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Unity 5 for Android Essentials

You're reading from Unity 5 for Android Essentials A fast-paced guide to building impressive games and applications for Android devices with Unity 5

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784399191

Length 200 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Valera Cogut

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up and Configuring an Android Platform

2. Accessing Android Functionality FREE CHAPTER

3. High-end Graphics for Android Devices

4. Animation, Audio, Physics, and Particle Systems in Unity 5

5. Asset Bundles in Unity 5 Pro

6. Optimization and Transformation Techniques

7. Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Index

Global illumination

During the, Game Developers Conference in 2014, which started on March 17 in San Francisco, the company Unity Technologies introduced the fifth generation of its popular game engine Unity. One of the most important features that distinguishes it from the previous edition is a new system of global illumination in real time—Enlighten—implemented with the participation of experts from the British company, Geomerics.

Global illumination

Unity 5 is presented with support from WebGL standard web module optimization asm.js, physics engine NVIDIA PhysX 3.3, the system of creation and animation vegetation—SpeedTree, an advanced shader system, the preview function light maps in real time, and a cross-processed audio advertising network in Unity Cloud that facilitates the promotion of mobile games. In addition, the fifth version of the engine will be able to run in a 64-bit environment that significantly simplifies the workflow through a new multi-threaded scheduler, and provides...

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Authors (1)

Cogut

Cogut

Valera Cogut is an independent professional software and video game developer who has worked in the game industry since 2008 and has more than 12 years of programming experience. He is a passionate software and game developer with different areas of expertise. Before diving into the game industry 6 years ago, Valera created websites and applications with PHP, the Yii framework, the Zend framework, Relational Database Management Systems, Apache and Nginx, C#, C++, C, Objective-C, Java, Python, UML, and many other technologies. Having a mathematical background (analytical geometry, linear algebra, logic, statistics and probability, differential equations, graph theory, and mathematical analysis), he finally realized that game development was his mission. Reusable designs, optimized algorithms, clean code, and elaborated workflowsthese things make him happy. Valera has had the opportunity to produce titles for multiple platforms, including Windows Phone, Android, iOS, PC, and Mac. Today, he continues to produce fun and original games, participate in game jams, and author books. He was a technical reviewer for Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing. Currently, Valera has a contract as a Unity3D C# developer for Kaufcom GmbH, a well-known games and apps producer from Switzerland http://www.kauf.com (Android games: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=kaufcom).

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