You're reading from Hands-On Unity Game Development - Fourth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085714

Pages 742 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Concepts

Game Scripting

Authors (2):

Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Unity

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

Integrating and mixing audio

We can just drag our bits of audio into our scene to start using them, but we can dig a little bit further to explore the best ways to configure them to each possible scenario.

In this section, we will examine the following audio integration concepts:

Using 2D and 3D AudioSources
Using audio mixers

Let’s start exploring AudioSources, objects that are in charge of audio playback.

Using 2D and 3D AudioSources

AudioSources are components that can be attached to GameObjects. They are responsible for emitting sound in our game based on AudioClips, which are the audio assets we downloaded previously.

It’s important to differentiate an AudioClip from an AudioSource; we can have a single explosion AudioClip but lots of AudioSources playing it, simulating several explosions. An AudioSource can be seen as a CD player that can play AudioClips (our CDs in this analogy), only with the exception that we can have...