Unity Game Development Cookbook by Buttfield-Addison, Paris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Preface

Resources Used in This Book Audience and Approach Organization of This Book Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples O’Reilly Online Learning Platform How to Contact Us Acknowledgments

1. Working with Unity

1.1. Getting Around in Unity 1.2. Working with Game Objects 1.3. Working with Components 1.4. Working with Prefabs 1.5. Working with Scenes 1.6. Managing Assets 1.7. Building Unity Projects 1.8. Accessing Preferences

2. Scripting

2.1. Working with MonoBehaviours 2.2. Using Callbacks 2.3. Creating Frame Rate–Independent Behavior 2.4. Accessing Components 2.5. Finding Objects 2.6. Using Coroutines 2.7. Singletons 2.8. Loading a Level (Scene) 2.9. Storing Data on Disk 2.10. Saving and Loading the Game State 2.11. Managing Objects Using an Object Pool 2.12. Storing Data in Assets Using ScriptableObject

3. Input

3.1. Working with Keyboard Input 3.2. Working with Mouse Input 3.3. Locking and Hiding the Mouse Cursor 3.4. Working with Gamepads 3.5. Customizing Unity’s Input System 3.6. Responding to Pointer Events from the Event System

4. Math

4.1. Storing Coordinates of Varying Dimensions Using Vectors 4.2. Rotating in 3D Space 4.3. Performing Transformations in 3D Space with Matrices 4.4. Working with Angles 4.5. Finding the Distance to a Target 4.6. Finding the Angle to a Target

5. 2D Graphics

5.1. Importing Sprites 5.2. Adding a Sprite to the Scene 5.3. Creating a Sprite Animation 5.4. Creating a Sprite with 2D Physics 5.5. Customizing Sprite Collision Shapes 5.6. Using a Composite Collider 5.7. Using the Sprite Packer 5.8. Applying Forces to 2D Objects 5.9. Creating a Conveyor Belt 5.10. Using a Custom Material for Sprites 5.11. Managing Sprite Sorting 5.12. Using Sorting Groups 5.13. Creating a 2.5D Scene

6. 3D Graphics

6.1. Creating a Simple Material 6.2. Controlling a Material’s Property Through a Script 6.3. Creating an Unlit Material 6.4. Setting Up a Material Using Textures 6.5. Making a Material Use a Shader 6.6. Setting Up a Bloom Effect Using Post-Processing 6.7. Using High-Dynamic-Range Colors 6.8. Setting Up a Project to Use a Scriptable Render Pipeline 6.9. Creating a Shader Using the Shader Graph 6.10. Creating a Glowing Effect Using the Shader Graph 6.11. Exposing Properties from a Shader Graph 6.12. Animating a Shader over Time 6.13. Controlling the Speed of an Animated Shader 6.14. Using a Subgraph to Reuse Graph Components 6.15. Implementing a Dissolve Effect Using a Shader Graph 6.16. Using Baked Lighting and Real-Time Lighting 6.17. Using Baked Emission Sources 6.18. Making Static Objects Cast Shadows on Dynamic Objects 6.19. Using Light Probes to Influence Lighting 6.20. Using Reflection Probes 6.21. Faking a Dynamic Emissive Object 6.22. Loading Textures from Disk 6.23. Rendering to a Texture 6.24. Saving Screenshots

7. Physics and Character Control

7.1. Understanding FixedUpdate 7.2. Implementing Mouselook 7.3. Controlling a 3D Character 7.4. Interacting with Switches and Objects 7.5. Picking Up and Putting Down Objects 7.6. Detecting When an Object Is Touching Another Object 7.7. Detecting When an Object Is in a Trigger Area 7.8. Implementing Moving Platforms 7.9. Implementing Platform Riding 7.10. Responding to Being Pushed by Objects

8. Animation and Movement

8.1. Animating an Object 8.2. Basic Character Movement 8.3. Inverse Kinematics 8.4. Masked Movement 8.5. Blended Movement 8.6. Navigation and Animating in Sync 8.7. Cinematic Camera Tracking 8.8. Automatically Switching Cameras 8.9. Keeping Multiple Objects in View 8.10. Dollying a Camera

9. Gameplay

9.1. Managing Quests 9.2. Managing Hitpoints 9.3. Creating a Top-Down Camera 9.4. Dragging a Box to Select Objects 9.5. Creating a Menu Structure 9.6. Creating a Wheeled Vehicle 9.7. Keeping a Car from Tipping Over 9.8. Creating Speed Boosts 9.9. Creating a Camera That Orbits Around Its Target 9.10. Creating Orbiting Cameras That Won’t Clip Through Walls 9.11. Detecting When the Player Has Completed a Lap

10. Behavior and AI

11. Sound and Music

11.1. Playing Sounds 11.2. Setting Up a Mixer 11.3. Using Audio Effects 11.4. Using Send and Receive Effects 11.5. Ducking 11.6. Using Multiple Audio Zones 11.7. Playing Audio Through Code 11.8. Using a Sound Manager

12. User Interface

12.1. Working with UI Controls 12.2. Theming Controls 12.3. Animating the UI 12.4. Creating a List of Items 12.5. Fading Out List Items 12.6. Creating Onscreen Position Indicators 12.7. Custom Editors 12.8. Property Drawers 12.9. Attribute Drawers 12.10. Asset Processing 12.11. Scripted Importers 12.12. Wizards

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