Rider Tips and Tricks for Unity Development
summary
Adds double jump and three lives to a Unity sample, implements a shader that changes color by speed and alpha by health, and wires health to material properties so the avatar becomes transparent when hurt. Uses Rider to spot 300–400 B/frame allocations in Update, fixes string-to-property allocations with Shader.PropertyToID and eliminates per-frame GC by reusing MaterialPropertyBlock, converts costly Raycast calls to nonalloc versions, and uses an allocation viewer and Shader variant branch highlighting to find and fix hot-path issues.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and gameplay
- 1:33Player character improvements
- 3:33Shader visual feedback
- 6:52Code optimization in Rider
- 11:46Performance profiling
- 15:26Heap allocation debugging
- 20:18Resolving runtime errors
- 23:26Advanced Rider features
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