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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 added two GameObjects to the scene that contain AudioSource components linked to music and dying sound clips. Additionally, you created a C# script class, called DelayedSoundManager, and added an instance to an empty GameObject. You associated the two AudioSource components in your GameObjects with the two public variables in your scripted component.

You created two buttons, as follows:

  • Button-music, with a click action to invoke the DelayedSoundManager.ACTION_PlayMusicNow() method
  • Button-dies, with a click action to invoke the DelayedSoundManager.PlayDiesSoundAfterDelay() method

The DelayedSoundManager.ACTION_PlayMusicNow() method immediately sends a Play() message to the audio source linked to the Pacman Opening Song AudioClip. However, the DelayedSoundManager.PlayDiesSoundAfterDelay() method sends a PlayDelayed(...) message to the audio source linked to the Pacman Dies AudioClip, passing a value of 1.0. This makes Unity wait one second...