You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236919

Length 712 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating a Unity Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects

3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

4. Importing and Integrating Assets

5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

6. Implementing Movement and Spawning

7. Physics Collisions and Health System

8. Win and Lose Conditions

9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing

14. Sound and Music Integration

15. User Interface Design

16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler

19. Generating and Debugging an Executable

20. Augmented Reality in Unity

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Scripting the UI

We previously created a UI layout with elements such as bars, text, and buttons, but so far, they are static. We need to make them adapt to the game’s actual state. In this section, we are going to discuss the following UI scripting concepts:

Showing information in the UI
Programming the Pause menu

We will start by seeing how to display information on our UI using scripts that modify the text and images that are displayed with Canvas elements. After that, we will create the Pause functionality, which will be used throughout the UI.

Showing information in the UI

As discussed earlier, we will use the UI to display information to the user to allow them to make informed decisions, so let’s start by seeing how we can make the player’s health bar react to the amount of life they have left in the Life script we created earlier: