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Unity 2018 Cookbook

You're reading from Unity 2018 Cookbook Over 160 recipes to take your 2D and 3D game development to the next level

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788471909

Length 794 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Francisco Queiroz

Matt Smith

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements FREE CHAPTER

2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs

3. Inventory UIs

4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds

5. Creating Textures, Maps, and Materials

6. Shader Graphs and Video Players

7. Using Cameras

8. Lights and Effects

9. 2D Animation

10. 3D Animation

11. Webserver Communication and Online Version-Control

12. Controlling and Choosing Positions

13. Navigation Meshes and Agents

14. Design Patterns

15. Editor Extensions and Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI)

16. Working with External Resource Files and Devices

17. Working with Plain Text, XML, and JSON Text Files

18. Virtual Reality and Extra Features

19. Automated Testing

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Index

Unity game communication with web-server leaderboard

In this recipe, we create a Unity game Client that can communicate, via UI buttons, with our web server leaderboard from the previous recipe:

Getting ready

Since the scene contains several UI elements and the code of the recipe is the communication with the PHP scripts and SQL database, in the 12_02 folder, we have provided a Unity package called UnityLeaderboardClient, containing a scene with everything set up for the Unity project.

How to do it...

To create a Unity game that communicates with the web-server leaderboard, do the following:

Import the provided Unity package, UnityLeaderboardClient.
Run the provided Scene.
Ensure your PHP leaderboard is up and running.

If you are not running locally (localhost:8000), you'll need to update the URL by selecting the Main Camera in the Hierarchy, and then editing the Leader Board URL text for the Web Leaderboard (Script) component in the Inspector:

Click on the UIButtons to make Unity communicate with...

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Authors (2)

Matt Smith

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is computing academic at TUDublin (Technological University of Dublin) Ireland, where he leads the DRIVE Research Group (Digital Realities, Interaction, and Virtual Environments). Matt started computer programming on a brand new ZX80 and submitted 2 games for his computing O-level exam. After nearly 10 years as a full-time student on a succession of scholarships, he gained several degrees in computing, including a Ph.D. in computational musicology. In 1985, Matt wrote the lyrics and was in the band whose music appeared on the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open-source Unity Fungus visual scripting and dialogue system.

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