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Unity 5.x By Example

Unity 5.x By Example

By : Alan Thorn
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Unity 5.x By Example

Unity 5.x By Example

3.7 (7)
By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.
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Configuring the game view

Now that we've imported all the essential textures for the project, let's configure the Game panel resolution and game camera. We should configure the game view correctly at the beginning of the project as it controls how we and, consequently, the end user sees the game. This, believe it or not, will help us when we come to creating the environment. We'll start with the Game panel's resolution, before moving on to configuring the game's camera.

Changing the Game panel's resolution

We'll use a resolution of 1024 x 600 for our game, which works well across many devices. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Free Aspect button from the Game tab on the toolbar.
  2. Select 1024 x 600 from the drop-down menu.

If the required resolution is not available, then do the following:

  1. Click on the + button from the bottom of the list.
  2. Enter a custom name in the Name field.
  3. Select Fixed Resolution...
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