Unity 2021 cookbook : over 140 recipes to take your Unity game development skills to the next level / Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Matt, author.

Ferns, Shaun, author.

Contributor:

Gregan, Chris, Forward author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer games--Development.

Computer games.

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (820 pages)

Edition:

4th ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Foreword

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Displaying Data with Core UI Elements

Technical requirements

Displaying a "Hello World" UI text message

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Styling substrings with rich text

Displaying a digital clock

Displaying a digital countdown timer

Creating a message that fades away

Displaying a perspective 3D Text Mesh

Making the text crawl as it does in the movie

Where to learn more

Creating sophisticated text with TextMeshPro

Rich text substrings for colors, effects, and sprites

Displaying an image

Working with 2D sprites and UI Image components

See also

Creating UIs with the Fungus open source dialog system

Creating a Fungus character dialog with images

Further reading

Chapter 2: Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs

Creating UI Buttons to move between scenes

Animating button properties on mouseover

Organizing image panels and changing panel depths via buttons

Moving up or down by just one position, using scripted methods.

Displaying the value of an interactive UI Slider

Displaying a countdown timer graphically with a UI Slider

Setting custom mouse cursors for 2D and 3D GameObjects

Setting custom mouse cursors for UI controls

Interactive text entry with Input Field

Toggles and radio buttons via toggle groups

Creating text and image icon UI Drop-down menus

Adding images to a Dropdown control

Displaying a radar to indicate the relative locations of objects

The Start() method

The Update() method

The FindAndDisplayBlipsForTag(...) method

The CalculateBlipPositionAndDrawBlip (...) method

The NormalizedPosition(...) method

The CalculateBlipPosition(...) method

The DrawBlip() method

Chapter 3: Inventory and Advanced UIs

Creating a simple 2D mini-game - SpaceGirl

Displaying single object pickups with carrying and not-carrying text

The PlayerInventory script class

The PlayerInventoryDisplay script class

Collecting multiple items and display the total number carried

Alternative - combining all the responsibilities into a single script

Displaying single-object pickups with carrying and not-carrying icons

How it works.

Displaying multiple pickups of the same object with multiple status icons

Revealing icons for multiple object pickups by changing the size of a tiled image

Using panels to visually outline the inventory UI area and individual items

Creating a C# inventory slot UI to display scripted components

Modifying the game for a second inventory panel for keys

Using UI Grid Layout Groups to automatically populate a panel

Automatically inferring the number of inventory slots based on the number of GameObjects tagged Star

Adding a horizontal scroll bar to the inventory slot display

Automatically changing the grid cell size based on the number of slots in the inventory

Displaying multiple pickups of different objects as a list of text via a dynamic list of scripted PickUp objects

Ordering items in the inventory list alphabetically

Using a Dictionary and Enums to display text totals for different objects

Creating a runtime UI Toolkit interface

Chapter 4: Playing and Manipulating Sounds

Playing different one-off sound effects with a single AudioSource component

Playing a sound at a static point in 3D world space

Playing and controlling different sounds each with its own AudioSource component

Creating just-in-time AudioSource components at runtime through C# scripting

Adding the CreateAudioSource(...) method as an extension to the MonoBehavior class

Delaying before playing a sound

Preventing an audio clip from restarting if it is already playing

Waiting for the audio to finish playing before auto-destructing an object

Scheduling a sound to play at a certain time

Audio visualization from sample spectral data

Adding visualizations to a second AudioSource component

Trying out different Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) window types

Synchronizing simultaneous and sequential music to create a simple 140 bpm music-loop manager

Adding visualizations to the four playing loops

Chapter 5: Creating 3D Objects, Terrains, Textures, and Materials

Creating 3D primitives and adding materials and textures

Enhancing the scene - adding a spotlight and wood material

Creating a new Material asset file in the Project window and then setting its Albedo to a texture

Converting and importing 3D models into a project

Highlighting GameObject materials on mouseover

Collider needed for custom meshes.

Changing the material's color in response to mouse events

Fading the transparency of a material

Destroying objects when fading is complete

Using the GameObject's alpha as our starting alpha value

Using a coroutine for our fading loop

Creating geometry with ProBuilder

Creating a house with ProBuilder

Creating and texture-painting terrains

Height painting terrains

Adding Terrain holes

Chapter 6: 2D Animation and Physics

Flipping a sprite horizontally - the DIY approach

Flipping a sprite horizontally - using Animator State Chart and transitions

Instantaneous swapping

Animating body parts for character movement events

Creating a three-frame animation clip to make a platform continually animate

Copying the animation relative to a new parent GameObject

Making a platform start falling once stepped on using a Trigger to move the animation from one state to another

Creating animation clips from sprite sheet sequences

Creating a platform game with tiles and tilemaps

Tile palettes for objects and walls.

Using sprite placeholders to create a simple physics scene.

ISBN:

9781839219276

1839219270

OCLC:

1281971151