Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development - Second Edition: Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

My main critic the visibility of the screenshots.The scripts are captured in dark mode which makes is tough to read since the whole book is not color printed.This also makes the terrain and shader section pretty much text only, so the website becomes a necessity for these parts.Otherwise the book is very detailed. Full color for future editions please!

Buy this book; it’s a fantastic reference for refining a prototype. Its biggest flaw is it’s a bit ambitious for an absolute beginner. There are enough changes to Unity outside the control of the author that it could lead to some rage quitting once you hit some of these unforeseen snags (normal maps set to -1 on the some of the downloaded assets almost did me in during the lighting chapter). If you are new to Unity you might want to make this the 2nd book to read and instead pick up one of the numerous books that has you create a capsule running around on a plane shooting projectiles at enemy capsules. You’ll finish that book and wonder what to do with that plane and those capsules and the Unity version or downloaded assets won’t be an issue. That’s where this book comes in; methodically replacing those primitives with more refined game components. Although each chapter isn’t able to go super deep, it provides enough breadcrumbs and context to be able to focus on areas that captivate your interest. It’s really easy to put this book down for a week at a time and just play with animations or lighting or building terrain and then just pick it up and focus on the next piece of the puzzle. Highly recommended.

Great resource for getting started with Unity game development - but some errors/missing information added a bit of headache in Part 3 doing the C# scriptingFor example, tells you to create public Class EnemiesManager script, but then references it as EnemyManager in examples, will not work unless you realize this and match the name(s) appropriately.Another example (page 483) does NOT tell you that in order to use UnityEvents you have to add the usingUnityEngine.Events at the top (using statement for the UnityEngine.Events namespace)Obviously, I could be missing something, but I checked and rechecked currently and had to Google for examples/fixes.I've worked in IT and software companies for 20+ years, number one issue with documentation for technical processes... is that it doesn't exist or isn't update to date (lol)... issue number two is assumed knowledge gaps, thus skipping important details like the above.

Nicolas really is an expert on Unity and he has created a book which covers every single aspect to give you an idea of the process from start to finish. He explains things well and makes it really good fun to progress through the book, seeing what you have developed or learnt.My suggestion to make even better would be to add a simple movable game object further forward in the book so as you go on building the game you can see it through the eyes of a player, also some of the darker screenshots didn't come out too clearly. But overall a great book.

I have to assume this is a good book as it was for my grandson and he seems to like it. I looked at a few pages as it was as clear as a mud wrestler’s jock strap! Oh to be young and intelligent! I wish.