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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 to do it...

To get started with the 2021 third-person Starter Assets from Unity, follow these steps:

  1. Start a new 3D project and ensure you are logged in to your Unity account in the Unity Editor.
  2. Open the Unity Asset Store in a web browser and log in to your Unity account in the Asset Store.
  3. Search for and select the free Starter Assets - Third Person Character Controller from Unity Technologies in the Asset Store:

Figure 7.43 – Starter Asserts in the Asset Store
  1. Click Add to My Assets, and then, after the button changes, click Open in Unity.
  2. In your Unity Editor, the Package Manager panel should open, and the Starter Assets - Third Person Character Controller assets should be selected in the list of My Assets. Click Download, and when downloaded, click Import. Say Yes to any popup about resetting the project to use the new input system.
  3. In the Project panel, you should now see...