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Unity 2018 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Matt Smith, Francisco Queiroz
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Book Image

Unity 2018 Cookbook - Third Edition

4 (2)
By: Matt Smith, Francisco Queiroz

Overview of this book

With the help of the Unity 2018 Cookbook, you’ll discover how to make the most of the UI system and understand how to animate both 2D and 3D characters and game scene objects using Unity's Mecanim animation toolsets. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you will familiarize yourself with shaders and Shader Graphs, followed by understanding the animation features to enhance your skills in building fantastic games. In addition to this, you will discover AI and navigation techniques for nonplayer character control and later explore Unity 2018’s newly added features to improve your 2D and 3D game development skills. This book provides many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques. By the end of this book, you'll have gained comprehensive knowledge in game development with Unity 2018.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Publisher-Subscriber pattern C# delegates and events

When events can be based on visibility, distance, or collisions, we can use such events as OnTriggerExit and OnBecomeInvisible. When events can be based on time periods, we can use coroutines. However, some events are unique to each game situation, and C# offers several methods of broadcasting user-defined event messages to scripted objects. One approach is the SendMessage(...) method, which, when sent to a GameObject, will check every Monobehaviour scripted component and execute the named method if its parameters match. However, this involves an inefficient technique known as reflection. C# offers another event message approach known as delegates and events, which we describe and implement in this recipe.

Delegates and events work in a similar way to SendMessage(...), but are much more efficient since Unity maintains a defined...