Build your own metaverse with unity : a practical guide to developing your own cross-platform metaverse with Unity3D and firebase / David Cantón Nadales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nadales, David Cantón, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unity (Electronic resource).

Firebase (Electronic resource).

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Video games--Design.

Virtual reality.

Metaverse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (587 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, [2023]

Biography/History:

Nadales David Canton: David Canton Nadales, software engineer from Seville, Spain, with more than 15 years of experience. He is currently a Technical Leader at Grupo Viajes El Corte Ingles, a leading travel company in Europe. He has done a multitude of projects and video games with Unity, VR/AR with Oculus, Hololens, HTC Vive, DayDream and LeapMotion. He was ambassador of the Samsung community "Samsung Dev Spain", and organizer of "Google Developers Group Sevilla". He led more than 100 projects throughout his career. As a social entrepreneur stands out Grita, a social network that emerged during the confinement of COVID-19 that allowed to talk to other people and help each other psychologically. In 2022 he won the Top Developers Awards organized by Samsung.

Summary:

Build Your Own Metaverse with Unity is a practical guide for developers with step-by-step explanations, practical examples, and screenshots to guide them through essential concepts. You’ll start by learning how to install Unity and create a character that can move around the virtual world. Next, you’ll learn how to integrate multiplayer functionality, user identification, and registration in your game universe. You’ll explore how to create interactive characters dealing with different attributes of the virtual world, including acquiring homes and decorating them with various features. Additionally, you’ll understand how to use Firebase tools to make your Metaverse unique. By following the expert advice, you’ll be able to create a feature rich Metaverse where players can interact with NPCs, acquire homes, and interact with other players online. Finally, you’ll discover how to compile and distribute the finished project to various platforms, while acquiring with necessary skills and knowledge to create a unique and groundbreaking Metaverse. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to create a Metaverse with infinite possibilities.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedications

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unity and Firebase

Technical requirements

Installing Unity Hub

Installing the Unity editor

Creating and managing Unity projects

Basics of using the Unity editor

Creating a new scene

Organizing your project assets

Choosing an input handler

Understanding the different Firebase services

What is Firebase for?

Configuring a new Firebase project

Installing the Firebase SDK

Summary

Chapter 2: Preparing Our Player

Creating a third-person controller

Testing our player

Working with colliders

Changing the default avatar

Adding Mobile Support

Chapter 3: Preparing Our Home Sweet Home: Part 1

Understanding the Hub concept

Designing the scene

Customizing the floor

Downloading the buildings

Assembling the buildings

Customizing sidewalks

Customizing the sky

The village fountain

Expanding the horizon

A greener town

Order and cleanliness

Chapter 4: Preparing Our Home Sweet Home: Part 2

Case study on the need for optimization

Understanding optimizations

Static/dynamic GameObjects

Camera occlusion (culling)

Light baking

Colliders

Adding the first world to the Firebase database

Chapter 5: Preparing a New World for Travel

Designing the Scene

Creating the scene

Creating the floor

Creating houses

Applying order

Limiting the Scene

Adding sidewalks

Adding trees

Adding the world to the Firebase database

Adding objects dynamically

Identifying ourselves in the system

Optimizing a dynamic Scene.

Summary

Part 2: And Now, Make It Metaverse!

Chapter 6: Adding a Registration and Login Form for Our Users

Creating a sign-up screen

Understanding Vertical Layout Group

Creating a sign-in screen

Placing the player

Chapter 7: Building an NPC That Allows Us to Travel

Choosing an aspect

Bringing the NPC to life

Triggering when we are close

Showing the available worlds in a window

Mobile support

Traveling to the selected world

Canvas

NPC

PlayerInstance

Chapter 8: Acquiring a House

The concept of home

Enabling a user to obtain a home

Adding a trigger to the Prefab of the house

Programming script to acquire a house

Linking a house to a player

Understanding what an NFT is

Converting a house to an NFT

IPFS

Goerli

ChainSafe

MetaMask

Mining cryptocurrencies

Programming the generation of the NFT

Chapter 9: Turning Our World into a Multiplayer Room

Getting started with Photon SDK

Pricing

Signing up for Photon SDK

Creating a new application

Installing Photon SDK

Photon life cycle

Regions

Rooms

Lobby

Synchronizing movements and animations in the network

Preparing the player Prefab

Disabling other players' scripts

Creating the network logic script

Adapting login for multiplayer support

Adapting world navigation for multiplayer support

Testing the changes

Testing synchronization with another user

Introducing ParrelSync

Installing ParrelSync

Chapter 10: Adding Text and a Voice Chat to the Room

Getting started with Photon Chat

Introduction to the Photon Chat SDK

Creating a Photon Chat project.

Configuring the project connection in Unity

Creating a chat window

Copying the essentials

Getting started with Photon Voice

Introduction to the Photon Voice SDK

Creating a Photon Voice project

Installing the Photon Voice SDK

Configuring the project connection in Unity

Transmitting your voice to the network

Part 3: Adding Fun Features Before Compiling

Chapter 11: Creating an NPC That Allows Us to Change Our Appearance

Triggering the NPC when we are close

Showing the available avatars in a window

Persisting the new appearance

Chapter 12: Streaming Video Like a Cinema

Introducing the VideoPlayer class

Designing our screen

Playing videos

Online reproduction

Local reproduction

Chapter 13: Adding Compatibility for the Meta Quest 2

Understanding what Meta Quest is

Technical requirements for the VR goggles

Cost of the Meta Quest 2 goggles

Getting started with the Meta Quest SDK

Preparation of the glasses

Developer Mode

Configuring our project

Adding VR compatibility to our project

Testing in Meta Quest 2

Preparing the other scenes

Chapter 14: Distributing

Optimizing textures

Compiling for different platforms

Windows, Mac, and Linux

Android

iOS

Next steps

Index

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781837635610

1837635617

OCLC:

1395182953