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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 Update() method

The Update() method calls the RemoveAllBlips() method, which removes any old UI RawImage GameObjects of cubes and spheres that might currently be displayed. If we didn't remove old blips before creating new ones, then you'd see "tails" behind each blip as new ones are created in different positions – which could actually be an interesting effect.

Next, the FindAndDisplayBlipsForTag(...) method is called twice. First, for the objects tagged Cube, to be represented on the radar with the rawImageBlipCube prefab, and then again for objects tagged Sphere, to be represented on the radar with the rawImageBlipSphere prefab. As you might expect, most of the hard work of the radar is to be performed by the FindAndDisplayBlipsForTag(...) method.

This code is a simple approach to creating a radar. It is very inefficient to make repeated calls to FindGameObjectWithTag("Blip") for every frame from the Update() method. In a real game, it would be much better to cache all created blips in something such as a List or ArrayList, and then simply loop through that list each time.