Imp Plugins

Important unity3d plugins, that might boost your development,

1. NGUI

 

           Description: This is the amazing plugin made by Tasharen Entertainment, hats of the developer of NGUI. My personal experience with this plugin is incredible and it has saved lots of my time for GUI development in Unity3d especially developing for multiple platforms. Nice community support, easy to learn, flexible and covers almost all needs of UI development for your game. If you are unity3d developer and don't using NGUI then you must try this once, you would be fan for NGUI and your game with UI developed with this NGUI will have far better user experience rather then traditional unity GUI. 

           The main feature of NGUI is atlas generation using which one can easily make game GUI with only single Draw Call which will greatly boost your game performance and makes optimized game. Atlas creator tool support atlas generation for Texture as well as Font also, so that text rendering will not make any performance hikes.

You can find NGUI HERE,

NGUI Features:

1. Localization support
2. Multi platform and Multi resolutions support
3. Event and UI Animation system
4. UI with one draw call
5. Texture and Font atlas creation

Pros: Single draw call, easy to learn, easy to use, multi platform support with minimal effort.
Cons: None.

Games made with NGUI:

1. Subway Surfers
2. Frisbee Forever
3. Temple Run 2
4. Atari Outlaw
5. Doc & Dog

NGUI Tutorials,

2. Fast GUI

           Description : This is very important plugin i have seen on unity3d asset store, using this you can easily export your Photoshop psd files to unity3d GUI. Yes it is! It might wonder you but it is doing. This will save lots of time on making GUI for your game. Especially if you are working on large game which is having inventory system in it.

You can find Fast GUI HERE,

Pros: NGUI support.
Cons: Only support for NGUI, not support for unity GUI and other GUI plugins.
Use: To develop GUI directly from Photoshop PSD file.

3. Dynamic Text

           Description: Are you worrying about your font quality ? Then this plugin suits you exactly, dynamic text is very simple but important plugin that makes your font pixel perfect regardless of your font size.

You can Dynamic Text HERE,

Pros: Easy to use.
Cons: Very limited support, No support for shadow and outline.
Use: To render font with pixel perfection.