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Hands-On Unity  Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity Game Development Unlock the power of Unity 2023 and build your dream game

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835085714
Length 742 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

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

Next-Gen UI: Creating Dynamic Interfaces with UI Toolkit

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to create user interfaces using uGUI (also known as Canvas), one of the most common Unity UI systems, but as we already mentioned, this is not the only one. While, so far, uGUI has been the most preferred option, Unity is working on a replacement called UI Toolkit, and even if it doesn’t have feature parity with uGUI yet, we thought it is worth covering it in this book.

The idea of this chapter is to create the same UI we created previously but with UI Toolkit, so you can get an idea of how creating a UI in Unity will look soon.

In this chapter, we will examine the following UI concepts:

  • Why learn how to use UI Toolkit?
  • Creating a UI with UI Toolkit
  • Making a responsive UI with UI Toolkit

By the end of the chapter, you will learn how to use UI Toolkit to create basic UIs for our game, redoing the UI we did in the last chapter as a point of...

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