Unity 2018 Cookbook: Over 160 recipes to take your 2D and 3D game development to the next level, 3rd Edition

by Matt Smith

Overview

With the help of the Unity 2018 Cookbook, you’ll discover how to make the most of the UI system and understand how to animate both 2D and 3D characters and game scene objects using Unity's Mecanim animation toolsets.
Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you will familiarize yourself with shaders and Shader Graphs, followed by understanding the animation features to enhance your skills in building fantastic games. In addition to this, you will discover AI and navigation techniques for nonplayer character control and later explore Unity 2018’s newly added features to improve your 2D and 3D game development skills. This book provides many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained comprehensive knowledge in game development with Unity 2018.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788477284
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/31/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	794
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

Matt Smith is a computing academic at what will soon become the Technological University of Dublin, Ireland. Matt started computer programming on a brand new ZX80 and submitted 2 games for his computing O-level exam. After nearly 10 years as a full-time student on a succession of scholarships, he gained several degrees in computing, including a PhD in computational musicology. In 1985 Matt wrote the lyrics, and was in the band (and sang, sorry about that by the way) whose music appeared on the B-side of the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open source Fungus Unity project. With his children he studies and teaches Taekwon-Do, and all three of them are beginning guitar lessons in 2018.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements
2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs
3. Inventory UIs
4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds
5. Creating Textures, Maps, and Materials
6. Shader Graphs and Video Players
7. Using Cameras
8. Lights and Effects
9. 2D Animation
10. 3D Animations
11. Webserver Communication and Online Version-Control
12. Controlling and Choosing Positions
13. Navigation Meshes and Agents
14. Design Patterns
15. Editor Extensions and Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI)