With our main character in hand, let's give him a home and a place to walk around. In this chapter, we will cover the basics of creating immersive areas where players can walk around and interact, as well as some of the techniques used to manage those areas.
This chapter will give you some practical tips and tricks of the spritesheet system introduced with Unity 4.3 and how to get it to work for you.
Lastly, we will also have a cursory look at how shaders work in the 2D world and the considerations you need to keep in mind when using them. However, we won't be implementing shaders as that could be another book in itself.
The following is the list of topics that will be covered in this chapter:
Working with environments
Looking at sprite layers
Handling multiple resolutions
An overview of parallaxing and effects
Shaders in 2D – an overview