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You're reading from Unity 2018 Cookbook Over 160 recipes to take your 2D and 3D game development to the next level

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788471909

Length 794 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Matt Smith

Francisco Queiroz

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements FREE CHAPTER

2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs

3. Inventory UIs

4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds

5. Creating Textures, Maps, and Materials

6. Shader Graphs and Video Players

7. Using Cameras

8. Lights and Effects

9. 2D Animation

10. 3D Animation

11. Webserver Communication and Online Version-Control

12. Controlling and Choosing Positions

13. Navigation Meshes and Agents

14. Design Patterns

15. Editor Extensions and Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI)

16. Working with External Resource Files and Devices

17. Working with Plain Text, XML, and JSON Text Files

18. Virtual Reality and Extra Features

19. Automated Testing

20. Bonus Chapters

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Using panels to visually outline the inventory UI area and individual items

We see four kinds of objects when playing a game:

GameObjects that have some visual elements, such as 2D and 3D objects.
UI elements located in World Space, so they appear next to GameObjects in the scene.
UI elements located in Screen Space - Camera, so they appear at a fixed distance from the camera (but can be obscured by GameObjects closer to the camera than these UI elements).
UI elements located in Screen Space - Overlay. These always appear above the other three kinds of visual element, and are perfect for Head Up Display (HUD) elements, such as inventories.

Sometimes we want to visually make it clear which elements are part of the UI HUD and which are visual objects in the scene. Unity UI Panels with an opaque or translucent background image are a simple and effective way to achieve this.

Panels...

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Authors (2)

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a computing academic at what will soon become the Technological University of Dublin, Ireland. Matt started computer programming on a brand new ZX80 and submitted 2 games for his computing O-level exam. After nearly 10 years as a full-time student on a succession of scholarships, he gained several degrees in computing, including a PhD in computational musicology. In 1985 Matt wrote the lyrics, and was in the band (and sang, sorry about that by the way) whose music appeared on the B-side of the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open source Fungus Unity project. With his children he studies and teaches Taekwon-Do, and all three of them are beginning guitar lessons in 2018.

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Francisco Queiroz

Chico Queiroz is a multimedia designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Chico initiated his career back in 2000, soon after graduating in Communications/Advertising (PUC-Rio), working with advergames and webgames using Flash and Director at LocZ Multimedia. Here he contributed to the design and development of games for clients, such as Volkswagen and Parmalat, along with some independent titles. Chico has a Master's Degree in Digital Game Design (University for the Creative Arts, UK). His final project was exhibited at events and festivals, such as London Serious Games Showcase and FILE. Chico has also published articles for academic conferences and websites, such as gameology.org, gamasutra.com, and gamecareerguide.com. He curated and organized an exhibition, held at SBGames 2009, which explored connections between video games and art. SBGames is the annual symposium of the Special Commission of Games and Digital Entertainment of the Computing Brazilian Society. Chico currently works as a Digital Designer at the Computer Graphics Technology Group (TecGraf), within the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he, among other responsibilities, uses Unity to develop interactive presentations and concept prototypes for interactive visualization software. He also works as a lecturer at PUC-Rio, teaching undergraduate Design students 3D modeling and Technology/CG for Games, in which Unity is used as the engine for the students' projects.

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