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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)

The DrawBlip() method

The DrawBlip() method takes the input parameters of the position of the blip (as a Vector2 X, Y pair) and the reference to the RawImage prefab to be created at that location on the radar.

A new GameObject is created (instantiated) from the prefab and is parented to the radar GameObject (of which the scripted object is also a component). A reference is retrieved from the Rect Transform component of the new RawImage GameObject that has been created for the blip. Calls to the Unity RectTransform method, 
SetInsetAndSizeFromParentEdge(...)result in the blip GameObject being positioned at the provided horizontal and vertical locations over the radar image, regardless of where in the Game window the background radar image has been located.