Unity 2021 Cookbook Over 160 Recipes To Take Your Unity Game Development Skills To The Next Level 4th Edition Matt Smith Shaun Ferns by Matt Smith; Shaun Ferns 9781839217616, 1839217618 instant download after payment.

Unity is the most widely used game development platform worldwide. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Unity is a powerful and easy-to-use one-stop solution for creating games for mobile, web, desktop and games consoles.
This fourth edition of the Unity Cookbook series is updated with the latest features of Unity 2021 and modern game development practices, and will help you address common hurdles faced by Unity game developers. The cookbook helps you work through a wide variety of recipes relating to the essential features of the Unity game engine. You will get to grips with shaders and Shader Graph, before exploring animation features to enhance your skills in building games. As you progress, you will gain insights into Unity's latest editor which will help you in laying out scenes, tweaking existing apps, and building custom tools for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences. The book also guides you through many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques, teaching you how to communicate with database-driven websites and process XML and JSON data files.
By the end of this Unity book, you will have gained a comprehensive understanding of Unity game development and built your development skills.
What you will learn
* Discover how to add core game features to your projects with C# scripting
* Create powerful and stylish user interfaces with Unity’s UI system, including power bars, radars, and button-driven scene changes
* Work with essential audio features, including background music and sound effects
* Discover Cinemachine and Timeline in Unity to intelligently control camera movements
* Add visual effects such as smoke and explosions by creating and customizing particle systems
* Understand how to build your own shaders with the Shader Graph tool
Who This Book Is For
This book is for existing Unity developers who want to explore a wide range of Unity scripting and multimedia features using ready-to-use recipes in the Unity engine. Programmers looking to explore multimedia features will also find this book useful. Beginner-level knowledge of Unity and C# programming is required before getting started with this Unity engine book.