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Unity Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity Cookbook Over 160 recipes to craft your own masterpiece in Unity 2023

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805123026
Length 780 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Sinéad Murphy Sinéad Murphy
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Matt Smith Matt Smith
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Shaun Ferns Shaun Ferns
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements 2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs FREE CHAPTER 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

Exploring Unity’s Particle Pack and reusing samples for your own games

Unity has published a great demonstration of Particle System effects as a package in the Asset Store. While it’s fine to explore the samples, by looking at the GameObjects in the scene and the asset files in the Project window, we can exploit these free resources and adapt them for our own projects.

In this recipe, we’ll explore the sample scene and create two versions of a new scene. One will give the effect of fire on the ground, while the second will look like a flaming torch attached to a concrete wall. In both cases, we’ll make use of fire Prefabs from the Unity examples.

Figure 15.2: Part of the Unity Particle System demo scene

How to do it...

To reuse Unity particle examples for your own games, follow these steps:

  1. Start a new Unity 3D project and ensure you are logged in to your Unity account in the Unity Editor.
  2. Open the Unity Asset Store...
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