Game Development with Unity for
 .NET Developers

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Basic Concepts of Unity and Script Programming in Unity
Chapter 1: Hello Unity
	Technical requirements
	Getting started with the Unity Editor
		Choosing the right Unity release for you
		Choosing the right subscription plan for you
		Downloading and installing the Unity Editor
		Exploring the Unity Editor
	Working with different features in Unity
		What is a game engine?
		Features in Unity
	.NET/C# and scripting in Unity
		.NET profiles in Unity
		Scripting backends in Unity
	Building Unity games with Visual Studio
	Summary
Chapter 2: Scripting Concepts in Unity
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the concepts of scripting in Unity
		GameObject-components architecture
		Common classes in Unity
		Prefabs in Unity
		Special folders in Unity
	The life cycle of a script instance
		Initialization
		Update
		Rendering
	Creating a script and using it as a component
		How to create a new script in Unity
		Adding a script as a component to a GameObject in the Scene
		Accessing a component attached to a GameObject
	Packages and the Unity Package Manager
		Unity Package Manager
		Package
	Summary
Part 2: Using C# Scripts to Work with Unity's Built-In Modules
Chapter 3: Developing UI with the Unity UI System
	C# scripts and common UI components in Unity
		Canvas
		Image
		Text
		Selectable UI components
	C# scripts and the UI Event System in Unity
		Input Modules
		The new Input System package
	The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and the UI
	Performance tips to increase performance of the UI
		The Unity Profiler
		Multiple canvases
		Use Sprite Atlas
	Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Animations with the Unity Animation System
	Technical requirements
	Exploring the Unity animation system's concepts
		Animation Clips
		Animator Controller
		Avatar
		Animator component
	Implementing 3D animation in Unity
		Importing animation assets
		Configuring the Animator Controller
	Implementing 2D animation in Unity
	Improving the performance of Unity's animation system
		The Unity Profiler
		Animator's Culling Mode
		Anim. Compression
	Summary
Chapter 5: Working with the Unity Physics System
	Technical requirements
	Concepts in the Unity Physics system
		Collider
		Rigidbody
		Trigger
	Scripting with the Physics system
		Collision methods
		Trigger methods
		Methods of Rigidbody
	Creating a simple game based on the Physics system
	Increasing the performance of the Physics system
		The Unity Profiler
		Increasing the fixed timestep
		Reducing unnecessary layer-based collision detections
	Summary
Chapter 6: Integrating Audio and Video in a Unity Project
	Technical requirements
	Concepts in Unity's audio system and video system
		Audio clips
		Audio Sources
		Audio Listener
		Video clips
		Video Player
	Scripting with audio and video
		AudioSource.Play
		AudioSource.Pause
		AudioSource.Stop
		VideoPlayer.clip
		VideoPlayer.url
		VideoPlayer.Play
		VideoPlayer.frame and VideoPlayer.frameCount
	Things to note when using Unity to develop web applications
		URL
		Frame rate
	Increasing the performance of the audio system
		The Unity Profiler
		Using Force To Mono to save memory
	Summary
Part 3: Advanced Script Programming in Unity
Chapter 7: Understanding the Mathematics of Computer Graphics in Unity
	Getting started with coordinate systems
		Understanding left-handed and right-handed coordinate systems
		Local space
		World space
		Screen space
	Working with vectors
		Vector addition
		How to subtract vectors
		Dot product
		Cross product
	Working with the transformation matrix
		Translation matrix
		Rotation matrix
		Scaling matrix
	Working with quaternions
		Creating rotations
		Manipulating rotations
		Working with Euler angles
	Summary
Chapter 8: The Scriptable Render Pipeline in Unity
	An introduction to the Scriptable Render Pipeline
		The Fontainebleau Demo
		The Spaceship Demo
		The BoatAttack Demo
		The Heretic: Digital Human
		The Heretic: VFX Character
		Universal Render Pipeline
		The High Definition Render Pipeline
	Working with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline
		Exploring the sample scene
		The Universal Render Pipeline asset
		The Volume framework and post-processing
	The Universal Render Pipeline shaders and materials
		Commonly used shaders
		Upgrading project materials to Universal Render Pipeline materials
		Creating a shader and a shader graph
	Increasing performance of the Universal Render Pipeline
		The Frame Debugger
		The SRP Batcher
	Summary
Chapter 9: The Data-Oriented Technology Stack in Unity
	Technical requirements
	DOTS overview
		Object-oriented design pattern versus DOTS
		C# Job System
		ECS
		The Burst compiler
	Multithreading and the C# Job System in Unity
		Coroutines
		async/await
		Working with the C# Job System
	Working with ECS in Unity
	Using C# and the Burst compiler
	Summary
Chapter 10: Serialization System and Assets Management in Unity and Azure
	Technical requirements
	Serialization system in Unity
		What is Unity's serialization system?
	The assets workflow in Unity
		GUID and File ID
		Meta files
		The AssetPostprocessor class and the import pipeline
		The Library folder
	Introducing the special folders in Unity
		Resources folder
		StreamingAssets folder
	Azure Blob storage with Unity's Addressable Asset system
		Setting up an Azure Blob storage service
		Installing the Addressable Assets system package
		Building addressable content
		Deploying content to the Azure Cloud
		Loading addressable content from the Azure Cloud
	Summary
Chapter 11: Working with Microsoft Game Dev, Azure Cloud, PlayFab, and Unity
	Technical requirements  
	Introducing Microsoft Game Dev, Microsoft Azure Cloud, and Azure PlayFab
		Microsoft Game Dev
		Microsoft Azure Cloud
		Azure PlayFab
	Setting up Azure PlayFab for a Unity project
		Creating a new Azure PlayFab account
		Setting up a game studio and a game title in Azure PlayFab
		Setting up the Azure PlayFab SDK in the Unity project
	Signing up and logging in players using Azure PlayFab in Unity
		Signing up players in Azure PlayFab
		Logging in players in Azure PlayFab
	Implementing a leaderboard using Azure PlayFab in Unity
		Setting up a leaderboard in Azure PlayFab
		Updating the score of a player from Unity using the Azure PlayFab API
		Loading the leaderboard data from Azure PlayFab in Unity
	Summary
Index
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