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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

You're reading from   Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development Discover practical techniques and examples to create and deliver engaging games for Android and iOS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987336
Length 464 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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John P. Doran John P. Doran
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Preface 1. Building Your Game 2. Project Setup for Android and iOS Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Mobile Input/Touch Controls 4. Resolution-Independent UI 5. Advertising Using Unity Ads 6. Implementing In-App Purchases 7. Getting Social 8. Keeping Players Involved with Notifications 9. Using Unity Analytics 10. Making Your Title Juicy 11. Game Build and Submission 12. Augmented Reality 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Detecting surfaces

To detect surfaces within our real-world environment, we will need to make use of a new component, the AR Plane Manager. The AR Plane Manager allows us to create, remove, or update game objects in our scene based on the surfaces within the real-world environment. The following steps will automatically create invisible planes with colliders that we could possibly use for gameplay reasons:

  1. We no longer need the original cube we created, so we can delete it from the scene by right-clicking it and selecting Delete or by selecting it and pressing the Delete key.
  2. From the Hierarchy panel, select the AR Session Origin object. From there, add the AR Plane Manager component to it by clicking on the Add Component button at the bottom of the Inspector window and then typing in the name of the component and pressing Enter.

At this point, we will have surfaces being generated to our scene while being run but for things such as debugging, it would be a good idea to visually see...

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