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Published in Jan 2024

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ISBN-13 9781835085714

Length 742 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Game Scripting

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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Unity FREE CHAPTER

2. Embark on Your Unity Journey

3. Crafting Scenes and Game Elements

4. From Blueprint to Reality: Building with Terrain and ProBuilder

5. Seamless Integration: Importing and Integrating Assets

6. Section 2: Mastering Programming and Gameplay Mechanics

7. Unleashing the Power of C# and Visual Scripting

8. Dynamic Motion: Implementing Movement and Spawning

9. Collisions and Health: Detecting Collisions Accurately

10. Victory or Defeat: Win and Lose Conditions

11. Starting Your AI Journey: Building Intelligent Enemies for Your Game

12. Section 3: Elevating Visuals, Effects, and Audio

13. Material Alchemy: Using URP and Shader Graph for Stunning Visuals

14. Captivating Visual Effects: Harnessing Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph

15. Enlightening Worlds: Illuminating Scenes with the Universal Render Pipeline

16. Immersive Realism: Achieving Fullscreen Effects with Post-Processing

17. Harmonious Soundscapes: Integrating Audio and Music

18. Section 4: Designing User Interfaces, Animations and Advanced Concepts

19. Interface Brilliance: Designing User-Friendly UI

20. Next-Gen UI: Creating Dynamic Interfaces with UI Toolkit

21. Animated Realities: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline

22. Performance Wizardry: Optimizing Your Game with Profiler Tools

23. From Prototype to Executable: Generating and Debugging Your Game

24. AR/VR

25. Massive Worlds: Introduction to DOTS

26. Other Books You May Enjoy

27. Index

Next-Gen UI: Creating Dynamic Interfaces with UI Toolkit

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to create user interfaces using uGUI (also known as Canvas), one of the most common Unity UI systems, but as we already mentioned, this is not the only one. While, so far, uGUI has been the most preferred option, Unity is working on a replacement called UI Toolkit, and even if it doesn’t have feature parity with uGUI yet, we thought it is worth covering it in this book.

The idea of this chapter is to create the same UI we created previously but with UI Toolkit, so you can get an idea of how creating a UI in Unity will look soon.

In this chapter, we will examine the following UI concepts:

Why learn how to use UI Toolkit?
Creating a UI with UI Toolkit
Making a responsive UI with UI Toolkit

By the end of the chapter, you will learn how to use UI Toolkit to create basic UIs for our game, redoing the UI we did in the last chapter as a point of...

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