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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 a movable NavMesh Obstacle, please follow these steps:

  1. Create a Material object in the Project window and name it m_green, with Main Color tinted green.
  2. Create a red 3D Cube for the player to control called Cube-player, making it red by adding a m_red material to it and making it large by setting its scale to (3,3,3).
  1. Add an instance of the provided PlayerControl C# script class as a component to this GameObject.
  2. In the Inspector window, add a Navigation | NavMesh Obstacle component to Cube-player and check its Carve property.
  3. Run the game. You can move the player-controlled red Cube so that it gets in the way of the moving Sphere-arrow GameObject. When 0.5 of a second of the Obstacles Time-to-stationary NavMesh is reached and with Gizmos displayed, you'll see the carving out of the NavMesh so that the area occupied by Cube-player, and a little way around it, is removed from the NavMesh...