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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 create a Unity game that communicates with the web server leaderboard, perform the following steps:

  1. Import the Unity package provided, UnityLeaderboardClient.
  2. Run the Scene provided.
  1. Ensure that your PHP leaderboard is up and running.
  2. If you are not running locally (localhost:8000), you'll need to update the URL by selecting Main Camera in the Hierarchy window, and then editing the Leader Board URL text for the Web Leader Board (Script) component in the Inspector window:

Figure 8.7 Setting a website URL public variable in the Inspector window
  1. Click on UI Buttons to make Unity communicate with the PHP scripts that have access to the high-score database.