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Practical Unity Game Development [Video]

By : Francesco Sapio
Book Image

Practical Unity Game Development [Video]

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

<p>Unity 3D is an industry standard tool, and this course will help you to master the latest features of the engine and bring your projects to success. This will include becoming familiar with Shader Graphs, Tilemap, Post Processing, Cinemachine, Timelines and other built-in tools.</p> <p>You will make breathtaking cut-scenes with the Timeline tools to enhance your game with action scenes, as well as direct every camera in the game by using Cinemachine, from gameplay to cutscenes, making your games always feel natural.</p> <p>In addition, you will build impressive 2D maps with Tilemap in no time, by customizing Tiles and Brushes, speeding up the level design process, and creating designing tools for yourself or your team.</p> <p>Moreover, you will create stunning materials with Shader Graph that can bring the look of your game to the next level, including creating special effects such as dissolve, teleporting or slicing.</p> <p>Finally, you will master the new rendering techniques such as GPU instancing to show thousands of assets on screen at once with little performance cost and give a specific mood or feel to your game by learning all about the new Post-Processing effects and how animate and blend between them.</p> <p>All the code and supporting files for this course are available on Github at: <a style="color: #fa8d11;" href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Unity-Game-Development" target="blank">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Unity-Game-Development</a></p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>This video course will take a hands-on approach, full of examples and easy to follow concepts that will enable you to complete tasks which will help them to gain confidence in using Unity.</p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 5
Shader Graphs
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Section 7
Color by Distance
This video shows how it is possible to use drive the Shader Graph based on external parameters, in particular position and distances. - Create a Sub-Graph to blend colors based on a generic distance - Learn about the different distances types - Create a different Graph for blending colors based on a World, Screen or Object position