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Hands-On Unity  Game Development - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835085714
Pages 742 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Unity
2. Embark on Your Unity Journey 3. Crafting Scenes and Game Elements 4. From Blueprint to Reality: Building with Terrain and ProBuilder 5. Seamless Integration: Importing and Integrating Assets 6. Section 2: Mastering Programming and Gameplay Mechanics
7. Unleashing the Power of C# and Visual Scripting 8. Dynamic Motion: Implementing Movement and Spawning 9. Collisions and Health: Detecting Collisions Accurately 10. Victory or Defeat: Win and Lose Conditions 11. Starting Your AI Journey: Building Intelligent Enemies for Your Game 12. Section 3: Elevating Visuals, Effects, and Audio
13. Material Alchemy: Using URP and Shader Graph for Stunning Visuals 14. Captivating Visual Effects: Harnessing Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 15. Enlightening Worlds: Illuminating Scenes with the Universal Render Pipeline 16. Immersive Realism: Achieving Fullscreen Effects with Post-Processing 17. Harmonious Soundscapes: Integrating Audio and Music 18. Section 4: Designing User Interfaces, Animations and Advanced Concepts
19. Interface Brilliance: Designing User-Friendly UI 20. Next-Gen UI: Creating Dynamic Interfaces with UI Toolkit 21. Animated Realities: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 22. Performance Wizardry: Optimizing Your Game with Profiler Tools 23. From Prototype to Executable: Generating and Debugging Your Game 24. AR/VR 25. Massive Worlds: Introduction to DOTS 26. Other Books You May Enjoy
27. Index

Summary

Optimizing a game is not an easy task, especially if you are not familiar with the internals of how each Unity system works. Sadly, this is a titanic task, and no one knows every single system down to its finest details, but with the tools learned about in this chapter, we have a way to explore how changes affect systems through exploration. We learned how to profile the CPU, GPU, and RAM and what the key hardware in any game is. We also covered some common good practices to avoid abusing them.

Now, you can diagnose performance issues in your game, gathering data about the performance of the three main pieces of hardware—the CPU, GPU, and RAM—and then using that data to focus your optimization efforts on applying the correct optimization technique. Performance is important as your game needs to run smoothly to give your users a pleasant experience.

In the next chapter, we are going to see how to create a build of our game to share with other people, without...

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