Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide: LITE

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: That's One Fancy Hammer!
• Introducing Unity 3D
• Unity takes over the world
• Browser-based 3D? Welcome to the future
• Time for action – install the Unity Web Player
• The Scene window
• The Game window
• The Hierarchy
• The Project panel
• The Inspector
• Invade Island Demo as a paratrooper
• Layers and layout dropdowns
• Playback controls
• Scene controls
• Don't stop there—live a little!
• Summary
• Big ambition, tiny games

• Chapter 2: Game #1: Ticker Taker
• Kick up a new Unity project
• Where did everything go?
• 'Tis volley
• Keep the dream alive
• Slash and burn!
• The many faces of keep-up
• Creating the ball and the hitter
• Time for action – create the ball
• A ball by any other name
• Time for action – rename the ball
• Origin story
• XYZ/RGB
• Time for action – move the ball into the "sky"
• Time for action – shrink the ball
• Time for action – save your Scene
• Time for action – add the Paddle
• What's a Mesh?
• Poly wanna crack your game performance?
• Keeping yourself in the dark
• Time for action – add a light
• Time for action – move and rotate the light
• Extra credit
• Are you a luminary?
• Who turned out the lights?
• Darkness reigns
• Time for action – test your game
• Let's get physical
• Time for action – add physics to your game
• Understanding the gravity of the situation
• More bounce to the ounce
• Time for action – make the ball bouncy
• Summary
• Following the script

• Chapter 3: Code Comfort
• What is code?
• Time for action – write your first Unity Script
• A leap of faith
• Lick it and stick it
• Disappear Me!
• It's all Greek to me
• You'll never go hungry again
• With great sandwich comes great responsibility
• Examining the code
• Time for action – find the Mesh Renderer component
• Time for action – make the ball reappear
• Ding!
• Time for action – journey to the Unity Script Reference
• The Renderer class
• What's another word for "huh"?
• It's been fun
• Time for action – unstick the Script
• Gone, but not forgotten
• Why code?
• Equip your baby bird
• Time for action – create a new MouseFollow Script
• A capital idea
• Animating with code
• Time for action – animate the Paddle
• Pick a word—(almost) any word
• Screen Coordinates versus World Coordinates
• Move the Paddle
• Worst. Game. Ever.
• See the matrix
• Time for action – animate the Paddle
• A tiny bit o' math
• Tracking the numbers
• Futzing with the numbers
• Time for action – log the new number
• She's A-Work!
• Somebody get me a bucket
• Time for action – declare a variable to store the screen midpoint
• Using all three dees
• Time for action – follow the Y position of the mouse
• A keep-up game for robots
• Once more into the breach
• Time for action – revisit the Unity Language Reference
• Our work here is done
• Time for action – add the sample code to your Script
• One final tweak
• What's a quaternion?
• Wait, what's a quaternion?
• WHAT THE HECK IS A QUATERNION??
• Educated guesses
• More on Slerp
• Right on target
• Keep it up
• Beyond the game mechanic

• Index