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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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Applying shadows

Maybe you are thinking that we already have shadows in the scene, but actually, we don’t. The darker areas of the object, the ones that are not facing the lights, don’t have shadows—they are not being lit, and that’s quite different from a shadow. In this case, we are referring to the shadows that are projected from one object to another—for example, the shadow of the player being projected on the floor, or from the mountains to other objects. Shadows can increase the quality of our scene, but they also cost a lot to calculate, so we have two options: not using shadows (recommended for low-end devices such as mobiles) or finding a balance between performance and quality according to our game and the target device.

In this section, we are going to discuss the following topics about shadows:

  • Understanding shadow calculations
  • Configuring performant shadows

Let’s start by discussing how Unity calculates...

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