Getting Started With Unity 2018 by Lavieri, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright and Credits

Getting Started with Unity 2018

Third Edition

Dedication Packt Upsell

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Contributors

About the author About the reviewers Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for What this book covers To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files Download the color images Conventions used

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Downloading and Installing Unity

Game engine overview

Game engines for specific game genres

First-person shooters (FPS) Third-person games Other game genres

Available 3D game engines

CryENGINE Lumberyard Microsoft's XNA Game Studio Unreal game engine

Unity – past, present, and future

Version 1.0 - 2005 Version 2.0 - 2007 Version 3.0 - 2010 Version 4.0 - 2012 Version 5.0 - 2015 Version 2017 - 2017 Version 2018 – 2018

The case for Unity

Unity features

Editor Graphics

Unity community

System requirements

Development system requirements Playback system requirements

Downloading Unity Installing Unity Summary

The Unity Interface

Screen real estate Menu

Unity File Edit Assets GameObject Component Window Help

Scene view Game view Project window Hierarchy window Inspector window Toolbar

Transform tools Gizmo Toggles Cloud and Account Buttons Layers and Layouts

Layouts Summary

Designing the Game

Game concept

Game idea Input controls Winning and losing

Game characters

Cucumber Man Cucumber Beetle

Gameplay

Game world layout Starting condition Point system Heads-Up Display

The difficulty balance

Difficulty balance questions Implementation plan

Project organization

Custom assets Standard assets Organization

Summary

Creating Our Terrain

Creating the terrain

Working with height maps Importing the terrain

Shaping the terrain

Smoothing our terrain Creating our spawn points

Painting the terrain Adding water

Saving your work

Adding vegetation Summary

Lights, Cameras, and Shadows

Working with cameras

Understanding camera projections Orientating your frustum Creating a Skybox

Using multiple cameras Working with lighting

Directional lighting Point lighting Spot lighting Area lighting

Implementing reflection probes Understanding shadows Summary

Creating and Importing 3D Objects for Our Game

Understanding assets and GameObjects

Asset packages Understanding GameObjects

Creating 3D objects in Unity

Using prefabs Using additional 3D objects

Using the Unity Asset Store

Hands-on with the Unity Asset Store

Incorporating custom assets in our game Working with imported assets

Planting Cherry Trees Planting Cucumber Patches

Summary

Implementing Our Player Character

Working with Unity's standard asset package Importing the game character Configuring a player controller Fine-tuning our character

Fine-tuning the motor controls Fine-tuning scale Fine-tuning the Capsule Collider Changing and refining input controls

Animating our player character

Reviewing the player controller script Reviewing the Animator component Previewing the animations

Terraforming the terrain for our Cucumber Man Summary

Implementing Our Non-Player Characters

Understanding the non-player characters Importing the non-player characters into our game Animating our non-player characters Incorporating the non-player characters into our game

Working with the Animation Controller

Terraforming the terrain for our Cucumber Beetles

Designating a sandbox area Planting additional cherry trees Creating spawning sites

Adding cucumber patches to our terrain

Creating a cucumber patch area in the sandbox Planting cucumber patches

Adding cucumbers to our terrain Scripting our non-player characters

Getting organized Beetle patrol Beetle finds and eats cucumber Beetle attacks player on the ground Beetle stands to attack

Summary

Adding a Heads-Up Display

Designing our Heads-Up Display Working with a canvas

Adding the canvas Adding the health bar UI components Creating the Lives Remaining UI components Adding the scoring UI components Adding the cherry UI components Adding the cucumber and Cucumber Beetle UI components

Creating a mini-map Scripting for dynamic content

Scripting the cucumber count Scripting the beetle count

Summary

Scripting Our Points System

Collecting cherries from trees

Detecting collisions of Cucumber Man and cherry trees Simulating the collection of cherries Updating the inventory and HUD with cherry count

Adding the cherry-throwing capability

Creating a spot for the cherry Writing a CherryControl script

Adding points based on cherry collection and combat hits

Creating a points manager script Adding points for each cherry picked Adding points for hitting a beetle with a cherry

Summary

Scripting Victory and Defeat

Designing victory and defeat conditions Updating the player's health

Scripting the health bar Decrementing health

Implementing victory Implementing defeat

Scripting defeat based on no cucumbers remaining Scripting defeat for no lives remaining

Updating the HUD with lives remaining Scripting the player character's respawning Summary

Adding Audio and Visual Effects to Our Game

Discovering Unity's audio system

Unity audio basics Unity's Audio Mixer

Planning our game's audio Implementing our game's audio

Importing audio assets Implementing the Cucumber Beetle audio Implementing the Cucumber Man audio

Introduction to Unity's lights and shadows

Adding light sources

Directional light Point light Spot light Area light

Shadows

Discovering Unity's special effects

Particle System Trail Renderer

Adding visual effects to our game

Adding a Point light to our cherry trees Add a special effect using the Particle System

Summary

Optimizing Our Game for Deployment

Using the Profiler window

Getting more out of the Profilers

Optimizing scripts

Optimized code example

Optimizing graphics rendering

Occlusion culling Lighting Mesh renderer

Additional optimizations

Level of detail Static colliders

Creating builds

Understanding the Unity build process Build settings

PC, Mac, and Linux standalone iOS tvOS Android HTML 5/WebGL Facebook Xbox One PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita

Player Settings

Summary

Virtual Reality

Welcome to virtual reality

Development tools

Oculus GearVR OpenVR PlayStation VR

Enabling virtual reality in Unity

Requisite SDKs Configuring your Unity project Recommendations from Unity technologies

Starter content

Oculus VR

Oculus Sample Framework Oculus Stereo Shading Re-Projection Sample Oculus Integration

Vive software

Vive Stereo Rendering Toolkit Vive Input Utility Vive Media Decoder

NVIDIA

NVIDIA VRWorks NVIDIA VR Samples

Unity Technologies

Summary

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