9781787125520
Mastering Unity UI Development: All you need to superpower your games with great user interfaces
by: Dr. Ashley Godbold
ISBN-10: 1787125521
ISBN-13: 9781787125520
Publication Date 出版日期: 2018-07-10
Print Length 页数: 482
Book Description
By finelybook
A functional UI is an important component for player interaction in every type of video game. Along with imparting crucial statistical information to the player,the UI is also the window through which the player engages with the world established by the game. Unity’s tools give you the opportunity to create complex and attractive UIs to make your game stand out.
This book helps you realize the full potential of Unity’s powerful tools to create the best UI for your games by walking you through the creation of myriad user interface components.
Learn how to create visually engaging heads-up-displays,pause menus,health bars,circular progress bars,animated menus,and more. This book not only teaches how to lay out visual elements,but also how to program these features and implement them across multiple games of varying genres.
While working through the examples provided,you will learn how to develop a UI that scales to multiple screen resolutions,so your game can be released on multiple platforms with minimal changes.
Contents
1: DESIGNING USER INTERFACES
2: CANVASES,PANELS,AND BASIC LAYOUTS
3: AUTOMATIC LAYOUTS
4: THE EVENT SYSTEM AND PROGRAMMING FOR UI
5: BUTTONS
6: TEXT,IMAGES,AND TEXTMESH PRO-TEXT
7: MASKS AND OTHER INPUTS
8: ANIMATIONS AND PARTICLES IN THE UI
9: WORLD SPACE UI
10: MOBILE-SPECIFIC UI
What You Will Learn
Design principles and patterns for laying out elements in your UI
Techniques that allow your UI to scale appropriately in different resolutions
How to use automatic layouts to streamline your UI building process
Properties of the Event System and how to appropriately hook events to your UI elements
Access the components and properties of UI elements via code
Implement all of Unity’s built-in UI elements as well as those provided by TextMeshPro
Develop key UI components that are popularly used in multiple game genres
Add visual flare to user interfaces with the use of animation and particle effects
Create a UI that displays in the Screen Space as well as World Space
Authors
Dr. Ashley Godbold
Ashley Godbold is a programmer,game designer,artist,mathematician,and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics,a Master of Science in Mathematics,a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design,and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She also authored Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition (Packt Publishing). She enjoys playing video games and watching anime with her husband,daughter,and two cats.
