Unity UI Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive

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Paperback Dec 2015 284 pages 1st Edition

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Design and develop interactive and professional user interfaces (UIs) for games in Unity
Discover how to implement and deal with various in-game UI elements that will impress your players
This practical recipe guide will help you to efficiently create powerful and remarkable UIs using C# code

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With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games. This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we’ll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements. Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD scripting. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface.

Who is this book for?

If you are a game developer with some experience in Unity and C# and want to create the best interactive experience fast and intuitively, then this book is for you. If you are an intermediate game developer or an expert, these recipes will help you bring out the power of the new UI Unity system.

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Implement different kinds of counters and healthbars
Deal with timers and find out how to format them
Animate and vivify UI elements
Handle runtime customizations
Add complex Head-up displays (HUDs)
Design and implement 3D UIs
Integrate minimaps in the UI

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Francis Jan 12, 2016

This is a good reference for anyone working on a game in Unity 3D that requires a good user interface. The book is organized to provide 60 recipes, which are code snippets and instructions to create various user interface elements. This makes it possible to read the book in any order so you can just get to the parts you are currently interested in.If you are working on a game and decide you need a Health Bar for one of your game characters you can just skip to Chapter 2 read a few pages that are illustrated well showing various types of health bars and associated code and then follow the step by step "How to do it..." instructions.Amazon lets you look inside the book so do that to see a recipe you might be interested in and the style of the author.This book covered all the types of user interfaces that I was interested in and the information in Chapter 8 about "Creating a directional radar" gave me some new ideas for a game that I am working on. The recipes in this book easily saved me hours of development time that I could have wasted trying to implement the same thing that is documented well in this book.

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Bart Knowles Jan 08, 2016

I've been fumbling with Unity for many personal projects in recent years, now I'm trying to get more serious and turn it into a professional advantage. This cookbook comes as a very welcome bridge from my amateur days to (hopefully) better professional opportunities.It is extremely useful to be taken by the hand and guided step by step through implementing different elements of user interfaces. Boxes with "How to do it" and "How it works" clarify the most important issues at a glance.This is an extremely useful book. I read the electronic version and I am thinking of buying the paper version: it is more expensive but might turn out to be more wieldy in the long run.

Jan Dyrda Jan 07, 2016

I must tell you that this book... well, it delivers what is promised and give you even more.Pros:- It's written in very understandable way;- There's print-screen for almost every operation which means you'll need to be trying really hard to not understand what's written in Unity UI Cookbook;- Book contains tons of valuable tips and tricks. Some things you probably know already if you were developing anything in Unity already, but some tips were new for me.- If you know nothing about Unity UI and you can't decide what to choose... My choice would be this book;- Also: all code (working) is available for download which is nice touch for those who don't really like copying and pasting ;)What you'll learn from this book:General information about UI EssentialsHow to implement Counters and Health BarsHow to implement TimersHow to create Panels for MenusHow to decorate the UIHow to animate the UIHow to apply Runtime CustomizationsHow to implement Advance HUDsHow to dive into 3D UIsHow to create Minimaps... and that should be enough for the start. I have many Packt books and ebooks and this particular one was definitely worth money.

Rakesh Patibanda Jan 09, 2016

I have been a Unity freak for 4 years now and this book "Unity UI Cookbook" has the flavour, taste and spiciness for me to be able to call it a great dish. Are you are a novice or a pro user of Unity? Do not worry, you will find a recipe that suits your taste, always. I would highly recommend this book.

Cristian Gradisteanu Jan 21, 2016

Everything you need to know in order to be able to create beautiful and well designed user interfaces in Unity in once book. The book contains great information on how to create captivating and useful user interfaces (a must if you want to develop Unity games). It provides recipes that will help you please your players with engaging and modern interfaces. If you're considering developing Unity games...you can not skip this book!

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