Unity 3D and PlayMaker Essentials by Miles, Jere -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents

Section i Background Section ii Building Blocks Section iii Bringing it together

Preface

What this Book is About Who this Book is For How this Book is organized Book content

Section i: Background Section ii: Building Blocks Section iii: Bringing it together

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Acknowledgments

Section i

Background

Note 1.2.1 AAA Studios 1.2.2 the indie Studio 1.3.1 Skills and Jobs 1.3.2 Working in the industry 1.4.1 Role-Playing Games 1.4.2 Adventure Games 1.4.3 Platformer Games 1.4.4 Shooter Games 1.4.5 Action Games 1.4.6 Strategy Games 1.4.7 Simulation Games 1.4.8 Sports Games 1.4.9 Puzzle Games 1.4.10 MMo Games 1.5 Summary Vocabulary Review Quiz Design Document Page Intentionally Left Blank

2.1 introduction to the Design Document

2.1.2 Methods of Design 2.1.3 Logical Design versus Descriptive Design Note 2.1.4 Mission and Vision

2.2 Sections of the Design Document

Download 2.2.1 Game concept 2.2.2 Game characters 2.2.3 Game Story 2.2.4 the Game World 2.2.5 Game Audio 2.2.6 Game interface

2.3 Summary Vocabulary Review Quiz exercises Design Document

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Using Unity and PlayMaker

3.1 installing Unity

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3.2 Unity’s interface

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3.3 Using Unity 3.4 installing PlayMaker

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3.5 PlayMaker’s interface 3.6 State Machines 3.7 Using PlayMaker 3.8 Summary Vocabulary Review Quiz Design Document

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Section ii Building Blocks

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4.1 the Purpose of characters 4.3 traditional character types 4.3.1 the Hero 4.3.2 the Shadow 4.3.3 the Mentor 4.3.4 the Ally 4.3.5 the Herald 4.3.6 the trickster 4.3.7 the Shapeshifter 4.3.8 the threshold Guardian 4.4 Game character types 4.4.1 Merchants 4.4.2 the Quest Giver 4.4.3 information 4.5 character Design Note 4.6 character Asset Design 4.7 importing Assets in Unity Download Video 4.7.1 Back to Projects Note 4.7.2 importing 3D Assets Download Note Note Video Note 4.7.3 Settings for imported 3D Assets Note Note Note Note Note Note Note 4.7.4 From 3D Assets to Player controllable Assets 4.8 character control Systems with PlayMaker Download 4.8.1 Designing the character Response System Note Note 4.8.2 Getting input through Unity 4.8.3 Building State Machines in PlayMaker 4.8.3.1 Moving Sancho Video 4.8.3.2 Rotating Sancho Note 4.8.3.3 Jumping Sancho Download Note 4.8.3.4 the camera Follows Sancho Note 4.9 Summary Vocabulary Review Quiz exercises Design Document Download

Non-Player Characters

5.2 Some Different types of Artificial intelligence

5.2.1 Scripted Behavior 5.2.2 Random Behavior 5.2.3 expert Systems 5.2.4 Mathematical Behavior Modeling 5.2.5 evolutionary Systems

5.3 Selecting an Artificial intelligence System

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5.4 Designing a threshold Guardian 5.5 implementing the threshold Guardian

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5.5.2 Patrolling

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5.5.3 Spotting the Player 5.5.4 Attacking the Player

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5.5.5 Hurting the Player 5.5.6 connecting the Attack and Health States

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5.5.7 Final tweaks

5.6 Prefabs 5.7 Summary

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6.3 How to tell a Story 6.4 the Building Blocks of a Story

6.4.1 characters 6.4.2 Setting 6.4.3 the Problem

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6.4.4 the Plot 6.4.5 the Solution 6.4.6 the theme

6.5 Aristotle and the Greeks

6.5.1 Plot 6.5.2 characters 6.5.3 thought 6.5.4 Diction 6.5.5 Melody 6.5.6 the Spectacle

6.6 the Return of Joseph campbell

Note 6.6.1 the ordinary World 6.6.2 call to Adventure 6.6.3 Refusal of the call 6.6.4 Meeting the Mentor 6.6.5 crossing the threshold

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6.6.6 tests, Allies, and enemies 6.6.7 Approaching the cave 6.6.8 the ordeal 6.6.9 the Reward 6.6.10 the Road Back 6.6.11 Resurrection 6.6.12 Return with elixir

6.7 Story Design

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6.7.2 characters 6.7.3 Setting and Backstory 6.7.4 the Problem 6.7.5 the Plot 6.7.6 the Solution 6.7.7 Dialogue

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6.8 Putting the Story into the Game

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6.8.2 Written text

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6.8.3 character Dialogue

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6.8.4 Journal Systems

6.9 Summary

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7.1 environments for Stories

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7.2 environments for Games

7.2.1 controlling the Player 7.2.2 informing the Player 7.2.3 challenging the Player 7.2.4 the Final Design

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7.3 creating the terrain in Unity

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7.3.2 terrain collider 7.3.3 Height tools

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7.4 Dressing a terrain with Standard content

7.4.1 Painting textures

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7.4.2 Adding Water

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7.4.3 Adding trees

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7.4.4 Adding Grass

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7.5 Adding imported Assets

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7.6 Lighting the environment 7.7 Boundaries 7.8 Summary

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Download 8.1.1 the core Mechanics 8.1.2 Victory and Loss conditions 8.1.3 Balance Mechanics 8.1.4 Story Mechanics 8.1.5 System Mechanics

8.3 Designing our Mechanics

8.3.1 the checkpoint System 8.3.2 Respawning Sancho 8.3.3 Sancho and Water 8.3.4 Sancho’s collection System

8.4 implementing our Mechanics

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8.4.2 Sancho and Water 8.4.3 Respawning Sancho

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8.4.4 Sancho’s collection System

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8.5 Summary

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Section iii Bringing It Together

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9.1 How Audio is Used in Games 9.1.1 Music 9.1.2 Ambience 9.1.3 Sound events 9.2 Finding Audio Note Download 9.3 introduction to Audacity 9.3.1 cutting Up an Audio File Video Note 9.3.2 Applying effects to Audio Download Note 9.3.3 Adjusting Volume Levels 9.4 Audio in Unity 9.4.1 2D Audio Download 9.4.2 3D Audio 9.4.3 Playing Ambient Audio Note 9.4.4 Playing Background Music 9.5 Using PlayMaker to Play Audio 9.5.1 Background Music Note 9.5.2 Ambient Sounds 9.5.3 effects for events Download 9.6 Summary Download Vocabulary Review Quiz exercises Design Document Download

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10.1 the types of User interfaces 10.1.1 Menu-Based Systems 10.1.2 Heads-Up Display Systems and overlays 10.2 User interface Design 10.2.1 HUD Design 10.2.2 Menu Design 10.2.3 Basics of color theory Note 10.3 the User interface System of Unity Download 10.3.1 Building Blocks of uGUi Note Video 10.3.2 constructing the Main Menu 10.3.3 constructing the HUD overlay Download 10.3.4 Polishing the Dialogue Work 10.4 Updating the User interface with PlayMaker 10.4.1 Responses on the Main Menu Note 10.4.2 Updating the overlay Note Video 10.4.3 integrating the Dialogue System Video 10.5 Summary Download Vocabulary Review Quiz exercises Design Document Download

Testing, Tweaking, and Publishing

11.1.1 Hunting Bugs 11.1.2 Play-through testing 11.1.3 Unit testing 11.1.4 Break testing 11.2 Fixing and tweaking

11.2.1 Fixing the Following Sheep

11.3 Building the Game

11.3.1 Game Development Life cycle

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11.3.2 Build options in Unity

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11.3.3 creating a Stand-Alone Build

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11.4 Summary Vocabulary Review Quiz exercises Design Document Index

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