Unity Game Development Essentials. If you have ambitions to be a game developer this guide is a must. Covering all the fundamentals of the Unity game engine, it will help you understand the different elements of 3D game creation through practical projects

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• Unity Game Development Essentials
  • Table of Contents
  • Unity Game Development Essentials
  • Credits
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewers
  • Preface
    • What this book covers
      • Chapter 1Welcome to the Third Dimension
      • Chapter 2Environments
      • Chapter 3Player Characters
      • Chapter 4Interactions
      • Chapter 5Prefabs, Collection, and HUD
      • Chapter 6Instantiation and Rigidbodies
      • Chapter 7Particle Systems
      • Chapter 8Menu Design
      • Chapter 9Finishing Touches
      • Chapter 10Building and sharing
      • Chapter 11Testing and further study
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the necessary assets for the book
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Welcome to the Third Dimension
    • Getting to grips with 3D
      • Coordinates
      • Local space versus World space
      • Vectors
      • Cameras
      • Polygons, edges, vertices, and meshes
      • Materials, textures, and shaders
      • Rigid Body physics
      • Collision detection
    • Essential Unity concepts
      • The Unity way
        • Assets
        • Scenes
        • Game Objects
        • Components
        • Scripts
        • Prefabs
    • The interface
      • The Scene window and Hierarchy
      • The Inspector
      • The Project window
      • The Game window
    • Summary
  • 2. Environments
    • • External modellers
      • Resources
    • Your first Unity project
    • Using the terrain editor
      • Terrain menu features
        • Importing and exporting heightmaps
        • Set Heightmap resolution
        • Creating the lightmap
        • Mass Place Trees
        • Flatten Heightmap
        • Refresh Tree and Detail Prototypes
      • The terrain toolset
        • Terrain Script
        • Raise Height
        • Paint height
        • Smooth height
        • Paint Texture
        • Place Trees
        • Paint Details
        • Terrain Settings
      • Sun, Sea, Sandcreating the island
        • • Step 1Terrain setup
          • Step 2Island outline
          • Step 3Volcano!
          • Step 4Adding textures
            • Painting procedure
            • Sandy areas
            • Grass & Rock
            • Volcanoes Rock!
          • Step 5Tree time
          • Step 6Grassed up
          • Step 7Let there be lights!
            • Creating sunlight
          • Step 8Whats that sound?
            • Stereo versus Mono
            • Formats
            • The hills are alive!
            • Importing your first package
            • Further audio settings
          • Step 9Look to the skybox!
          • Step 10Open water
          • Step 11Island walkabout
          • Step 12Sun alignment and final tweaks
      • Take Me Home! Introducing models
        • Importing the model package
        • Common settings for models
          • Meshes
          • Materials
          • Animations
        • Setting up the outpost model
    • Summary
  • 3. Player Characters
    • Working with the Inspector
      • Tags
      • Layers
      • Prefabs and the Inspector
    • Deconstructing the First Person Controller object
      • Parent-child issues
      • First Person Controller objects
        • Object 1: First Person Controller (parent)
          • Transform
          • FPSWalker (Script)
          • Character Controller
          • Mouse Look (Script)
        • Object 2: Graphics
          • Mesh filter
          • Mesh renderer
        • Object 3: Main Camera
          • Camera
          • GUILayer and Flare Layer
          • Mouse Look (Script)
          • Audio listener
    • Scripting basics
      • • Commands
        • Variables
          • Variable data types
          • Using variables
          • Public versus private
        • Functions
          • Update()
          • OnMouseDown()
          • Writing functions
        • If else statements
          • • Multiple conditions
        • Globals and dot syntax
          • • Using static to define globals
            • Dot syntax
        • Comments
        • Further reading
    • The FPSWalker script
      • • Launching the script
          • • MacFPSWalker in Unitron
            • Windows PCFPSWalker in Uniscite
        • Deconstructing the script
          • Variable declaration
          • Storing movement information
          • Moving the character
          • Checking grounded
          • @Script commands
    • Summary
  • 4. Interactions
    • Exploring collisions
    • Ray casting
      • • The frame miss
        • Predictive collision detection
    • Adding the outpost
      • • Positioning
        • Scaling
        • Colliders and tagging the door
        • Disabling automatic animation
    • Opening the outpost
      • Approach 1Collision detection
        • Creating new assets
        • Scripting for character collision detection
          • Working with OnControllerColliderHit
          • Writing custom functions
            • Declaring the function
            • Playing audio
            • Checking door status
            • Playing animation
            • Reversing the procedure
            • Function efficiency
            • Finishing the script
        • Attaching the script
      • Approach 2Ray casting
        • Disabling collision detectionusing comments
        • Resetting the door collider
        • Adding the ray
    • Summary
  • 5. Prefabs, Collection, and HUD
    • Creating the battery prefab
      • Download, import, and place
      • Tagging the battery
      • Scale, collider, and rotation
        • Enlarging the battery
        • Adding a trigger collider
        • Creating a rotation effect
        • Saving as a prefab
    • Scattering batteries
    • Displaying the battery GUI
      • Creating the GUI Texture object
      • Positioning the GUI Texture
      • Scripting for GUI change
    • Battery collection with triggers
    • Restricting outpost access
      • Restricting access
        • Utilizing GetComponent()
      • Hints for the player
        • Battery GUI hint
        • GUI Text hint
        • Using fonts
    • Summary
  • 6. Instantiation and Rigid Bodies
    • Introducing instantiation
      • In concept
      • In code
        • Passing in an object
        • Position and rotation
    • Introducing rigid bodies
      • Forces
      • The Rigidbody component
    • Making the minigame
      • Creating the coconut prefab
        • Creating the textured coconut
        • Adding physics
        • Saving as a prefab
      • Creating the Launcher object
      • Scripting coconut throws
        • Checking for player input
        • Playing feedback sound
        • Instantiating the coconut
        • Naming instances
        • Assigning velocity
          • Ensuring component presence
        • Safeguarding collisions
          • Including the Audio Source component
      • Script and variable assignment
      • Instantiate restriction and object tidying
        • Activating coconut throw
        • Removing coconuts
      • Adding the coconut shy platform
        • Import settings
          • The platform
          • Targets and coconut collisions
        • Placement
        • Coconut detection script
          • Establishing variables
          • Collision detection
          • Resetting the target
          • Including audio source
        • Script assignment
        • Making more targets
      • Winning the game
        • Variable setup
        • Checking for a win
        • Script assignment
        • Incrementing and decrementing targets
          • Adding
          • Subtracting
      • Finishing touches
        • Adding the crosshair
          • Toggling the crosshair GUI Texture
        • Informing the player
    • Summary
  • 7. Particle Systems
    • What is a particle system?
      • Particle emitter
      • Particle Animator
      • Particle Renderer
        • In summary
    • Making the task
      • Asset download
      • Adding the log pile
      • Creating the fire particle systems
        • Making fire
          • Ellipsoid Particle Emitter Settings
          • Particle Animator settings
          • Particle Renderer settings
          • Adding a material
          • Positioning the FireSystem
          • Time to Test!
        • Making smoke
          • Ellipsoid Particle Emitter settings
          • Particle Animator settings
          • Particle Renderer settings
          • Positioning
        • Adding audio to the fire
      • Lighting the fire
        • Adding the matches
        • Creating the Matches GUI
        • Collecting the matches
        • Setting fire
    • Testing and confirming
    • Summary
  • 8. Menu Design
    • Interfaces and menus
      • Making the main menu
        • Creating the scene
          • Visual example
          • Duplicating the island
            • Grouping the environment objects
            • Duplicating the scene
        • Cancelling mip mapping
        • Adding titling
          • GUI Texture formats
          • Object creation
          • Positioning
    • Creating the menuapproach 1
      • Adding the play button
        • GUI Texture button script
        • Assigning public member variables
          • Testing the button
        • Adding the instructions button
        • Adding the quit button
        • Using debug commands to check scripts
    • Creating the menuapproach 2
      • Disabling Game Objects
      • Writing an OnGUI() script for a simple menu
        • Fixed versus layout
        • Public member variables
        • The OnGUI() function
        • Flexible positioning for GUIs
        • Adding UnityGUI buttons
        • Opening scenes with custom functions
          • Applying and styling
        • GUI skin settings
      • Decision time
    • Summary
  • 9. Finishing Touches
    • Volcano!
      • Positioning the particle system
      • Downloading assets
      • Making the smoke material
      • Particle system settings
        • Ellipsoid Particle Emitter settings
        • Particle Animator settings
      • Adding audio to the volcano
      • Volcano testing
    • Coconut trails
      • Editing the Prefab
      • Trail Renderer component
      • Updating the prefab
    • Performance tweaks
      • Camera Clip Planes and fog
      • Ambient lighting
    • Instructions scene
      • Adding screen text
      • Text Animation using Linear Interpolation (Lerp)
      • Menu return
    • Island level fade-in
      • UnityGUI texture rendering
    • Game win notification
    • Summary
  • 10. Building and Sharing
    • Build Settings
      • Web Player
        • Player Settings
      • Web Player Streamed
      • OS X Dashboard Widget
      • OS X/Windows Standalone
    • Building the game
      • Adapting for web build
        • • Quit button platform automation
      • Texture compression and debug stripping
      • Building standalone
        • Indie versus Pro
      • Building for the Web
        • Adapting web player builds
          • Detection script<HEAD>
          • Object embed<BODY>
    • Quality Settings
    • Player Input settings
    • Sharing your work
    • Summary
  • 11. Testing and Further Study
    • Testing and finalizing
      • Public testing
        • Frame rate feedback
        • Boosting performance
    • Approaches to learning
      • Cover as many bases as possible
      • If you don't know, just ask!
    • Summary
  • Index

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