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Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide

You're reading from   Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide Expert tips and techniques to pass the Unity certification exam at the first attempt

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828424
Length 762 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Walker Philip Walker
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up and Structuring Our Project 2. Adding and Manipulating Objects FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Scripts and Taking a Mock Test 4. Applying Art, Animation, and Particles 5. Creating a Shop Scene for Our Game 6. Purchasing In-Game Items and Advertisements 7. Creating a Game Loop and Mock Test 8. Adding Custom Fonts and UI 9. Creating a 2D Shop Interface and In-Game HUD 10. Pausing the Game, Altering Sound, and a Mock Test 11. Storing Data and Audio Mixer 12. NavMesh, Timeline, and a Mock Test 13. Effects, Testing, Performance, and Alt Controls 14. Full Unity Programmer Mock Exam 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Making our shop scene support alternative screen ratios

In this section, we are going to take our current shop scene and make it compatible with various screen ratios. Currently, our shop visuals are made out of polygons, which look fine, but, for example, our selection grid of buttons at the bottom of the screen has the risk of being clipped off at the edges. We can also change the way we select our buttons by using Unity's Button component, which works within the Canvas:

Because of these UI changes, this will cut our code down and make it more efficient as we will be relying on click events. We will cover these later in this section.

Let's make a start by replacing the selection grid at the bottom of our shop scene.

Upgrading our shop selection

In this section, we are going to remove all of the shop buttons and replace them with a Horizontal Layout Group set of buttons to add the player's lives to the...

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