Building a Game With Unity and Blender by Eng, Lee Zhi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

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1. Creating Your Game Concept

Job roles in game development Gameplay design

Starting point Choosing a game genre Game mechanics Level design Rapid prototyping

Writing the game's story Choosing a visual style The characters concept The environment concept Summary

2. Creating Characters

Downloading Blender

A brief history of Blender The basic user interface of Blender

Creating the monster's 3D model Unwrapping the monster's UV map Creating the monster's texture Creating the player character's 3D model Unwrapping the player character's UV map Summary

3. Animating Your Characters

What is character rigging? Creating a monster's armature Creating the player character's armature Weight painting Animating characters The 12 basic principles of animation Summary

4. Creating the Environment

Building terrain and wall models Building rock models Creating rock and wall textures Building grass models Creating the grass texture Summary

5. Integrating Your Assets into the Game

Basic user interface of Unity Importing environment assets

Introducing prefabs Setting up the terrain Setting up water surfaces Setting up foliage Setting up environment lighting Optimizing the scene with Occlusion Culling

Importing character assets Summary

6. Developing the Game Structure

Introduction to game structure design Planning the game flow Designing the user interface structure Player inputs and character movements Creating basic artificial intelligence Summary

7. Creating Levels and Game Progression

Creating character attributes Adding in-game items and power-ups Improving enemy AI Adding save points Summary

8. Post-Production and Visual FX

A basic particle system Mist particles Torch fire Image FX Quality settings Summary

9. Deploying the Game

Build settings

Shared settings The webplayer PC, Mac, and Linux standalone iOS Android WebGL

Optimization level

Player Settings

Cursor hotspot

Summary

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