Unity 5 for Android Essentials电子书

Unity 5 for Android Essentials

Table of Contents

Unity 5 for Android Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up and Configuring an Android Platform

Configuring Unity 5 for Android devices

APK expansion files in Unity 5

Overview

Formats

The updating process

Setting up expansion files in Unity 5

Building for Android devices

Unity License Comparison Overview

NavMeshes, pathfinding, and crowd simulation

Level of Detail (LOD) support

Audio filters

Video playback and streaming

Full-fledged streaming with asset bundles

Hundred thousand dollar turnover

Mecanim – IK Rigs

Mecanim – sync layers and additional curves

Custom splash screen

Build size stripping

Lightmapping with global illumination and area lights

HDR and tone mapping

Occlusion culling

Light probes

Static batching

Render-to-texture effects

Fullscreen postprocessing effects

NavMesh – dynamic obstacles and priority

.NET socket support

Profiler and GPU profiling

Real-time directional shadows

Script access to asset pipeline

Summary

2. Accessing Android Functionality

Creating Java and native C plugins for an Android platform

Creating plugins in C

Creating plugins in Java (Eclipse IDE)

Writing Java code in plugin

Turning on and off a hardware flashlight

On Unity side

Exporting and importing a JAR library from Eclipse into Unity

Importing AndroidManifest

Using Java plugins in Unity scripts

Anti-piracy check

Vibration

Activity Indicator

Screen orientation

System information

Accessing the Android sensors and features within Unity 5

Acceleration

Gyroscope

Compass

Summary

3. High-end Graphics for Android Devices

Physically-based shaders

Basic shader concepts

The vertex shader

The geometry shader

The pixel/fragment shader

Shading languages

Cg

Unity shaders in Cg

A custom diffuse lighting model

A basic reflection environment

Masked texture reflection

Lighting model techniques

The Lit sphere model

Realistic rendering

Global illumination

Practicing in shader optimization

Best case practice

Summary

4. Animation, Audio, Physics, and Particle Systems in Unity 5

New Mecanim animation features in Unity 5

State machine behavior

State machine transition

Asset creation API

Direct blend tree

Programmatically creating assets by Unity 5 API

Creating the controller

Adding parameters

Adding state machines

Adding states

Adding transitions

Going deeper into new audio features

Mood transitions

Physics and particle system effects in Unity 5

Particle system performance tips and tricks

Legacy versus Shuriken Unity's built-in particle systems

Particle system tips

Summary

5. Asset Bundles in Unity 5 Pro

An overview of the asset bundles in Unity 5

Downloading new code and data in real time for Android devices

Managing loaded asset bundles

Asset bundles and binary data

Asset bundles and scripts

Asset bundle dependencies

Safeness techniques in practice

Summary

6. Optimization and Transformation Techniques

Occlusion culling and level of detail in optimization techniques

Optimizing by LOD

Unity C# and Unity JS optimization tips and tricks

Transforming Unity C# code into Unity JavaScript code and vice versa

JavaScript variables and types

C# variables and types

Converting types in Unity JS

Converting types in Unity C#

Unity JS function versus Unity C# function

Unity JS return versus Unity C# return

Unity JS yielding versus Unity C# yielding

Unity JS directives versus Unity C# directives

Summary

7. Troubleshooting and Best Practices

Measuring performance with the built-in Android profiler

General CPU activity

Rendering statistics

Detailed Unity player statistics

Detailed script statistics

Detailed statistics on memory allocated by scripts

Debugging Android devices with the Unity profiler tool

Profiler timeline

The CPU area

The Rendering area

The Memory area

The simple view

The detailed view

The audio area

The physics area

The GPU area

Real-practice techniques

The high-speed, off-screen particles technique in Unity

The pool technique

The scriptable profiler tool

Unity profiler tricks

Creating a simple profiler

Summary

Index