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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By : Robert Wells
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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By: Robert Wells

Overview of this book

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions. The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development. By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Configuring the cameras

In this section, we'll configure the scene and game camera. Remember that any changes to the scene camera won't change the playable game. It is only used to navigate the scene to help you create it, whereas changing the game's camera will change how the player views the game.

We'll start with the scene camera:

  1. Switch the Scene viewport to a top-down 2D view by clicking on the up arrow in the top-right corner of the Scene viewport:

    Figure 3.13 – Changing the viewport perspective

    You can confirm that the viewport is in a top view because it will list Top as the current view:

    Figure 3.14 – Top view in the Scene viewport

  2. From here, you can have the scene camera conform to the viewport camera exactly, giving you an instant top-down view for your game. Select the camera in the scene (or from the Hierarchy panel and choose GameObject | Align With View from the application menu).

This makes your game look much better...