Unity 6.5 User Manual

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Highlights of Unity 6

Boost rendering performance

Elevate your scenes with scalable, captivating visuals using the latest advances in rendering, lighting, and visual effects.

Multiplayer game creation

Simplify multiplayer game creation with Unity's multiplayer packages and services.

Expand multiplatform reach

Build better experiences for mobile platforms, including a newly optimized runtime for mobile browsers, and get the latest multiplatform advances for all supported platforms.

Unlock possibilities with Unity AI

Accelerate creativity and development with AI tools for code generation, asset creation, and runtime inference, all integrated into the Unity Editor and Dashboard.

Achieve more engaging visuals

Create more engaging visuals with the latest updates to Lighting, Graphics performance and profiling, Shader Graph, and Visual Effect Graph.

Enhance productivity and functionality

Improve productivity and functionality across your entire Unity development environment with better profiling options, ProBuilder, Cinemachine, and UI Toolkit.

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Unity AI

Create with AI-powered tools in the Unity Editor and Dashboard. Use Assistant for contextual help, Generators for asset creation, and Sentis to run models at runtime.

Animation

Animation in the Unity Editor, including the avatar system, animation clips, and state machines.

Audio

Audio in the Unity Editor, including clips, sources, listeners, importing and sound settings.

Unity Building Blocks

Add functional gameplay features that demonstrate Unity's best practices.

2D game development

Unity Editor's 2D-specific features including gameplay, sprites, and physics.

Lighting

Set up realistic or stylized lighting to apply for a range of art styles.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer game development with Unity's multiplayer packages and services.

Package management

Explore, install, update, and manage packages for your projects. You can use packages to add assets and extend the Unity Editor.

Physics

Simulation of 3D motion, mass, gravity and collisions.

Platform development

Information about the platforms that you can build your application for.

Rendering

Choose a render pipeline and add your own rendering and post-processing.

Scripting

Program your games by using scripting in the Unity Editor.

UI

User interface toolkits available in the Unity Editor.

Unity services

Unity services such as Monetization and Cloud Services, Ads, Cloud Build, and Multiplayer.

Visual effects

Add and customize particle, lens flare, and full-screen effects.

XR

Develop augmented, mixed, and virtual reality experiences with the Unity Editor.

Additional resources

• 📖 E-Book:
  Advanced best practice guides - Best practice guides created by Unity experts.
• 👥 Community:
  Unity Discussions - A community-driven forum where you can find answers, announcements, and discussion topics.
• 💡 Resources:
  Unity Learn Tutorials - Free step-by-step tutorials and courses on using Unity, written by Unity staff.
• 💡 Resources:
  Unity Support Help Center - A collection of answers to frequently asked questions posed to Unity's Support teams.
• 💡 Resources:
  Asset Store help - Answers to frequently asked questions on Asset Store content sharing.