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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 a Sprite GameObject and assigned it the Unity logo image. You imported some cursor images and set their Texture Type to Cursor so that they can be used to change the image for the user's mouse pointer. You also added a Box Collider to the Sprite GameObject so that it would receive OnMouseEnter and OnMouseExit event messages.

Then, you created the CustomCursorPointer script class and added an instance object of this class to the Sprite GameObject. This script tells Unity to change the mouse pointer when an OnMouseEnter message is received; that is, when the user's mouse pointer moves over the part of the screen where the Unity logo's sprite image is being rendered. When an OnMouseExit event is received (the user's mouse pointer is no longer over the cube part of the screen), the system is told to go back to the operating system's default cursor. This event should be received within a few milliseconds of the user's mouse exiting from the collider.

Finally, you selected the CursorTarget image to be the custom mouse cursor image the user sees when the mouse is over the Unity logo image.