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Published in Jan 2024

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ISBN-13 9781835085714

Length 742 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Unity

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Game Scripting

Authors (2):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

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

Creating a responsive UI

Nowadays, it is almost impossible to design a UI in a single resolution, and our target audience display devices can vary a lot. A PC has a variety of different kinds of monitors with different resolutions (such as 1080p and 4K) and aspect ratios (such as 16:9, 16:10, and ultra-wide), and the same goes for mobile devices. We need to prepare our UI to adapt to the most common displays, and Unity UI has the tools needed to do so.

In this section, we will explore the following UI responsiveness concepts:

Adapting object positions
Adapting object sizes

We are going to explore how the UI elements can adapt their position and size to different screen sizes using the advanced features of the Canvas and RectTransform components, such as Anchors and Scalers.

Adapting object positions

To ensure our UI adjusts correctly across different devices, let’s focus on adapting object positions using anchors.

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