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Unity 5.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 5.x Cookbook More than 100 solutions to build amazing 2D and 3D games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391362
Length 570 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Core UI – Messages, Menus, Scores, and Timers FREE CHAPTER 2. Inventory GUIs 3. 2D Animation 4. Creating Maps and Materials 5. Using Cameras 6. Lights and Effects 7. Controlling 3D Animations 8. Positions, Movement and Navigation for Character GameObjects 9. Playing and Manipulating Sounds 10. Working with External Resource Files and Devices 11. Improving Games with Extra Features and Optimization 12. Editor Extensions Index

Adding a custom Reflection map to a scene


Whereas Unity Legacy Shaders use individual Reflection Cubemaps per material, the new Standard Shader gets its reflection from the scene's Reflection Source, as configured in the Scene section of the Lighting window. The level of reflectiveness for each material is now given by its Metallic value or Specular value (for materials using Specular setup). This new method can be a real time saver, allowing you to quickly assign the same reflection map to every object in the scene. Also, as you can imagine, it helps keep the overall look of the scene coherent and cohesive. In this recipe, we will learn how to take advantage of the Reflection Source feature.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will prepare a Reflection Cubemap, which is basically the environment to be projected as a reflection onto the material. It can be made from either six or, as shown in this recipe, a single image file.

To help us with this recipe, it's been provided a Unity package, containing...

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