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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 to do it...

To create and set up a project for VR, do the following:

  1. Open the Unity Hub application and choose the Installs tab on the left.
  2. Now, select the version of Unity you wish to develop your VR projects with.
  3. Next, add the Android Build Support modules to your application and click Done.
  4. Ensure that both the Android SDK/NDK Tools and OpenJDK sub-modules are checked, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 15.9  Installing the Android modules with Unity Hub
  1. In the Unity Hub application, choose the Projects tab on the left and click the NEW button for your version of Unity.
  1. After a few seconds, additional templates should be displayed. Find the VR template and click the Download button:
Figure 15.10  Installing the VR project template from Unity Hub
  1. Now, select the VR template and choose a new location for your project. Then, click the CREATE button.
  2. After a moment, Unity should start up, with a pop-up window welcoming...