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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)

Creating JSON strings from individual objects and lists of objects

The JsonUtility class allows us to easily create JSON strings from individual objects, and also Lists of objects.

How to do it...

To create JSON strings from individual and Lists of objects perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new C# script class named PlayerScore:
    using UnityEngine;

[System.Serializable]
public class PlayerScore {
public string name;
public int score;

public string ToJson() {
bool prettyPrintJson = true;
return JsonUtility.ToJson(this, prettyPrintJson);
}
}
  1. Create a new C# script class named PlayerScoreList:
    using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic...