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Unity Cookbook

You're reading from Unity Cookbook Over 160 recipes to craft your own masterpiece in Unity 2023

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805123026

Length 780 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Scripting

Authors (3):

Sinéad Murphy

Matt Smith

Shaun Ferns

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements

2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs FREE CHAPTER

3. Inventory and Advanced UIs

4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds

5. Textures, Materials, and 3D Objects

6. Creating 3D Environments with Terrains

7. Creating 3D Geometry with ProBuilder

8. 2D Animation and Physics

9. Animated Characters

10. Saving and Loading Data

11. Controlling and Choosing Positions

12. Navigation Meshes and Agents

13. Cameras, Lighting, and Visual Effects

14. Shader Graphs and Video Players

15. Particle Systems and Other Visual Effects

16. Mobile Games and Applications

17. Augmented Reality (AR)

18. Virtual and Extended Reality (VR/XR)

19. Advanced Topics – Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Displaying Data with Core UI Elements

A key element that contributes to the entertainment and enjoyment of most games is the quality of the player’s visual experience, and an important part of this is the user interface (UI). UI elements involve ways for the user to interact with the game (such as buttons, cursors, and text boxes), as well as ways for the game to present up-to-date information to the user (such as the time remaining, current health, score, lives left, or location of enemies). This chapter is filled with UI recipes to give you a range of examples and ideas for creating game UIs.

This chapter is all about the Unity UI system. This is based on GameObjects and their components, and the recommended system for runtime player visual UIs. There are other UI systems in Unity (UI Toolkit and IMGUI), but these are mostly used for Unity Editor design-time interfaces.

Every game and interactive multimedia application is different, and so this chapter...

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Authors (3)

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a computing academic at what will soon become the Technological University of Dublin, Ireland. Matt started computer programming on a brand new ZX80 and submitted 2 games for his computing O-level exam. After nearly 10 years as a full-time student on a succession of scholarships, he gained several degrees in computing, including a PhD in computational musicology. In 1985 Matt wrote the lyrics, and was in the band (and sang, sorry about that by the way) whose music appeared on the B-side of the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open source Fungus Unity project. With his children he studies and teaches Taekwon-Do, and all three of them are beginning guitar lessons in 2018.

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Sinéad Murphy

Sinéad Murphy

Sinead Murphy is currently Data Analytics Manager for the Irish NGO Trocaire. She has over 25 years of computing experience, including freelance IT training and database consulting, university lecturing in mathematics, IT skills and programming at TU Dublin (Ireland) and Middlesex University (London). She is a published academic, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics, computing and data science. She is passionate about the use of IT for understanding and visualising data, and using that understanding to make meaningful differences in the world. She is currently exploring the use of Python and Unity for data analytics and interactive visualisations.

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Shaun Ferns

Shaun Ferns

Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.

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