You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236919

Length 712 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating a Unity Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects

3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

4. Importing and Integrating Assets

5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

6. Implementing Movement and Spawning

7. Physics Collisions and Health System

8. Win and Lose Conditions

9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing

14. Sound and Music Integration

15. User Interface Design

16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler

19. Generating and Debugging an Executable

20. Augmented Reality in Unity

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the basics of UI, understanding the Canvas and RectTransform components to locate objects onscreen and create a UI layout. We also covered different kinds of UI elements, mainly Image and Text, to give life to our UI layout and make it appealing to the user. Finally, we discussed how to adapt UI objects to different resolutions and aspect ratios to make our UI adapt to different screen sizes, even though we cannot predict the exact monitor our user will be playing the game on. All of this allows us to create any UI we will need in our game using the Canvas.

In the next chapter, we will explore how to create UIs using UI Toolkit instead, another Unity system to create UIs, and compare both the Canvas and UI Toolkit to see where to use which.