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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development
Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development

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

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  • Unleash the capabilities of C# scripting to create UIs, graphics, game AI agents and more
  • Explore Unity's latest tools, including Universal Render Pipeline, Shader Graph, UI Toolkit, Visual Scripting, and VFX graph, to enhance graphics and animation
  • Build an AR experience using Unity’s AR Foundation

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Learning how to use Unity is the quickest way to creating a full game, but that’s not all you can do with this simple, yet comprehensive suite of video game development tools – Unity is just as useful for creating AR/VR experiences, complex simulations, real-time realistic rendering, films, and practical games for training and education. Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development outlines a practical journey to creating your first full game from the ground up, building it step-by-step and applying your knowledge as you progress. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you how to develop the game using several Unity tools. As you advance, you will learn how to use the Unity engine, create simple scripts using C#, integrate graphics, sound, and animations, and manipulate physics to create interesting mechanics for your game. You’ll be able to apply all the knowledge that you gain to a real-world game. Later chapters will show you how to code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and use profiling tools to ensure that the code runs efficiently. Finally, you'll work with Unity's AR tools to create AR experiences for 3D apps and games. By the end of this Unity book, you will have created a complete game and built a solid foundation in using a wide variety of Unity tools.

Who is this book for?

This book is best suited for game developers looking to upgrade their knowledge and those who want to migrate their existing skills to the Unity game engine. Those with prior Unity knowledge will also benefit from the chapters exploring the latest features. While you’ll still able to follow along if you don’t have any programming experience, knowing the fundamentals of C# programming will help you get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Explore both C# and Visual Scripting tools to customize various aspects of a game, such as physics, gameplay, and the UI
  • Program rich shaders and effects using Unity s new Shader Graph and Universal Render Pipeline
  • Implement postprocessing to improve graphics quality with full-screen effects
  • Create rich particle systems for your Unity games from scratch using VFX Graph and Shuriken
  • Add animations to your game using the Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline
  • Use the brand new UI Toolkit package to create user interfaces
  • Implement game AI to control character behavior

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Fabian Sep 30, 2021
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I totally recommend this book, it's easy to follow, practical and deeply focused on results.
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José Martínez Nov 26, 2021
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I've had a blast reading this book. It has an incredible amount of information and useful screens and tutorials so you can understand every concept and mechanism in Unity. It's great if you are doing your first steps in game design, but it's also very good if you have experience but you are not deeply familiar with the engine.I'm doing my first jrpg thanks to this book and, believe me, if I can do it, you can.
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GM Apr 03, 2022
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Buy this book; it’s a fantastic reference for refining a prototype. Its biggest flaw is it’s a bit ambitious for an absolute beginner. There are enough changes to Unity outside the control of the author that it could lead to some rage quitting once you hit some of these unforeseen snags (normal maps set to -1 on the some of the downloaded assets almost did me in during the lighting chapter). If you are new to Unity you might want to make this the 2nd book to read and instead pick up one of the numerous books that has you create a capsule running around on a plane shooting projectiles at enemy capsules. You’ll finish that book and wonder what to do with that plane and those capsules and the Unity version or downloaded assets won’t be an issue. That’s where this book comes in; methodically replacing those primitives with more refined game components. Although each chapter isn’t able to go super deep, it provides enough breadcrumbs and context to be able to focus on areas that captivate your interest. It’s really easy to put this book down for a week at a time and just play with animations or lighting or building terrain and then just pick it up and focus on the next piece of the puzzle. Highly recommended.
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DOPPLEGANGER Jan 02, 2022
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I have to assume this is a good book as it was for my grandson and he seems to like it. I looked at a few pages as it was as clear as a mud wrestler’s jock strap! Oh to be young and intelligent! I wish.
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Guillermo Nov 26, 2021
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The book is very detailed building a good base of concepts accompanied by a good illustration and screenshots that if we add the step-by-step explanation makes it accessible and clear for both beginners and more experienced users.I also want to highlight the tour of the latest featured Unity tools, from Visual Scripting, Probuilder among others.Clearly this book is a high recommendation for all those who want to have an excellent base in video game development.
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