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Hands-On Unity  Game Development - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835085714
Pages 742 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Authors (2):
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
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

Why learn how to use UI Toolkit?

I know the topic of this chapter might sound a little bit confusing; we just learned how to use a whole Unity system to create our UI, and now we are learning how to use another one! Why do we have to learn about this new one?

One reason for learning both systems is that UI Toolkit, while promising, doesn’t yet match uGUI in feature completeness, which is crucial for real-world production. Another thing to take into account is that even if UI Toolkit is stable enough, it’s still a relatively new system, and there are still lots of games in development that were created on older Unity versions that don’t support it. This means that in order to land a job in this industry, we need to get a decent amount of exposure to uGUI, due to most games being created with this technology.

This happens because it’s not safe or practical to update an already-tested and working game with new technologies; such changes could lead...

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