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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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Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs
3
Inventory and Advanced UIs
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2D Animation and Physics
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Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More
15
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)

Ordering items in the inventory list alphabetically

It would be nice to alphabetically sort the words in the inventory list, both for neatness and consistency (so that, in a game, if we pick up a key and a heart, it will look the same, regardless of the order they are picked up in), but also so that items of the same type will be listed together so that we can easily see how many of each item we are carrying.

To implement alphabetical sorting for the items in the inventory list, we need to do the following:

  1. Add the following C# code to the beginning of the OnChangeInventory(...) method in the PlayerInventoryDisplay script class:
public void OnChangeInventory(List<PickUp> inventory){ 
    inventory.Sort( 
        delegate(PickUp p1, PickUp p2){ 
           return p1.description.CompareTo(p2.description); 
        } 
    ); 

   // rest of the method as before ... 
} 
  1. You should now see all the items listed in alphabetical order.
This C# code takes advantage...
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