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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)
Web Server Communication and Online Version Control

A server waits for messages requesting something for a client, and when one is received, it attempts to interpret and act upon the message, and send back an appropriate response to the client. A client is a computer program that can communicate with other clients and/or servers. Clients send requests, and receive responses in return.

It is useful to keep the following four concepts in mind when thinking about and working with client-server architectures:

  • Client
  • Server
  • Request
  • Response

The world is networked, which involves many different clients communicating with other clients, and also with servers.

Each of the Unity deployment platforms illustrates an example of a client:

  • WebGL (running in a web browser)
  • Windows and Mac applications
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Microsoft Xbox
  • Sony Playstation
  • Mobile devices, such as tablets...