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Build Your Own Metaverse with Unity

You're reading from  Build Your Own Metaverse with Unity

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631735
Pages 586 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
David Cantón Nadales David Cantón Nadales
Profile icon David Cantón Nadales

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Unity and Firebase 3. Chapter 2: Preparing Our Player 4. Chapter 3: Preparing Our Home Sweet Home: Part 1 5. Chapter 4: Preparing Our Home Sweet Home: Part 2 6. Chapter 5: Preparing a New World for Travel 7. Part 2: And Now, Make It Metaverse!
8. Chapter 6: Adding a Registration and Login Form for Our Users 9. Chapter 7: Building an NPC That Allows Us to Travel 10. Chapter 8: Acquiring a House 11. Chapter 9: Turning Our World into a Multiplayer Room 12. Chapter 10: Adding Text and a Voice Chat to the Room 13. Part 3: Adding Fun Features Before Compiling
14. Chapter 11: Creating an NPC That Allows Us to Change Our Appearance 15. Chapter 12: Streaming Video Like a Cinema 16. Chapter 13: Adding Compatibility for the Meta Quest 2 17. Chapter 14: Distributing 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Throughout this exciting chapter, we learned how to create a new NPC for our virtual world. This time, our NPC offers new functionality to your metaverse, allowing users to choose an alternative avatar. We have learned about a new UI component called Grid Layout Grid, which allows for the row and column layout of a multitude of child components and offers scrolling for easy navigation.

We also learned how to replace one Prefab with another, being now able to customize a character at runtime through code. To save the user’s choice, we learned about the PlayerPrefs class, a fast and efficient way to save simple information in the user’s session.

In the next chapter, we will deal with a very interesting functionality: we will create screens that allow you to play streaming videos in your scene, and you will be able to play videos hosted on a server or hosting. This is very interesting if you want to make, for example, a cinema-type scene, advertising videos...

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