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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 imported some cursor images and set their Texture Type to Cursor so that they could be used to change the image for the user's mouse pointer. You also created a UI Button GameObject and added to it an Event Trigger component.

You then added an instance of the CustomCursorPointer C# script class to the Button GameObject and selected the magnifying glass-style CursorZoom image.

After that, you created a PointerEnter event and linked it to invoke the OnMouseEnter method of the instance of the CustomCursorPointer script in the Button GameObject (which changes the mouse pointer image to the custom mouse cursor).

Finally, you created a PointerExit event and linked it to invoke the OnMouseExit method of the instance of the CustomCursorPointer C# script class to the Button GameObject (which resets the mouse cursor back to the system default).

Essentially, you have redirected PointerEnter/Exit events to invoke the OnMouseEnter/Exit methods of the CustomCursorPointer C# script class so that we can manage custom cursors for 2D, 3D, and UI GameObjects with the same scripting methods.