Unity 5 for Android essentials : a fast-paced guide to building impressive games and applications for Android devices with Unity 5 / Valera Cogut.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cogut, Valera, author.

Series:

• Community experience distilled.
• Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Android (Electronic resource).
• Application software--Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Fast-paced guide to building impressive games and applications for Android devices with Unity 5

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This book is perfect for game developers who want to learn how to develop, optimize, and publish games for Android devices in a quick and easy manner using Unity 5. This book assumes a basic knowledge of game design concepts and/or some experience with other game technologies such as Unreal Engine 4, CryEngine, or GameMaker.

Contents:

• Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting Up and Configuring an Android Platform; Configuring Unity 5 for Android devices; APK expansion files in Unity 5; Overview; Formats; The updating process; Setting up expansion files in Unity 5; Building for Android devices; Unity License Comparison Overview; NavMeshes, pathfinding, and crowd simulation; Level of Detail (LOD) support; Audio filters; Video playback and streaming; Full-fledged streaming with asset bundles; Hundred thousand Dollar turnover
• Mecanim - IK RigsMecanim - sync layers and additional curves; Custom splash screen; Build size stripping; Lightmapping with global illumination and area lights; HDR and tone mapping; Occlusion culling; Light probes; Static batching; Render-to-texture effects; Fullscreen postprocessing effects; Navmesh - dynamic obstacles and priority; .NET socket support; Profiler and GPU profiling; Real-time directional shadows; Script access to asset pipeline; Summary; Chapter 2: Accessing Android Functionality; Creating Java and native C plugins for an Android platform; Creating plugins in C
• Creating plugins in Java (Eclipse IDE)Writing Java code in plugin; Turning on and off a hardware flashlight; On Unity side; Exporting and importing a JAR library from Eclipse into Unity; Importing AndroidManifest; Using Java plugins in Unity scripts; Anti-piracy check; Vibration; Activity Indicator; Screen orientation; System information; Accessing the Android sensors and features within Unity 5; Acceleration; Gyroscope; Compass; Summary; Chapter 3: High-end Graphics for Android Devices; Physically-based shaders; Basic shader concepts; The vertex shader; The geometry shader
• The pixel/fragment shaderShading languages; Cg; Unity shaders in Cg; A custom diffuse lighting model; A basic reflection environment; Masked texture reflection; Lighting model techniques; The Lit sphere model; Realistic rendering; Global illumination; Practicing in shader optimization; Best case practice; Summary; Chapter 4: Animation, Audio, Physics, and Particle Systems in Unity 5; New mecanim animation features in Unity 5; State machine behavior; State machine transition; Asset creation API; Direct blend tree; Programmatically creating assets by Unity 5 API; Creating the controller
• Adding parametersAdding state machines; Adding states; Adding transitions; Going deeper into new audio features; Mood transitions; Physics and particle system effects in Unity 5; Particle system performance tips and tricks; Legacy versus Shuriken Unity's built-in particle systems; Particle system tips; Summary; Chapter 5: Asset Bundles in Unity 5 Pro; An overview of the asset bundles in Unity 5; Downloading new code and data in real time for Android devices; Managing loaded asset bundles; Asset bundles and binary data; Asset bundles and scripts; Asset bundle dependencies
• Safeness techniques in practice

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2015).

ISBN:

• 9781784391218
• 1784391212