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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By : Philip Walker
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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

By: Philip Walker

Overview of this book

Unity Certified Programmer is a global certification program by Unity for anyone looking to become a professional Unity developer. The official Unity programmer exam will not only validate your Unity knowledge and skills, but also enable you to be part of the Unity community. This study guide will start by building on your understanding of C# programming and take you through the process of downloading and installing Unity. You’ll understand how Unity works and get to grips with the core objectives of the Unity exam. As you advance, you’ll enhance your skills by creating an enjoyable side-scrolling shooter game that can be played within the Unity Editor or any recent Android mobile device. This Unity book will test your knowledge with self-assessment questions and help you take your skills to an advanced level by working with Unity tools such as the Animator, Particle Effects, Lighting, UI/UX, Scriptable Objects, and debugging. By the end of this book, you’ll have developed a solid understanding of the different tools in Unity and understand how to create impressive Unity applications by making the most of its toolset.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Full Unity Programmer Mock Exam
Applying Art, Animation, and Particles

In this chapter, we'll apply several art effects to the player's ship and the scene that we previously created. We will use several maps that wrap around your player's ship to give it a sci-fi theme, including some pretty particle effects that we will add to our neon-blue jet. We will also introduce a space background, which will also be built from particle effects. Then, you will get your hands dirty by setting up your own Unity animator controller, which we can use to manipulate the particles we've created in our scene to give the impression that our player's ship is thundering through space at light speed, then slowing down before the enemies come to attack. Finally, we will apply some animation to the enemies in our script.

A lot of this chapter is about becoming familiar with what Unity can do as an editor and the majority of what we learn in the editor...