You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071482

Length 710 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Our First Level

2. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity

4. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects

5. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

6. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets

7. Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound

8. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

9. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

10. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

11. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing

12. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration

13. Chapter 11: User Interface Design

14. Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

15. Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

16. Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#

17. Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

18. Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning

19. Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System

20. Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition

21. Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics

22. Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

23. Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization

24. Section 4 – Releasing Your Game

25. Chapter 21: Building the Project

26. Chapter 22: Finishing Touches

27. Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity

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Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the basics of UI design, understanding the Canvas and RectTransform components to locate objects on screen and create a UI layout. We also covered different kinds of UI elements, mainly Image and Text, to give life to our UI layout and make it appealing to the user. Finally, we discussed how to adapt UI objects to different resolutions and aspect ratios to make our UI adapt to different screen sizes, even though we cannot predict the exact monitor our user will be playing the game on. All of this allows us to create any UI we will need in our game using Canvas.

In the next chapter, we will explore how to create UIs using UI Toolkit instead, another Unity system for creating UIs, and compare both Canvas and UI Toolkit to see where it's best to use each one.