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

Using AR Foundation

When it comes to AR, Unity has two main tools to create applications: Vuforia and AR Foundation. Vuforia is an AR framework that can work in almost any mobile device and contains all the needed features for basic AR apps, but with a paid subscription, we get more advanced features. On the other hand, the completely free AR Foundation framework supports the latest AR native features of our devices but is supported only in newer ones. Picking between one or the other depends a lot on the type of project you’re going to build and the target audience. However, since this book aims to discuss the latest Unity features, we are going to explore how to use AR Foundation to create our first AR app for detecting the positions of images and surfaces in the real world. So, we’ll start by exploring its API.

In this section, we will examine the following AR Foundation concepts: