Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “At that point, our URP shader is set up to use the scriptable render feature, which will automatically call the compute shader we prepared in our FillWithRed.compute asset and return a full red opaque color for each pixel on the screen.”

A block of code is set as follows:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Rendering;
[CreateAssetMenu(menuName = "Compute Assets/CH07/FillWithRed")]
public class ComputeFillWithRed : URPComputeAsset {
    public override void Render(CommandBuffer commandBuffer,
        int kernelHandle) {}
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

private void _GenerateGrid() {
    _cubes = new List<GameObject>();
    _cubeRenderers = new List<MeshRenderer>();
    _data = new Cube[gridSize * gridSize];
    ...
    for (int x = 0; x < gridSize; x++) {
        for (int y = 0; y < gridSize; y++) {
            ...
            _cubes.Add(g);
            _cubeRenderers.Add(r);
            _data[x * gridSize + y] = new Cube() {
                position = g.transform.position,
                color = color
            };
        }
    }
}

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “To get this incoming vector, we use the View Direction node – and the offset is then computed by multiplying it with a given float value.”

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