Unity 5.x Cookbook

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Unity 5.x Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Core UI – Messages Menus Scores and Timers

Introduction

Displaying a "Hello World" UI text message

Displaying a digital clock

Displaying a digital countdown timer

Creating a message that fades away

Displaying a perspective 3D text message

Displaying an image

Creating UI Buttons to move between scenes

Organizing images inside panels and changing panel depths via buttons

Displaying the value of an interactive UI Slider

Displaying a countdown timer graphically with a UI Slider

Displaying a radar to indicate the relative locations of objects

Creating UIs with the Fungus open-source dialog system

Setting custom mouse cursor images

Input Fields component for text entry

Toggles and radio buttons via Toggle Groups

Conclusion

Chapter 2. Inventory GUIs

Introduction

Creating a simple 2D mini-game – SpaceGirl

Displaying single object pickups with carrying and not-carrying text

Displaying single object pickups with carrying and not-carrying icons

Displaying multiple pickups of the same object with text totals

Displaying multiple pickups of the same object with multiple status icons

Revealing icons for multiple object pickups by changing the size of a tiled image

Displaying multiple pickups of different objects as a list of text via a dynamic List<> of PickUp objects

Displaying multiple pickups of different objects as text totals via a dynamic Dictionary<> of PickUp objects and "enum" pickup types

Generalizing multiple icon displays using UI Grid Layout Groups (with scrollbars!)

Conclusion

Chapter 3. 2D Animation

Introduction

Flipping a sprite horizontally

Animating body parts for character movement events

Creating a 3-frame animation clip to make a platform continually animate

Making a platform start falling once stepped-on using a Trigger to move animation from one state to another

Creating animation clips from sprite sheet sequences

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Creating Maps and Materials

Introduction

Creating a basic material with Standard Shader (Specular setup)

Adapting a basic material from Specular setup to Metallic

Applying Normal maps to a material

Adding Transparency and Emission maps to a material

Highlighting materials at mouse over

Adding Detail maps to a material

Fading the transparency of a material

Playing videos inside a scene

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Using Cameras

Introduction

Creating a picture-in-picture effect

Switching between multiple cameras

Making textures from screen content

Zooming a telescopic camera

Displaying a mini-map

Creating an in-game surveillance camera

Chapter 6. Lights and Effects

Introduction

Using lights and cookie textures to simulate a cloudy day

Adding a custom Reflection map to a scene

Creating a laser aim with Projector and Line Renderer

Reflecting surrounding objects with Reflection Probes

Setting up an environment with Procedural Skybox and Directional Light

Lighting a simple scene with Lightmaps and Light Probes

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Controlling 3D Animations

Introduction

Configuring a character's Avatar and idle animation

Moving your character with root motion and Blend Trees

Mixing animations with Layers and Masks

Organizing States into Sub-state Machines

Transforming the Character Controller via script

Adding rigid props to animated characters

Using Animation Events to throw an object

Applying Ragdoll physics to a character

Rotating the character's torso to aim a weapon

Chapter 8. Positions Movement and Navigation for Character GameObjects

Introduction

Player control of a 2D GameObject (and limiting the movement within a rectangle)

Player control of a 3D GameObject (and limiting the movement within a rectangle)

Choosing destinations – find the nearest (or a random) spawn point

Choosing destinations – respawn to the most recently passed checkpoint

NPC NavMeshAgent to seek or flee destination while avoiding obstacles