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Unity 2020 By Example

Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By : Robert Wells
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Unity 2020 By Example

Unity 2020 By Example

3.9 (11)
By: Robert Wells

Overview of this book

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions. The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development. By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.
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Creating the explosive particle system

In this twin-stick shooter game, both the player and enemies are spaceships. Therefore, a suitable particle effect for their destruction would be an explosive fiery ball. To achieve explosions, we can use a particle system. This refers to a special kind of object that features two main parts, namely, a Hose (or Emitter) and Particles. The emitter spawns or generates new particles into the world, and the particles are many small objects or pieces that, once spawned, move and travel along a trajectory. Particle systems are ideal for creating rain, snow, fog, sparkles, or, in our case, explosions!

With that in mind, let's select and customize a particle system for our game.

Selecting the particle system

We can create our own particle systems from scratch using the menu option GameObject | Particle System, or we can use any pre-made particle system included with Unity. In this game, we'll use some of the premade particle systems...

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