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Hands-On Unity  Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity Game Development Unlock the power of Unity 2023 and build your dream game

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835085714
Length 742 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Unity FREE CHAPTER
2. Embark on Your Unity Journey 3. Crafting Scenes and Game Elements 4. From Blueprint to Reality: Building with Terrain and ProBuilder 5. Seamless Integration: Importing and Integrating Assets 6. Section 2: Mastering Programming and Gameplay Mechanics
7. Unleashing the Power of C# and Visual Scripting 8. Dynamic Motion: Implementing Movement and Spawning 9. Collisions and Health: Detecting Collisions Accurately 10. Victory or Defeat: Win and Lose Conditions 11. Starting Your AI Journey: Building Intelligent Enemies for Your Game 12. Section 3: Elevating Visuals, Effects, and Audio
13. Material Alchemy: Using URP and Shader Graph for Stunning Visuals 14. Captivating Visual Effects: Harnessing Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 15. Enlightening Worlds: Illuminating Scenes with the Universal Render Pipeline 16. Immersive Realism: Achieving Fullscreen Effects with Post-Processing 17. Harmonious Soundscapes: Integrating Audio and Music 18. Section 4: Designing User Interfaces, Animations and Advanced Concepts
19. Interface Brilliance: Designing User-Friendly UI 20. Next-Gen UI: Creating Dynamic Interfaces with UI Toolkit 21. Animated Realities: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 22. Performance Wizardry: Optimizing Your Game with Profiler Tools 23. From Prototype to Executable: Generating and Debugging Your Game 24. AR/VR 25. Massive Worlds: Introduction to DOTS 26. Other Books You May Enjoy
27. Index

Introducing scripting

Through coding, we can extend Unity’s capabilities in several ways to achieve the exact behavior we need, all through a well-known programming language—C#. However, aside from C#, Unity also has visual scripting, a way to generate code through a node graph tool.

This means you can create scripts without writing code but by dragging nodes, boxes that represent actions that can be chained:

Figure 5.1: Example of a visual scripting graph

While essentially both ways can achieve the same result, we can use them for different things. Usually, the core logic of a game is written in C# due to it usually being huge and very performance-sensitive. However, sometimes using visual scripts instead allows non-programmer team members, like artists or game designers, to have more freedom to edit minor changes in the game, especially regarding balancing or visual effects.

Another example would be game designers prototyping ideas through visual...

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