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Unity Cookbook - Fifth Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805123026

Pages 780 pages

Edition 5th Edition

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Authors (3):

Matt Smith

Shaun Ferns

Sinéad Murphy

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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

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

Setting up your system for Apple iOS mobile app development

There are some basic steps you need to perform so that your Unity Editor and Mac computer system are set up for Apple mobile development. In this recipe, you’ll learn how to add the modules you need to your editor application for mobile development, as well as how to link an Apple ID to the Mac Xcode program editor, which is used to build Apple iOS applications.

Getting ready

If you don’t have one already, create a free Apple ID. You can do this when you set up an Apple device, or you can visit the Apple ID section of Apple’s website: appleid.apple.com.

How to do it...

To set up up your system for Apple iOS mobile app development, do the following:

Open the Unity Hub application and choose the Installs tab on the left.
Now, for the version of the Unity Editor you wish to develop a mobile project for, click the settings “cog” button and click the Add modules...

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Authors (3)

Matt Smith

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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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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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