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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

Manipulating scenes

A scene is one of the several types of files (also known as assets) in our project. Other types of files include scripts for code, audio files, 3D models, and textures, among others. A "scene" can be used for different things according to the type of project, but the most common use case is to separate your game into whole sections, the most common ones being the following:

  • The main menu
  • Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, etc.
  • A victory screen and a lose screen
  • A splash screen and a loading screen

In this section, we will cover the following concepts related to scenes:

  • The purpose of a scene
  • The Scene view
  • Adding our first GameObject to a scene
  • Navigating the Scene view
  • Manipulating GameObjects

So, let's take a look at each of these concepts.

The purpose of a scene

The idea of separating your game into scenes is so that Unity can process and load just the data needed for the scene. Let's say you are in the main menu; in such a case, you will have only...

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