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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 prepare a project for the Oculus Quest, do the following:

  1. Having set your Quest/2 to Developer Mode and installed the Android modules and VR template, create a new VR project in Unity.
  2. When Unity has loaded the new project, open the sample scene (in the Project window, go to the Scenes folder). 
  3. Open the Project Settings window by going to Edit | Project Settings....
  4. For the XR Plugin Management settings, choose the Android (robot icon) tab and then check the box for your Oculus VR device.
  5. Open the Build Settings dialog window (File | Build Settings...) and switch Build Target to Android.
  6. Connect your computer to your Quest headset using a USB-C data cable.
  7. Put on the Quest headset and confirm you are happy to put the Quest into USB Debug mode and that you accept the connection from the computer.

  1. Back in Unity, open the Build Settings dialog window. Under the Android...