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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 created two UI Panels, each of which contains a background image of a playing card and a UI Button whose action will make its parent panel move to the front. You set the Alpha (transparency) setting of the background image's Color to 255 (no transparency).

You then added an OnClick event action to the button of each UI Panel. This action sends a SetAsLastSibling message to the button's Panel parent. When the OnClick message is received, the clicked Panel is moved to the bottom (end) of the sequence of GameObjects in Canvas, so this Panel is drawn last from the Canvas objects. This means that it appears visually in front of all the other GameObjects.

The button's action illustrates how the OnClick function does not have to be calling a public method of a scripted component of an object, but it can be sending a message to one of the non-scripted components of the targeted GameObject. In this recipe, we send the SetAsLastSibling message to the Rect Transform component of the panel where the button is located.