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Unity 2021 Cookbook

Unity 2021 Cookbook

By : Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns
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Unity 2021 Cookbook

Unity 2021 Cookbook

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By: Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns

Overview of this book

If you are a Unity developer looking to explore the newest features of Unity 2021 and recipes for advanced challenges, then this fourth edition of Unity Cookbook is here to help you. With this cookbook, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that will help you use the essential features of the Unity game engine to their fullest potential. You familiarize yourself 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 will also guide 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. The easy-to-follow recipes will earn a permanent place on your bookshelf for reference and help you build better games that stay true to your vision.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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2
Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs
3
Inventory and Advanced UIs
6
2D Animation and Physics
13
Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More
15
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)
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Fixing obsolete code errors

At the time of writing, Unity 2021 had made some of the code in the WebXR Exporter package obsolete, causing errors after adding the package this may have been fixed with a more recent release of WebXR Exporter. The blog post at https://forum.unity.com/threads/xrdevice-ispresent-is-obsolete.1057556/ discusses this issue, and a solution can be found at https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/XR.XRDevice-isPresent.html. Basically, the XRDevice.isPresent expression is no longer valid in Unity. This can be resolved by following these two steps:

  1. Create a C# script file called XRDeviceUtility.cs in the Project window folder called WebXR | Scripts and ensure it contains the following code:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.XR;

namespace WebXR {
internal static class XRDeviceUtility {
public static bool isPresent...
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