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Augmented Reality Game Development

Augmented Reality Game Development

By : Micheal Lanham
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Augmented Reality Game Development

Augmented Reality Game Development

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By: Micheal Lanham

Overview of this book

The heyday of location-based augmented reality games is upon us. They have been around for a few years, but the release of Pokémon Go was a gamechanger that catalyzed the market and led to a massive surge in demand. Now is the time for novice and experienced developers alike to turn their good ideas into augmented reality (AR) mobile games and meet this demand! If you are keen to develop virtual reality games with the latest Unity 5 toolkit, then this is the book for you. The genre of location-based AR games introduces a new platform and technical challenges, but this book will help simplify those challenges and show how to maximize your game audience. This book will take you on a journey through building a location-based AR game that addresses the core technical concepts: GIS fundamentals, mobile device GPS, mapping, map textures in Unity, mobile device camera, camera textures in Unity, accessing location-based services, and other useful Unity tips. The technical material also discusses what is necessary for further development to create a multiplayer version of the game. At the end, you will be presented with troubleshooting techniques in case you get into trouble and need a little help.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Particle effects in games are like butter to a French chef: essential. They not only provide the pizzazz and special effects we all see in games but are often also subtly used as cues to player activity. For us, we will use particle effects for some pizzazz to enhance scenes and also provide some visual cues. We won't have time to go into the background of particle effects in this chapter, but they will be covered again in Chapter 8, Interacting with an AR World. Now, let's add some particle effects to our scene:

  1. Go back to the Unity editor and open the Assets/Elementals/Prefabs(Mobile)/Light folder in the Project window.

    Tip

    The Elementals asset is really well done, and you could even try not using the Mobile version by trying the prefabs in the Assets/Elementals/Prefabs folder.

  2. Select the Plane object in the Hierarchy window. If you don't see the Plane object, remember to expand the CatchScene object.
  3. Drag the Holy Blast prefab from the Project window onto the...

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