Mobile Game Development With Unity by Manning, Jon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

Resources Used in This Book Audience and Approach Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples O’Reilly Safari How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

I. The Basics of Unity 1. Introducing Unity

Hello, Book

Mobile Games

Hello, Unity

What’s Unity For? Getting Unity

2. A Tour of Unity

The Editor

Play Mode and Edit Mode

The Scene View

The Mode Selector Getting Around Handle Controls

The Hierarchy The Project View The Inspector The Game View Wrapping Up

3. Scripting in Unity

A Crash Course in C# Mono and Unity

MonoDevelop

Code completion Refactoring Building

Game Objects, Components, and Scripts

The Inspector Components

Important Methods

Awake and OnEnable Start

Start Versus Awake

Update and LateUpdate

Coroutines Creating and Destroying Objects

Instantiation Creating an Object from Scratch Destroying Objects

Attributes

RequireComponent Header and Space SerializeField and HideInInspector ExecuteInEditMode

Time in Scripts Logging to the Console Wrapping Up

II. Building a 2D Game: Gnome on a Rope 4. Getting Started Building the Game

Game Design Creating the Project and Importing Assets Creating the Gnome Rope

Coding the Rope Configuring the Rope

Wrapping Up

5. Preparing for Gameplay

Input

Unity Remote Adding Tilt Control

Creating a Singleton class Implementing an InputManager Singleton

Controlling the Rope Making the Camera Follow the Gnome Scripts and Debugging

Setting breakpoints

Setting Up the Gnome’s Code Setting Up the Game Manager

Setting Up and Resetting the Game Creating a New Gnome Removing the Old Gnome

Killing a gnome

Resetting the Game Dealing with Touching Reaching the Exit Pausing and Unpausing Handling the Reset Button

Preparing the Scene Wrapping Up

6. Building Gameplay with Traps and Objectives

Simple Traps Treasure and Exit

Creating the Exit

Adding a Background Wrapping Up

7. Polishing the Game

Updating the Gnome’s Art Updating the Physics Background

Layers Creating the Backgrounds Different Backgrounds The Bottom of the Well Updating the Camera

User Interface Invincibility Mode Wrapping Up

8. Final Touches on Gnome’s Well

More Traps and Level Objects

Spikes Spinning Blade Blocks

Particle Effects

Defining the Particle Material The Blood Fountain The Blood Explosion Using the Particle Systems

Main Menu

Scene Loading

Audio Wrapping Up and Challenges

III. Building a 3D Game: Space Shooter 9. Building a Space Shooter

Designing the Game

Getting the Assets

Architecture Creating the Scene

Ship

Camera follow

Space Station Skybox

Creating the skybox

Canvas

Wrapping Up

10. Input and Flight Control

Input

Adding the Joystick The Input Manager

Flight Control

Indicators

Creating the UI elements

Indicator Manager

Wrapping Up

11. Adding Weapons and Targeting

Weapons

Ship Weapons Fire Button

Target Reticle Wrapping Up

12. Asteroids and Damage

Asteroids

Asteroid Spawner

Damage-Dealing and Taking

Explosions

Wrapping Up

13. Audio, Menus, Death, and Explosions!

Menus

Main Menu Paused Screen Game Over Screen Adding a Pause Button

Game Manager and Death

Start Points Creating the Game Manager

Initial setup Starting the game Ending the game Pausing the game

Setting Up the Scene

Boundaries

Creating the UI Coding the Boundary

Final Polish

Space Dust Trail Renderers Audio

Spaceship Weapon effects

Explosions

Wrapping Up

IV. Advanced Features 14. Lighting and Shaders

Materials and Shaders

Fragment-Vertex (Unlit) Shaders

Global Illumination

Light Probes

Thinking About Performance

The Profiler Getting Data from Your Device General Tips

Wrapping Up

15. Creating GUIs in Unity

How GUIs Work in Unity

Canvas RectTransform The Rect Tool Anchors

Controls Events and Raycasts

Responding to Events

Using the Layout System Scaling the Canvas Transitioning Between Screens Wrapping Up

16. Editor Extensions

Making a Custom Wizard Making a Custom Editor Window

The Editor GUI API

Rects and layout How controls work Buttons Text fields

Delayed text fields Special text fields

Sliders Space Lists Scroll views

The Asset Database

Making a Custom Property Drawer

Creating the Class Setting the Height of the Property Overriding OnGUI Getting the Properties Creating a property scope Drawing the Label Calculating the Rectangles Getting the Values Creating the Change Check Drawing the Slider Drawing the Fields Checking for Changes Storing the Properties Testing It Out

Making a Custom Inspector

Creating a Simple Script Creating a Custom Inspector Setting Up the Class Defining the Colors and Properties Setting Up the Variables Starting to Draw the GUI Drawing the Controls Applying Changes Testing It Out

Wrapping Up

17. Beyond the Editor

The Unity Services Ecosystem

The Asset Store

PlayMaker

Installing PlayMaker Playing with PlayMaker

Amplify Shader Editor UFPS

Unity Cloud Build Unity Ads

Deployment

Setting Up Your Project Setting Your Target

Splash screens

Building for Your Platform

Building for iOS Building for Android

Where to Go from Here

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