Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers: The ultimate guide to creating games with Unity and Microsoft Game Stack

Length: 584 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-05-27
ISBN-10: 1801078076
ISBN-13: 9781801078078
Sales Rank: #2561084 (See Top 100 Books)

Get up and running with Unity with the help of expert guidance for addressing the performance issues encountered in Unity development

Key Features

Discover solutions to common problems faced by .NET developers while creating games in Unity
Explore tips, tricks, best practices, and advanced Unity coding techniques for creating impressive games
Understand how to program with C# code using Unity’s built-in modules and add engaging effects

Book Description

Understand what makes Unity the world’s most widely used real-time 3D development platform and explore its powerful features for creating 3D and 2D games, as well as the Unity game engine and the Microsoft Game Dev, including the Microsoft Azure Cloud and Microsoft Azure PlayFab services, to create games.

You will start by getting acquainted with the Unity editor and the basic concepts of Unity script programming with C#. You’ll then learn how to use C# code to work with Unity’s built-in modules, such as UI, animation, physics, video, and audio, and understand how to develop a game with Unity and C#. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll cover advanced topics such as the math involved in computer graphics and how to create a custom render pipeline in Unity with the new Scriptable Render Pipeline, all while optimizing performance in Unity. Along the way, you’ll be introduced to Microsoft Game Dev, Azure services, and Azure PlayFab, and using the Unity3D PlayFab SDK to access the PlayFab API.

By the end of this Unity book, you’ll have become familiar with the Unity engine and be ready to develop your own games while also addressing the performance issues that you could encounter in the development process.

What you will learn

Get to grips with using the Unity Editor
Use C# scripts to work with Unity’s built-in modules such as UI, animation, physics, video, and audio
Create a custom render pipeline in Unity Engine with the latest Scriptable Render Pipeline
Write high-performance multithreaded code with the latest DOTS in Unity
Discover the Azure PlayFab Client library for C# in Unity
Understand how the asset management and serialization system within Unity really works
Explore some of the most commonly used profiler tools in Unity development

Who this book is for

The book is for developers with intermediate .NET and C# programming experience who are interested in learning game development with Unity. Basic experience in C# programming is assumed.

Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers
Foreword
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Download the example code files
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
    Share Your Thoughts
Part 1: Basic Unity Concepts
Chapter 1: Hello Unity
    Technical requirements
    Getting started with the Unity Editor 
        Choosing the right Unity release for you
        Choosing the right subscription plan for you
        Downloading and installing the Unity Editor
        Exploring the Unity Editor
    Working with different features in Unity
        What is a game engine?
        Features in Unity
    .NET/C# and scripting in Unity
        .NET profiles in Unity
        Scripting backends in Unity
    Building Unity games with Visual Studio
    Summary
Chapter 2: Scripting Concepts in Unity
    Technical requirements
    Understanding the concepts of scripting in Unity
        GameObject-components architecture
        Common classes in Unity
        Prefabs in Unity
        Special folders in Unity
    The life cycle of a script instance
        Initialization
        Update
        Rendering
    Creating a script and using it as a component
        How to create a new script in Unity
        Adding a script as a component to a GameObject in the Scene
        Accessing a component attached to a GameObject
    Packages and the Unity Package Manager
        Unity Package Manager
        Package
    Summary
Part 2: Using C# Scripts to Work with Unity's Built-In Modules
Chapter 3: Developing UI with the Unity UI System
    C# scripts and common UI components in Unity
        Canvas
        Image
        Text
        Selectable UI components
    C# scripts and the UI Event System in Unity
        Input Modules
        The new Input System package
    The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and the UI
    Performance tips to increase performance of the UI
        The Unity Profiler
        Multiple canvases
        Use Sprite Atlas
    Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Animations with the Unity Animation System
    Technical requirements
    Exploring the Unity animation system's concepts
        Animation Clips
        Animator Controller
        Avatar
        Animator component
    Implementing 3D animation in Unity
        Importing animation assets
        Configuring the Animator Controller
    Implementing 2D animation in Unity
    Improving the performance of Unity's animation system
        The Unity Profiler
        Animator's Culling Mode
        Anim. Compression
    Summary
Chapter 5: Working with the Unity Physics System
    Technical requirements
    Concepts in the Unity Physics system
        Collider
        Rigidbody
        Trigger
    Scripting with the Physics system
        Collision methods
        Trigger methods
        Methods of Rigidbody
    Creating a simple game based on the Physics system 
    Increasing the performance of the Physics system
        The Unity Profiler
        Increasing the fixed timestep
        Reducing unnecessary layer-based collision detections
    Summary
Chapter 6: Integrating Audio and Video in a Unity Project
    Technical requirements
    Concepts in Unity's audio system and video system
        Audio clips
        Audio Sources
        Audio Listener
        Video clips
        Video Player
    Scripting with audio and video
        AudioSource.Play
        AudioSource.Pause
        AudioSource.Stop
        VideoPlayer.clip
        VideoPlayer.url
        VideoPlayer.Play
        VideoPlayer.frame and VideoPlayer.frameCount
    Things to note when using Unity to develop web applications
        URL
        Frame rate
    Increasing the performance of the audio system
        The Unity Profiler
        Using Force To Mono to save memory
    Summary
Part 3: Advanced Scripting in Unity
Chapter 7: Understanding the Mathematics of Computer Graphics in Unity
    Getting started with coordinate systems 
        Understanding left-handed and right-handed coordinate systems
        Local space
        World space
        Screen space
    Working with vectors 
        Vector addition
        How to subtract vectors
        Dot product
        Cross product
    Working with the transformation matrix 
        Translation matrix
        Rotation matrix
        Scaling matrix
    Working with quaternions
        Creating rotations
        Manipulating rotations
        Working with Euler angles
    Summary
Chapter 8: The Scriptable Render Pipeline in Unity
    An introduction to the Scriptable Render Pipeline
        The Fontainebleau Demo
        The Spaceship Demo
        The BoatAttack Demo
        The Heretic: Digital Human
        The Heretic: VFX Character
        Universal Render Pipeline
        The High Definition Render Pipeline
    Working with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline 
        Exploring the sample scene
        The Universal Render Pipeline asset
        The Volume framework and post-processing
    The Universal Render Pipeline shaders and materials 
        Commonly used shaders 
        Upgrading project materials to Universal Render Pipeline materials
        Creating a shader and a Shader Graph
    Increasing performance of the Universal Render Pipeline
        The Frame Debugger 
        The SRP Batcher
    Summary
Chapter 9: The Data-Oriented Technology Stack in Unity
    Technical requirements
    DOTS overview
        Object-oriented design pattern versus DOTS
        C# Job System
        ECS
        The Burst compiler
    Multithreading and the C# Job System in Unity
        Coroutines
        async/await
        Working with the C# Job System
    Working with ECS in Unity
    Using C# and the Burst compiler
    Summary
Chapter 10: Serialization System and Assets Management in Unity and Azure
    Technical requirements
    Serialization system in Unity 
        What is Unity's serialization system?
    The assets workflow in Unity
        GUID and File ID
        Meta files
        The AssetPostprocessor class and the import pipeline
        The Library folder
    Introducing the special folders in Unity
        Resources folder
        StreamingAssets folder
    Azure Blob storage with Unity's Addressable Asset system
        Setting up an Azure Blob storage service
        Installing the Addressable Assets system package
        Building addressable content 
        Deploying content to the Azure Cloud
        Loading addressable content from the Azure Cloud
    Summary
Chapter 11: Working with Microsoft Game Dev, Azure Cloud, PlayFab, and Unity
    Technical requirements  
    Introducing Microsoft Game Dev, Microsoft Azure Cloud, and Azure PlayFab
        Microsoft Game Dev
        Microsoft Azure Cloud
        Azure PlayFab
    Setting up Azure PlayFab for a Unity project
        Creating a new Azure PlayFab account
        Setting up a game studio and a game title in Azure PlayFab
        Setting up the Azure PlayFab SDK in the Unity project
    Signing up and logging in players using Azure PlayFab in Unity
        Signing up players in Azure PlayFab 
        Logging in players in Azure PlayFab
    Implementing a leaderboard using Azure PlayFab in Unity
        Setting up a leaderboard in Azure PlayFab
        Updating the score of a player from Unity using the Azure PlayFab API
        Loading the leaderboard data from Azure PlayFab in Unity
    Summary
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