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Unity 2021 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Shaun Ferns
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Unity 2021 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: 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)
Free Chapter
2
Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs
3
Inventory and Advanced UIs
6
2D Animation and Physics
13
Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More
15
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)

Using GitHub Pages to publish your WebXR project for free

GitHub offers us a way to publish a free website for each project with a feature called GitHub Pages. The simplest way to do this is to have a docs folder in your GitHub project. To publish your WebXR project using GitHub Pages, do the following:

  1. First, create a project on GitHub and clone it to your computer. The steps for this can be found in the Creating and cloning a GitHub repository recipe of chapter Chapter 8, Web Server Communication and Online Version Control.
  2. Build your Unity WebXR to a new folder named docs in the GitHub project folder you cloned to your computer.
  3. Add all the files to the current Git snapshot by typing git add in the command-line terminal.
  4. Create a snapshot of the added files by typing git commit -m "created docs folder" in the command-line terminal.
  5. Push the files from your computer up to the GitHub cloud server by typing git push in the command...