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Getting Started with Unity - PDF+EPUB

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Pages: 170 pages
Published: 31 August 2013
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849695849
ISBN-13: 978-1849695848
Format: PDF, EPUB


Learn how to use Unity by creating your very own Outbreak survival game while developing your essential skills

Overview

Use basic AI techniques to bring your game to life
Learn how to use Mecanim; create states and manage them through scripting
Use scripting to manage the graphical interface, collisions, animations, persistent data, or transitions between scenes
In Detail

Unity is a game development engine which is fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows used to create interactive 3D content. Unity is best used for making great games that can deploy to numerous platforms.

Getting Started with Unity guides you progressively through the necessary steps to create a survival game using Unity3Ds built-in objects and components, JavaScript, animations with Mecanim, and some basic AI.

In this book, you will be introduced to a wide range of the core features used for games developed with Unity3D, including the user interface and much more. Furthermore, you will also learn about essential aspects like transformations, scripting, navigation, and built-in controllers.

Beginning with an introduction to the user interface, you will learn the necessary skills required to create a survival video game. Each section is a stepping-stone toward the completion of the final game. By the end of the book, you will have created an indoor level with enemies, AI, weapons, objects to collect, and all the logic to control the game.

What you will learn from this book

Understand the different layouts, windows, and shortcuts, and navigate through scenes
Use, combine, and transform built-in objects and components including textures, water, GUI elements, controllers, lights, particles, and shapes
Understand different types of colliders, individualize objects with tags, apply colliders, and manage collisions through scripting
Learn how to create scripts, understand and use the default functions, and employ the console for debugging purposes
Access and modify game objects properties through scripting
Create functions, pass and access variables, and call functions between scripts
Implement basic AI for path-finding or user detection
Load scenes, navigate through scenes, and create persistent objects across scenes
Approach

Getting Started with Unity is written in an easy-to-follow tutorial format.

Who this book is written for

Getting Started with Unity is for 3D game developers who would like to learn how to use Unity3D and become familiar with its core features. This book is also suitable for intermediate users who would like to improve their skills. No prior knowledge of Unity3D is required.

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