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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...

In this recipe, you created a UI Slider GameObject and set it to contain whole numbers in the range of 0 to 20.

You also added an instance of the SliderValueToText C# script class to the UI Text GameObject.

The Awake() method caches references to the Text component in the textSliderValue variable.

The Start() method invokes the ShowSliderValue() method so that the display is correct when the scene begins (that is, the initial slider value is displayed).

The ShowSliderValue() method gets the value of the slider and then updates the text that's displayed to be a message in the form of Slider value = <n>.

Finally, you added the ShowSliderValue() method of the SliderValueToText scripted component to the Slider GameObject's list of On Value Changed event listeners. So, each time the slider value changes, it sends a message to call the ShowSliderValue() method so that the new value is updated on the screen.