Blender-like cavity shader
• CustomPostprocessingStack
• Deferred Decals
• Dynamic Interactable Shader - Interactive Position subgraph component
• Effectcore's VFX packs (13$-26$)
• GPU occlusion culling
• Gradient Shader
• kDecals
• Layer-based Glow
• LTCGI - Realtime area lighting
• MagicaVoxel to VFXGraph
• Moxi Ink
• NoiseShader
• Nova Shader
• OldMovie FX
• Outlines
• PixelationFX
• Planar reflections URP
• Planter
• Polyhydra - a toolkit for the procedural generation of geometric forms in Unity.
• ProCamp - Adjust Videos
• Reaktion - Audio reactive animation toolkit for Unity
• Realtime Atmosphere - URP
• Rhea - Geometry Shader Grass
• Ripple Effect
• Simple Water Shaders
• SE Natural Bloom Dirty Lens
• StableFluids - This project is a straightforward GPU-based implementation of Jos Stam's Stable Fluids in Unity.
• Stylized water
• QFXToolKit - VFX Toolkit - not tested
• Toon water shader
• UnityFX Outline - Free Outline effect
• URP Antialising
• URP Fake Real Glass
• URP Fog Volume
• VFX Toolbox - Unity's toolbox with integration for Houdini and Blender
• VHS FX
• VolFX
• Volumetric Fake Lights
• Water buoyancy
• Watercolor Postprocessing
• Wave Simulator
• XSVolumetrics
• Zibra Effects - advanced vfx creation

Terrain

• Area Object Spawner

Text

• TMPro Effects
• TMPro Max

Third Party

• AdvancedSharpAdbClient
• RealWorldMapData - OpenStreetMap integration
• UnityImport3D
• Voice line cutter

Unity UI

• Adaptive Grid
• AnimationUI
• CompositeCanvasRender
• Graphify Everything
• Rounded Corners Shader
• Scene View Picker
• SDF UI Toolkit
• SVG importer
• Soft Masks
• Text Mesh Pro
• UI Blur
• UI Components - UIToolkit decoupling and DI
• UI Drawable - Draw/Brushes in UI
• UI Effects
• UI Table View
• UltraWide fixes

UIToolkit

• UIToolkit Safe Area
• Tailwind CSS for UIToolkit

VR

• Ultimate XR - a professional-grade, free, open-source framework and toolkit for Unity
• UXR-QuestCamera - A Unity package to use the new Meta Quest Passthrough Camera API.

Desktop

• UniFileOpenDialog

---

AFrame, Three.js, React-Three-Fiber

Learning Resources

• ThreeJS Journey
• http://stemkoski.github.io/
• Good Practices
• Lens Flares

Libraries

• drei - Extension for r3f
• enhance-shader-lighting
• gltfjsx - Tool to generate JSX from GLTF
• Networked AFrame
• React-Three-A11y - Accessibility tools for React Three Fiber
• THREEx
• Three-Landscape
• WebAR-rocks-faceDepth - import your face into ThreeJS

Tools & Open Source Projects

• Mozilla Hubs
• ThreeJS face filters
• Three Material Editor

Usecases

• AlteredQualia
• Example of Character Controller

---

Blender

Add-ons

• Blender-To-Unity
• BlenderGPT
• Dream Textures - texture creating Stable Diffusion
• Export Paper Model
• fSpy - Open Source Still camera matching
• IKurve - IK rig on curve
• Imagiscope - Google Earth inside Blender
• Lily's Surface Scraper
• Materials since 2007
• Material Slot Cleaner
• Meshroom2Blender
• Tracky - ARKit camera track to blendeVisionOS libraries

Materials

• Juilovii Materials Pack_