You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development Build, customize, and optimize professional games using Unity 2020 and C#

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838642006

Length 580 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Tools

Unity

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3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch

2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and GameObjects

4. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

5. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets

6. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

7. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and VFX Graph

8. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

9. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with postprocessing

10. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration

11. Chapter 11: User Interface Design

12. Chapter 12: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

13. Chapter 13: Introduction to Unity Scripting with C#

14. Chapter 14: Implementing Movement and Spawning

15. Chapter 15: Physics Collisions and Health System

16. Chapter 16: Win and Lose Conditions

17. Chapter 17: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics

18. Chapter 18: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

19. Chapter 19: Scene Performance Optimization

20. Chapter 20: Building the Project

21. Chapter 21: Finishing Touches

22. Chapter 22: Augmented Reality in Unity

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Understanding Canvas and RectTransform

Currently, there are three UI systems available in Unity for different purposes:

UI Elements: A system to extend the Unity Editor with custom windows and tools. This uses several web concepts, such as stylesheets and XML-based language, to lay out your UI. In the future, it will be available to use in-game.
Unity UI: A GameObject-based UI only applicable for in-game UIs (not editor extensions). You create it using GameObjects and components like any other object we have edited so far.
IMGUI: A legacy code-based UI created entirely by using scripting. A long time ago, this was the only UI system used in both the editor and the in-game UI. Nowadays, it is only used to extend the editor and will soon be completely replaced by UI Elements.

In this chapter, we are only going to focus on in-game UI to communicate different information to the player regarding the state of the game, so we are going to use Unity UI. At the time...