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Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

By : Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

4.7 (22)
By: Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Overview of this book

Unity is a cross-platform game engine that provides you with powerful but simple-to-use features to solve the most common problems in Game Development, such as rendering, animation, physics, sound, and effects. You’ll learn to use these features to create simple but complete games (and all the nuances needed to handle Unity). Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this book will teach you to use the Unity game engine, create C# and visual scripts, integrate graphics, sound, and animations, and manipulate physics to create interesting mechanics for your game. You’ll then code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and work with profiling tools to ensure code efficiency. Finally, you'll work with Unity's AR tools to create AR experiences for 3D apps and games before publishing them to the world. If you are interested in creating impressive, commercial-quality games that are playable on a variety of platforms, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Creating a Unity Project
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Creating complex simulations with Visual Effect Graph

The particle system we have used so far is called Shuriken, and it handles all calculations in the CPU. This has both pros and cons. A pro is that it can run on all possible devices that Unity supports, regardless of their capabilities (all of them have CPUs), but a con is that we can exceed CPU capabilities easily if we are not cautious with the number of particles we emit. Modern games require more complex particle systems to generate believable effects, and this kind of CPU-based particle system solution has started to reach its limit. This is where the Visual Effect Graph comes in:

Figure 11.33: On the left, a massive particle system, and on the right, an example of a Visual Effect Graph

Visual Effect Graph is a GPU-based particle system solution, meaning that the system is executed in the video card instead of the CPU. That’s because video cards are far more efficient at executing lots and lots of little...

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