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Augmented Reality Game Development

You're reading from Augmented Reality Game Development Create your own augmented reality games from scratch with Unity 5

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787122888

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Author (1):

Micheal Lanham

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Augmented Reality Game Development

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Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Mapping the Player's Location

3. Making the Avatar

4. Spawning the Catch

5. Catching the Prey in AR

6. Storing the Catch

7. Creating the AR World

8. Interacting with an AR World

9. Finishing the Game

10. Troubleshooting

Console window

The Console window should be your starting place whenever you encounter an issue. It can be accessed from the menu by selecting Window | Console, which will open the Console window that you can dock within the editor as you see fit. Depending on your preference and experience, you may want to always have the Console visible. Either way, as soon as something goes wrong, it certainly should be the first place you check.

Let's take a quick tour of the Console window in some detail, as it will be central to several other elements in this chapter:

Be sure to have the Unity editor open. If the Console window is not open, then open it from the menu by selecting Window | Console.
Take a look at the window and familiarize yourself with the buttons and context menu. The following is a screenshot of the Console window with the typical configuration:

The Console window with typical configuration

How about we take a look at what each of the buttons do and some helpful hints you may not find...

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Authors (1)

Micheal Lanham

Micheal Lanham

Micheal Lanham is a proven software and tech innovator with 20 years of experience. During that time, he has developed a broad range of software applications in areas such as games, graphics, web, desktop, engineering, artificial intelligence, GIS, and machine learning applications for a variety of industries as an R&D developer. At the turn of the millennium, Micheal began working with neural networks and evolutionary algorithms in game development. He was later introduced to Unity and has been an avid developer, consultant, manager, and author of multiple Unity games, graphic projects, and books ever since.

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