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Unity 2018 Cookbook

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

C#

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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Authors (2)

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is computing academic at TUDublin (Technological University of Dublin) Ireland, where he leads the DRIVE Research Group (Digital Realities, Interaction, and Virtual Environments). 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 Ph.D. in computational musicology. In 1985, Matt wrote the lyrics and was in the band whose music appeared on the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open-source Unity Fungus visual scripting and dialogue system.

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Francisco Queiroz

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