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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By : Philip Walker
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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By: Philip Walker

Overview of this book

Unity Certified Programmer is a global certification program by Unity for anyone looking to become a professional Unity developer. The official Unity programmer exam will not only validate your Unity knowledge and skills, but also enable you to be part of the Unity community. This study guide will start by building on your understanding of C# programming and take you through the process of downloading and installing Unity. You’ll understand how Unity works and get to grips with the core objectives of the Unity exam. As you advance, you’ll enhance your skills by creating an enjoyable side-scrolling shooter game that can be played within the Unity Editor or any recent Android mobile device. This Unity book will test your knowledge with self-assessment questions and help you take your skills to an advanced level by working with Unity tools such as the Animator, Particle Effects, Lighting, UI/UX, Scriptable Objects, and debugging. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed a solid understanding of the different tools in Unity and understand how to create impressive Unity applications by making the most of its toolset.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Full Unity Programmer Mock Exam

Summary

In this chapter, we created a game loop; these are fundamental to game development, and sometimes application development. To create a game loop for our project, we needed multiple scenes that served their own purposes. We also needed to know when a scene started and when it should end. A scene ends when the player presses a button to continue, such as the 7 scene, or when the bootUp title automatically moves onto the next scene after so many seconds.

Apart from making our game loops, we also learned some new vector math components on the way, including Mathf.round, which is used to round off figures Vector3.distance, which is used to measure the distance between two Vector3 points; and Vector3.lerp, which is used to interpolate between two Vector3 points.

These are useful components in game development and will also likely be mentioned in the exam.

In the next chapter, we will be adding some polish to our placeholder scenes with custom fonts,...