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Unity Certified Programmer Exam Guide

You're reading from   Unity Certified Programmer Exam Guide Pass the Unity certification exam with the help of expert tips and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246215
Length 766 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Summary

This chapter covered a variety of topics, including understanding Unity's Audio Mixer, which is where we can control the sounds in our game, and altering levels with our script. Then, we moved on and looked at storing data with PlayerPrefs and custom storage in JSON format in order to recognize the differences between the two ways of storing data. For JSON, we converted our data from object-based data into bytes and stored the results in a file (serialization).

In future projects, you will likely make use of the coding we covered in the last two chapters regarding storing and reapplying data such as music and sound effect volume sliders. Hopefully, you will also be able to go further with this data by using other components in your projects so that your game can send out data onto the cloud and monitor your players' progress as helpful feedback to improve development.

In the next chapter, we are going to look at pathfinding and how to improve the overall performance...

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