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Augmented Reality Game Development

By : Micheal Lanham
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Augmented Reality Game Development

By: Micheal Lanham

Overview of this book

The heyday of location-based augmented reality games is upon us. They have been around for a few years, but the release of Pokémon Go was a gamechanger that catalyzed the market and led to a massive surge in demand. Now is the time for novice and experienced developers alike to turn their good ideas into augmented reality (AR) mobile games and meet this demand! If you are keen to develop virtual reality games with the latest Unity 5 toolkit, then this is the book for you. The genre of location-based AR games introduces a new platform and technical challenges, but this book will help simplify those challenges and show how to maximize your game audience. This book will take you on a journey through building a location-based AR game that addresses the core technical concepts: GIS fundamentals, mobile device GPS, mapping, map textures in Unity, mobile device camera, camera textures in Unity, accessing location-based services, and other useful Unity tips. The technical material also discusses what is necessary for further development to create a multiplayer version of the game. At the end, you will be presented with troubleshooting techniques in case you get into trouble and need a little help.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Augmented Reality Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Building the AR Catch scene


The build up is over; we are finally here: creating the action scene where the players bravely catch the monster. Also, this will be our introduction to incorporating AR into our game. There is lots to do to get this all completed by the end of the chapter, so let's get going. We will start by creating a new Catch scene:

  1. Create a new scene by selecting menu item File | New Scene. Then, select File | Save Scene As... from the menu. In the Save scene dialog, enter the name of Catch and click on the Save button.
  2. From the menu, select GameObject | Create Empty. Rename the new object CatchScene and reset its transform to zero in the Inspector window.
  3. In the Hierarchy window, drag and drop the Main Camera and Directional Light objects on to the CatchScene object, to reparent them.
  4. From the menu, select GameObject | UI | Raw Image. This will create a Canvas object with the Raw Image as a child. Select and rename the RawImage object to Camera_Backdrop in the Inspector window...