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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...

Having imported a bomb model into our project, we used a 100-times smaller (scaled 0.01) version to create a prefab for our game. Before saving the small bomb as a prefab, an instance of the BombBehaviour.cs C# script class was added as a component of the GameObject, and its public Explosion Prefab property was linked to the explosion prefab we created in the previous recipe.

A second script class called BombFeature.cs was added as a component to PlayerArmature, and its public Bomb Prefab property was linked to our new small bomb prefab. Since the starter assets our project is based on use the new Unity input system, we needed to write if (Keyboard.current[Key.B].wasReleasedThisFrame) to detect the B key being pressed and released. We also needed to add a using statement to import the UnityEngine.InputSystem package.

The feature we added used BombFeature.cs in ThirdPersonController to detect when the player presses the B key...