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Unity 2021 Cookbook

Unity 2021 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns
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Unity 2021 Cookbook

Unity 2021 Cookbook

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By: Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns

Overview of this book

If you are a Unity developer looking to explore the newest features of Unity 2021 and recipes for advanced challenges, then this fourth edition of Unity Cookbook is here to help you. With this cookbook, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that will help you use the essential features of the Unity game engine to their fullest potential. You familiarize yourself with shaders and Shader Graph before exploring animation features to enhance your skills in building games. As you progress, you will gain insights into Unity's latest editor, which will help you in laying out scenes, tweaking existing apps, and building custom tools for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences. The book will also guide you through many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques, teaching you how to communicate with database-driven websites and process XML and JSON data files. By the end of this Unity book, you will have gained a comprehensive understanding of Unity game development and built your development skills. The easy-to-follow recipes will earn a permanent place on your bookshelf for reference and help you build better games that stay true to your vision.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs
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Inventory and Advanced UIs
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2D Animation and Physics
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Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More
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Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)

Cameras, Lighting, and Visual Effects

Whether you’re trying to make a better-looking game or you want to add interesting features, visual effects can add enjoyment and a more professional look and feel to many games:

Figure 13.1: Multiple light sources in Coco VR by Pixar and Magnopus (featured on the Unity website Made with Unity)

At the end of the day, what we can see is the color properties of the rectangular array of pixels (picture elements) that make up the screen (or screens, for VR) that we are looking at. The Unity game engine must use the GameObjects in a scene and their properties to decide what to render (draw) in the Game window. Some GameObjects model 3D objects, with properties relating to physical materials, and renderer components for configuring how they should be displayed. Other GameObjects simulate light sources.

Modern computers with powerful CPUs and GPUs are beginning to support real-time raytracing. Raytracing involves calculating...

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