Unity UI Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive - Softcover

Francesco Sapio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785885820 ISBN 13: 9781785885822

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive

About This Book

• Design and develop interactive and professional user interfaces (UIs) for games in Unity
• Discover how to implement and deal with various in-game UI elements that will impress your players
• This practical recipe guide will help you to efficiently create powerful and remarkable UIs using C# code

Who This Book Is For

If you are a game developer with some experience in Unity and C# and want to create the best interactive experience fast and intuitively, then this book is for you. If you are an intermediate game developer or an expert, these recipes will help you bring out the power of the new UI Unity system.

What You Will Learn

• Implement different kinds of counters and healthbars
• Deal with timers and find out how to format them
• Animate and vivify UI elements
• Handle runtime customizations
• Add complex Head-up displays (HUDs)
• Design and implement 3D UIs
• Integrate minimaps in the UI

In Detail

With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games.

This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we'll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements.

Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD scripting. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface.

About this title

About the Author

Francesco Sapio received his Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics degree from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, a couple of semesters in advance, graduating with summa cum laude; he is currently a researcher at the same university. He is an Unreal and Unity 3D expert, skilled game designer, and an experienced user of major graphics programs. He helped the development of many games (both educational and commercial). He is also an active writer on the topic of game development. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but most of all, creating video gamesthanks to his passion for game designing and programming.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785885820
• ISBN 13: 9781785885822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307