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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)

How it works...

The main difference from the normal working environment is that we have added two GameObjects called AR Session Origin and AR Session to the Hierarchy window. AR Session Origin and AR Session are important, so it's worth understanding a little bit about each:

  • AR Session Origin: This is the parent for an AR setup. It contains a camera and any GameObjects that have been created from detected features such as planes and point clouds. AR Session Origin defines the origin of the project. If you select this object in the Hierarchy window, in the Inspector window, you will see that it has the AR Session Origin (Script) component. It also has a child GameObject named AR Camera, containing a Camera and other AR Script components. This is the AR camera that we see. It will be rendering what the camera sees behind it, and any AR features inside of Unity will be on top of that.
  • AR Session: As described in the Unity...