Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development: Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedicated
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1 – Our First Level
Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch
	Game concept
		Game idea
		Input controls
		Winning and losing
	Game characters
		Hero
		Enemies
	Gameplay
		Game-world layout
		Starting condition
		Ending condition
		Point system
		HUD
	The difficulty balance
		Difficulty balance questions
		Implementation plan
	Documentation
		Game Design Document (GDD)
		GDD formats
		GDD creation tools
		Elevator pitch
		High concept
		Tips for creating GDDs
	Summary
Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity
	Why use a game engine such as Unity?
		Past and present industry insight
		Game engines
		Benefits of using Unity
	Installing Unity
		Unity Technical Requirements
		Unity installs
		Installing Unity with Unity Hub
	Creating projects
		Creating a project
		Project structure
	Summary
Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects
	Manipulating scenes
		The purpose of a scene
		The Scene View
		Creating our first GameObject
		Navigating the Scene View
		Manipulating GameObjects
	GameObjects and components
		Understanding components
		Manipulating components
	Object hierarchies
		Parenting objects
		Possible uses
	Prefabs
		Creating Prefabs
		Prefab-instance relationship
		Prefab variants
	Saving scenes and projects
		Saving our changes
		Project structure
	Summary
Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder
	Creating a Landscape with Terrain
		Discussing Height Maps
		Creating and configuring Height Maps
		Authoring Height Maps
		Adding Height Map details
	Creating Shapes with ProBuilder
		Installing ProBuilder
		Creating a Shape
		Manipulating the mesh
		Adding details
	Summary
Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets
	Importing assets
		Importing assets from the internet
		Importing assets from the Asset Store
	Integrating assets
		Integrating terrain textures
		Integrating meshes
		Integrating textures
	Configuring assets
		Configuring meshes
		Configuring textures
		Assembling the scene
	Summary
Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound
Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph
	Introducing shaders
		Shader pipeline
		The Render Pipeline and URP
		URP's Built-in Shaders
	Creating Shaders with Shader Graph
		Creating our first Shader Graph
		Using textures
		Combining Textures
		Applying transparency
		Creating Vertex Effects
	Summary
Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph
	Introduction to particle systems
		Creating a basic particle system
		Using advanced modules
	Creating fluid simulations
		Creating a waterfall effect
		Creating a bonfire effect
	Creating complex simulations with Visual Effect Graph
		Installing Visual Effect Graph
		Creating and analyzing a Visual Effect Graph
		Creating a rain effect
	Summary
Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline
	Applying lighting
		Discussing lighting methods
		Configuring ambient lighting with skyboxes
		Configuring lighting in URP
	Applying shadows
		Understanding shadow calculations
		Configuring performant shadows
	Optimizing lighting
		Understanding static lighting
		Baking lightmaps
		Applying static lighting to static objects
	Summary
Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing
	Using PostProcessing
		Setting up a profile
		Using basic effects
	Using advanced effects
		Advanced effects
	Summary
Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration
	Importing audio
		Audio types
		Configuring the import settings
	Integrating and mixing audio
		Using 2D and 3D AudioSources
		Using an Audio Mixer
	Summary
Chapter 11: User Interface Design
	Understanding Canvas and RectTransform
		Creating a UI with Canvas
		Positioning elements with RectTransform
	Canvas object types
		Integrating assets for the UI
		Creating UI controls
	Creating a responsive UI
		Adapting object positions
		Adapting object sizes
	Summary
Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit
	Why learn UI Toolkit?
	Creating UIs with UI Toolkit
		Installing UI Toolkit
		Creating UI Documents
		Editing UI Documents
		Creating UI Stylesheets
	Making a Responsive UI with UI Toolkit
		Dynamic positioning and sizing
		Dynamic Scaling
		Using relative positions
	Summary
Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline
	Using Skinning Animations with Animator
		Understanding skinning
		Importing skeletal animations
		Integration using Animation Controllers
	Creating dynamic cameras with Cinemachine
		Creating camera behaviors
		Creating dolly tracks
	Creating cutscenes with Timeline
		Creating animation clips
		Sequencing our intro cutscene
	Summary
Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#
Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting
	Creating Scripts
		Initial setup
		Creating a C# Script
		Adding fields
		Creating a Visual Script
	Using events and instructions
		Events and instructions in C#
		Events and instructions in Visual Scripting
		Using fields in instructions
		Common beginner C# script errors
	Summary
Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning
	Implementing movement
		Moving objects through Transform
		Using Input
		Understanding Delta Time
	Implementing spawning
		Spawning Objects
		Timing actions
		Destroying Objects
	Summary
Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System
	Configuring Physics
		Setting shapes
		Physics Object types
		Filtering collisions
	Detecting collisions
		Detecting Trigger events
		Modifying the other Object
	Moving with Physics
		Applying forces
		Tweaking Physics
	Summary
Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition
	Creating Object Managers
		Sharing Variables with the Singleton design pattern
		Sharing Variables with Visual Scripting
		Creating Managers
	Creating Game Modes
	Improving our code with events
	Summary
Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics
	Scripting the UI
		Showing information in the UI
		Programming the Pause menu
	Scripting feedback
		Scripting visual feedback
		Scripting audio feedback
		Scripting animations
	Summary
Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies
	Gathering information with sensors
		Creating Three-Filters sensors with C#
		Creating Three-Filters sensors with Visual Scripting
		Debugging with Gizmos
	Making decisions with FSMs
		Creating the FSM in C#
		Creating transitions
		Creating the FSM in Visual Scripting
	Executing FSM actions
		Calculating our scene's Pathfinding
		Using pathfinding
	Adding the final details
	Summary
Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization
	Optimizing graphics
		Introduction to graphic engines
		Using the Frame Debugger
		Using batching
		Other optimizations
	Optimizing processing
		Detecting CPU- and GPU-bound
		Using the CPU Usage Profiler
		General CPU optimization techniques
	Optimizing memory
		Memory allocation and the garbage collector
		Using the Memory Profiler
	Summary
Section 4 – Releasing Your Game
Chapter 21: Building the Project
	Building a project
	Debugging the Build
		Debugging Code
		Profiling performance
	Summary
Chapter 22: Finishing Touches
	Iterating your game
		Testing and feedback
		Interpreting feedback
	Releasing your game
		Pre-release
		Release
		Post-release
	Summary
Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity
	Using AR Foundation
		Creating an AR Foundation project
		Using tracking features
	Building for mobile devices
		Building for Android
		Building for iOS
	Creating a simple AR game
		Spawning the Player and Enemies
		Coding the Player and Enemy behavior
	Summary
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