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Debugging Multiplayer MR Games with Unity Cloud
November 26, 2025 November 19, 2025
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Unite 2025 | Debugging Multiplayer

Watch the Unite 2025 presentation: Debugging Multiplayer Mixed Reality with Unity Cloud

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October 3, 2020 February 10, 2016
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Unity | Animation Controller Best Practices

I put this short tutorial together for some of my colleagues at work, but then […]

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February 18, 2021 July 21, 2015
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Tools | Lightning Effect (GFX)

About This Tool Another tool I developed for the artists of Wayward allowed them to […]

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October 3, 2020 July 21, 2015
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Tools | Parallax Preview

Summary I built this tool for our game Wayward. It provides a live preview of […]

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October 3, 2020 July 10, 2015
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Tools | Clone Mechanim Controller Tool for Unity3D

Need for the Tool One of the challenges when building Wayward was that we needed […]

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October 3, 2020 April 7, 2015
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Unity | Error – Prefab has multiple Transform components!

We were getting the following error message that was causing a hard crash in Unity3D. […]

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October 3, 2020 April 7, 2015
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Unity | Save Your In-Play Transform Modifications (2 of 2)

Don’t you hate it when you’ve made a few changes to your game objects but […]

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October 3, 2020 April 6, 2015
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Unity | Save Your In-Play Transform Modifications (1 of 2)

Don’t you hate it when you’ve made a few changes to your game objects but […]

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October 3, 2020 February 3, 2015
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Unity | Using the Motion Curve

Unity’s motion curve editor is an easily overlooked feature, but it’s a powerful tool for […]

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October 3, 2020 January 12, 2015
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Unity | P4 Remote Checkout in Inspector

I’m a big fan of Perforce as a version control solution for game development, however […]

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May 28, 2021 December 15, 2014
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Tools | Developing Tools for Artist

This post is duplicated on AtomJack’s official website. As a game dev topic, tools development […]

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January 25, 2021 December 9, 2014
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Tools | Realtime Megatexture Parallax Editor

This is a quick demonstration of a prototype for a megatexture editor I made for […]

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January 25, 2021 July 27, 2014
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Unity | Generate a Prefab with Code

I recently had the need to create a prefab at runtime. This is really useful […]

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February 16, 2021 July 20, 2014
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Unity | Message Queue

Message queues are especially useful for debugging networking events and other function calls that may […]

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February 16, 2021 July 20, 2014
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Unity | Access Any Prefab By Name

Note: This is an advanced tutorial, recommended for those already familiar with the Unity3D game […]

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