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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 added instances of the DigitalCountdown and CountdownTimer C# script classes to your scene's UI Text GameObject.

The Awake() method caches references to the Text and CountdownTimer components in the countdownTimer and textClock variables. The textClock variable will be a reference to the UI Text component, whose text content we wish to update in each frame with a time-remaining message (or a timer-complete message).

The Start() method calls the countdown timer object's CountdownTimerReset(...) method, passing an initial value of 30 seconds.

The Update() method is executed in every frame. This method retrieves the countdown timer's remaining seconds and stores this value as an integer (whole number) in the timeRemaining variable. This value is passed as a parameter to the TimerMessage()  method, and the resulting message is stored in the string (text) variable message. Finally...