Unity Game Development Essentials
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- Kick start game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with ease
- Understand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and more
- Test & optimize your game to perfection with essential tips-and-tricks
- Written in clear, plain English, this book is packed with working examples and innovative ideas
- This book is based on Unity version 2.5 and uses JavaScript for scripting
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 316 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : October 2009
ISBN : 184719818X
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847198-18-1
Author(s) : Will Goldstone
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Unity, Games
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Third Dimension
Chapter 2: Environments
Chapter 3: Player Characters
Chapter 4: Interactions
Chapter 5: Prefabs, Collection, and HUD
Chapter 6: Instantiation and Rigid Bodies
Chapter 7: Particle Systems
Chapter 8: Menu Design
Chapter 9: Finishing Touches
Chapter 10: Building and Sharing
Chapter 11: Testing and Further Study
Index
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- An understanding of the Unity 3D Engine and game development
- Build a 3D island and set of mini-games for your players
- Incorporate terrains and externally produced 3D models to get your game environment up and running
- Build your own first person player character
- Combine scripting and animation to transform your static objects into dynamic interactive game elements
- Add realism to your games by using particle systems
- Create a professional, easy-to-navigate menu and link the menu scene with levels of your game
- Add sound, lighting effects, realistic shadows, and other dynamic effects to your game environment
- Creating stunning user interfaces with textures and scripting
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Game engines are central to the video games we know and love. From the artwork to the mathematics that underpin the frames onscreen, the engine calls the shots. Aside from offering one of the leading 3D game engines, Unity also provides a superlative development tool – a tool that can produce professional standard games for Mac, PC, and the Unity Web Player.
This book is a complete exercise in game development covering environments, physics, sound, particles, and much more, to get you up and working with Unity quickly.
Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games before getting to grips with development in Unity itself. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating simple game elements you will learn everything you’ll need to get started with game development for the PC, Mac, and Web.
This book is designed to cover a set of easy to follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. By introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you'll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!
Get started with game development using the Unity game engine with this hands-on, easy-to-follow guide
This book follows an informal, demystifying approach to the world of game development with the Unity game engine. With no prior knowledge of game development or 3D required, you will learn from scratch, taking each concept at a time working up to a full 3D mini-game. You'll learn scripting with JavaScript and master the Unity development environment with easy to follow stepwise tasks.
The printed version of the book is in black and white, but a full color version of the images is available for download here. The eBook version, available from Packt, is in full color.
If you’re a designer or animator who wishes to take their first steps into game development, or if you’ve simply spent many hours sitting in front of video games, with ideas bubbling away in the back of your mind, Unity and this book should be your starting point. No prior knowledge of game production is required, inviting you to simply bring with you a passion for making great games.
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- Build fun games using the free Unity 3D game engine even if you've never coded before
- Learn how to "skin" projects to make totally different games from the same file – more games, less effort!
- Deploy your games to the Internet so that your friends and family can play them
- Packed with ideas, inspiration, and advice for your own game design and development
- Stay engaged with fresh, fun writing that keeps you awake as you learn
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- Turn your architectural plans into a model
- Study modeling, materials, textures, and light basics in Blender
- Create photo-realistic images in detail
- Create realistic virtual tours of buildings and scenes
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- Walk through the complete process of building amazing machines
- Model and create mechanical models and vehicles with detailed designs
- Add advanced global illumination options to the renders created in Blender 3D using YafaRay and LuxRender
- Create machines such as a handgun, a steam punk spacecraft, and a transforming robot
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- Build stunning, interactive Papervision3D applications from scratch
- Export and import 3D models from Autodesk 3ds Max, SketchUp and Blender to Papervision3D
- In-depth coverage of important 3D concepts with demo applications, screenshots and example code.
- Step-by-step guide for beginners and professionals with tips and tricks based on the authors’ practical experience
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- Render spectacular scenes with realistic lighting in any 3D application using interior and exterior lighting techniques
- Give an amazing look to 3D scenes by applying light rigs and shadow effects
- Apply color effects to your scene by changing the World and Lamp color values
- A step-by-step guide with practical examples that help add dimensionality to your scene
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- Learn to think in JavaScript, the language of the web browser
- Object-oriented programming made accessible and understandable to web developers
- Do it yourself: experiment with examples that can be used in your own scripts
- Write better, more maintainable JavaScript code
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- Master techniques to create believable natural surface materials
- Take your models to the next level of realism or artistic development by using the material and texture settings within Blender 2.5.
- Take the hassle out of material simulation by applying faster and more efficient material and texture strategies
- Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a logically organized according to the surface types with clear instructions and explanations on how these recipes can be applied across a range of materials including complex materials such as oceans, smoke, fire and explosions.
