You're reading from Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803236919

Length 712 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Creating a Unity Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects

3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder

4. Importing and Integrating Assets

5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting

6. Implementing Movement and Spawning

7. Physics Collisions and Health System

8. Win and Lose Conditions

9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies

10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph

11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline

13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing

14. Sound and Music Integration

15. User Interface Design

16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit

17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler

19. Generating and Debugging an Executable

20. Augmented Reality in Unity

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Using the new Input System

We have been using the Input class to detect the buttons and axes being pressed, and for our simple usage that is more than enough. But the default Unity input system has its limitations regarding extensibility to support new input hardware and mappings.

In this section, we will explore the following concepts:

Installing the new Input System
Creating Input Mappings
Using Mappings in scripts

Let’s start exploring how to install the new Input System.

Installing the new Input System

To start using the new Input System, it needs to be installed like any other package we have installed so far, using the Package Manager. The package is just called Input System, so go ahead and install it as usual. In this case we are using version 1.4.2, but a newer one may be available when you read this chapter.