Unity 4.x Cookbook Paperback – June 14, 2013

I bought the Kindle version of this book. and the table of contents looks good. but in each chapter, it just mentioned a little bit, not even expend the contents, you can can most contents of this book on youtube or official website.kinda of disappointed

I love all things Unity, of that there is no doubt. This book provides more interesting stuff and it really is kind of cool. There is so much great Unity material out there so when I write about something exciting in Unity, there is a lot of written and video documentation and so much of it is mundane, but the cookbook is pretty good.Right now I'm developing in Unity 4.3 I think and there is so much great Unity stuff, best of all, it is truly cross platform, I do all of my coding on my Mac (a mini, 10.9.3)

This book is meant to be a handy place to find a number of templates that you can customize for your own use. It's not meant to be a beginning primer, and does assume that you have some basic knowledge about Unity already. If you go into the book with that assumption, you won't be disappointed.I'm about half way through, and I'm overall pleased with it. It does seem like it's a bit confused about the audience, though. The initial examples were pretty short and don't have a lot of explanation. There is one later example which implements something with 10 variables, then explains why you could use an array instead. Why they felt the need to explain basic programming concepts, but failed to explain the first examples better, I don't understand. I don't consider this to be a major flaw since they were simple, just a curious decision. I'd rather see well written examples with explanations afterwards if necessary.All the graphics were made and explained with Adobe instead of a freeware product. It didn't matter much to me, since they were straightforward, but it may matter to some people.

I bought this book to learn about mecanim and the new features in unity 4.i am very very sad... EVERYTHING in this book can be found in YouTube with some explanations... the book do not explain anything is just step 1 do this, step 2 attach this file...the table of content is amazing, but only touch the surface of each topic.only good if you are a totally new.i will not recommend this to any one.

Ok, its a cookbook. Just recipes ready to consumption. But they could had explained better the principles behind the examples. It would made the book more useful. But its still a good book.

Simple and practical. Could have more about mecanim, but its ok. It has some good samples, and the authors made the book easy to red.

Lots of helpful info.

This is not a book to teach you Unity from start to finish. It assumes you know the basics and are willing to write scripts in C# to get things done. As such, it was a perfect fit for me. I have the basic knowledge and know my way around Unity and have experience in programming in different languages.It has a clear structure and each chapter has several usable short examples that you can use to create more extensive scripts. I really appreciated the examples on writing and parsing files. Still have to try some of the examples, but have applied several of the techniques already in my current projects.Some examples are a bit too pragmatic and could use some more comments on why it was created this way. To reuse examples, I like complete code sections, but to learn how they work and why there are created that way, I prefer examples to be split in sections with explanations in between. Here you get a problem and are immediately greeted with a solution script and some explanation afterwards. From an educational perspective, this could be more refined.If you want to learn Unity, wait to read this book. You might start from Game Development Essentials, by Will Goldstone, which I recommend as a first Unity book.But I do recommend this book.