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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)

Automatically changing the grid cell size based on the number of slots in the inventory

Consider a situation where we wish to change the number of slots. An alternative to using scrollbars is changing the cell size in the Grid Layout Group component. We can automate this through code so that the cell size is changed to ensure that NUM_INVENTORY_SLOTS will fit the width of our panel, at the top of the canvas.

To automatically resize the cell size of Grid Layout Group for this recipe, we need to do the following:

  1. Comment out the third statement in the Awake() method for the C# PlayerInventoryDisplay script class:
// panelSlotGrid.GetComponent<RectTransform>().SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors( 
// RectTransform.Axis.Horizontal, width);
  1. Add the following Start() method to PlayerInventoryDisplay in the player-girl1 GameObject with the following code:
void Start() { 
  float panelWidth = panelSlotGrid.GetComponent<RectTransform>
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