UNITY SHADER VARIANTS BUILD TIME OPTIMIZATION - Speed up slow Unity builds - Hardware + Unity Tips

In this video I show you how I reduced my Unity build times from 11 minutes to 20 seconds with hard drive choices and Graphics API settings. The following topics are covered:
-Shader Cache
-Spinning vs Solid State Hard Drives
-Auto Graphics API vs Manual
-Building for Android
Extra reading:
In-Depth Unity Shader Variants Blog Post: blogs.unity3d.com/2018/05/14/...
Unity Docs: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Optim...
Shader keywords: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-Mu...
Asset Store Shader Helper: assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Why Vulkan Grahics API? blogs.unity3d.com/2016/09/29/...
Credits:
Music: www.bensound.com/
My Game Studio: www.koloza.com
-TheUnityGameDev
www.theunitygamedev.com

[@ELEC7RO]

38 minutes was good mine took over 10 hours before I cancelled it, thanks for the tutorial!

[@nati7728]

Fantastic video, wish I was aware of this years ago.

[@DevTotal]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Animation_Shorts010]

thank you keep going

[@DevTotal]

You are welcome. I like your channel name

[@2.5dboy20]

Epic!

[@DevTotal]

Thanks. I was surprised I could get the build down to 20 seconds.

[@2.5dboy20]

@@DevTotal hehe that was cool (◠‿・)-☆ ...and by the i have sent a message on your Instagram... please do check that out please (^^)!

[@LoneDev]

Thanks a lot!

[@DevTotal]

No worries!

[@l201012]

Is this means if you bild with more than 1 api, than you can SELECT the api in the build somehow? (select the graph api to use)

[@parthacodes5893]

Need to do this before launching or switching play today i was doing i took long time then i had to make my terrain again but because i had backup it was fst thank god tnak u it will be helpful when i will launch my game

[@AlexRak2]

yay!!!!

[@phil1354]

i have the same thing but its with a modulecompilationtrigger when im opening a project help!

[@DevTotal]

Oh man. That sounds complicated. We’re you able to fix it?

[@NoirRun]

You should also try Shader Control from the Asset Store.

[@DevTotal]

I will check that out. Thank you for the tip!

[@adrianlaskowski2655]

Just wanna say 38 minutes i a pretty good time. I’m waiting 23 hours

[@UTFapollomarine7409]

i building my game and had 200k yes a quarter million shaders to compile and i have a pic of it doing it for 24 hours :(

[@DevTotal]

Oh man, that is way too long. I hope you were able to bring the build time down. Good luck with your game. Please post a URL so I can check it out.

[@luisr.f1655]

In The video: 33 m Me: 13 H

[@DevTotal]

You can get there. Were you able to speed it up?

[@luisr.f1655]

@@DevTotal Yes, now it lasts 40 minutes, but that's normal for using a lower-middle-range laptop with a project with a lot of resources.

[@WORLDOFGREENSCREEN]

it is so short a time

[@DevTotal]

I was surprised myself.

[@WORLDOFGREENSCREEN]

@@DevTotal 😅