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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development - Second Edition

By : Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development - Second Edition

By: Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Overview of this book

Learning how to use Unity is the quickest way to creating a full game, but that’s not all you can do with this simple, yet comprehensive suite of video game development tools – Unity is just as useful for creating AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and practical games for training and education. Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development outlines a practical journey to creating your first full game from the ground up, building it step-by-step and applying your knowledge as you progress. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to develop the game using several Unity tools. As you advance, you will learn how to use the Unity engine, create simple scripts using C#, integrate graphics, sound, and animations, and manipulate physics to create interesting mechanics for your game. You’ll be able to apply all the knowledge that you gain to a real-world game. Later chapters will show you how to code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and use profiling tools to ensure that the code runs efficiently. Finally, you'll work with Unity's AR tools to create AR experiences for 3D apps and games. By the end of this Unity book, you will have created a complete game and built a solid foundation in using a wide variety of Unity tools.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Our First Level
7
Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound
16
Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#
24
Section 4 – Releasing Your Game

Creating projects

Now that we have Unity installed, we can start creating our game. To do so, we need to create a project, which is a folder containing all the files that your game will comprise. These files are called assets and there are different types, such as images, audio, 3D models, script files, and so on. In this section, we will learn how to manage a project by addressing the following concepts:

  • Creating a project
  • Project structure

First, let's learn how to create a blank project so that we can start developing our project.

Creating a project

As with Unity installations, we will use the Unity Hub to manage projects. We need to follow these steps to create one:

  1. Open Unity Hub and click on the Projects button. Then, click on NEW, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

    Figure 2.13 – Creating a new project in Unity Hub

  2. Pick the Universal Render Pipeline template. We will be creating a 3D game with simple graphics, prepared...