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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)

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, Unity 2021.1 or later is required, plus the following:

  • Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) / GPU: DX10-, DX11-, and DX12-capable
  • macOS Sierra 10.12.6+ / GPU: Metal-capable Intel or AMD
  • Linux Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7 / GPU: OpenGL 3.2+ or Vulkan-capable, NVIDIA, or AMD

For each chapter, there is a folder with the asset files you require for the recipes at the book's public GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unity-2021-Cookbook-Fourth-Edition.

Since some of the recipes in this chapter make use of web servers and a database, for those recipes, you will require either the PHP language (which comes with its own web server and SQLite database features) or an AMP package.

If you are installing the PHP language, refer to the installation guide and download links:

If you do want to install a web server and database server application, a...