You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071482

Length 710 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Our First Level

2. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity

4. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects

5. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

6. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets

7. Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound

8. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

9. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

10. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

11. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing

12. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration

13. Chapter 11: User Interface Design

14. Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

15. Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

16. Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#

17. Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

18. Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning

19. Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System

20. Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition

21. Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics

22. Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

23. Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization

24. Section 4 – Releasing Your Game

25. Chapter 21: Building the Project

26. Chapter 22: Finishing Touches

27. Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity

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Scripting feedback

We just used the UI to pass on data to the user so that they know what is happening, but sometimes that's not enough. We can reinforce game events using other types of feedback, such as sound and explosions, which we integrated into previous chapters.

In this section, we will explore the following feedback concepts:

Scripting visual feedback
Scripting audio feedback
Scripting animations

We will start seeing how to make our gameplay have more feedback, with different visuals used in the right moments, such as audio and particle systems. Then, we are going to make the animations of our characters match these moments, for example, we will create the illusion that they are actually walking.

Scripting visual feedback

Visual feedback is the concept of using different VFX, such as particles and a VFX graph, to reinforce what is happening. For example, say right now we are shooting, and we know that this is happening because we can see...