Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide电子书

Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Saying Hello to Unity and Android

Understanding what makes Unity great

Understanding what makes Android great

Understanding how Unity and Android work together

Differences between Pro and Basic

License comparison overview

Setting up the development environment

Time for action – installing the JDK

What just happened?

Time for action – installing the Android SDK

What just happened?

Time for action – installing Unity 3D

What just happened?

Optional code editor

Connecting to a device

Time for action – simple device connection

What just happened?

Time for action – connecting trickier devices

What just happened?

Unity Remote

Building a simple application

Time for action – Hello World

What just happened?

Have a go hero – working ahead

Summary

2. Looking Good – Graphical Interface

Creating a Tic-tac-toe game

Time for action – creating Tic-tac-toe

What just happened?

Finishing the game

Time for action – finish creating the game

What just happened?

GUI Skins and GUI Styles

A prettier form of Tic-tac-toe

Time for action – styling the game

What just happened?

Have a go hero – backgrounds

Dynamic positioning

Time for action – the dynamic GUI

What just happened?

Have a go hero – scaling menus

A better way to build to device

Time for action – build and run

What just happened?

Have a go hero – single player mode

Summary

3. The Backbone of Any Game – Meshes, Materials, and Animations

Setting up

Time for action – the setup

What just happened?

Importing the meshes

Time for action – importing the tank

What just happened?

Tank import settings

Setting up the tank

Time for action – creating the tank

What just happened?

Time for action – keeping score

What just happened?

Time for action – controlling the chassis

What just happened?

Time for action – controlling the turret

What just happened?

Time for action – putting the pieces together

What just happened?

Have a go hero – cannon alignment

Creating the materials

Time for action – creating the city

What just happened?

Have a go hero – decorating the city

Time for action – moving treads

What just happened?

Have a go hero – turning with the treads

Animations

The target's animations

Time for action – setting up target's animations

What just happened?

State machines

Time for action – creating the target state machine

What just happened?

Time for action – scripting the target

What just happened?

Creating the prefab

Time for action – creating the target

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more targets

Ray tracing to shoot

Time for action – simple shooting

What just happened?

Have a go hero – better GUI

Summary

4. Setting the Stage – Camera Effects and Lighting

The camera effects

Skyboxes and distance fog

Time for action – adding a skybox and distance fog

What just happened?

Target indicator

Time for action – creating the pointer

What just happened?

Time for action – controlling the indicator

What just happened?

Time for action – working with a second camera

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adjusting the position

Turbo boost

Time for action – using the boost effect

What just happened?

Have a go hero – styling and control

Lights

Time for action – adding more lights

What just happened?

Lightmaps

Time for action – creating a lightmap

What just happened?

Have a go hero – reason and speed

Cookies

Time for action – applying headlights

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding a switch

Blob shadow

Time for action – a tank with a shadow

What just happened?

Have a go hero – making it square

Summary

5. Getting Around – Pathfinding and AI

Understanding AI and pathfinding

The NavMesh

Time for action – creating the NavMesh

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating extra obstacles

The NavMeshAgent component

Time for action – creating the enemy

What just happened?

The chase

Time for action – the player is over here

What just happened?

Time for action – chasing the player

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding shadow

Being attacked

Time for action – getting ready to fire

What just happened?

Have a go hero – player feedback

Attacking the enemy

Time for action – giving it a weakness

What just happened?

Have a go hero – coloring the enemy

Spawning

Time for action – creating spawns

What just happened?

Have a go hero – two for one

Pop Quiz – understanding enemies

Summary

6. Specialties of the Mobile Device – Touch and Tilt

Setting up

Time for action – creating the project

What just happened?

Controlling with tilt

Time for action – steering the space ship

What just happened?

Making things move in space

Time for action – flying asteroids

What just happened?

Adding space collisions

Time for action – adding collisions

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding points

Creating the enemy

Time for action – adding an enemy ship

What just happened?

Have a go hero – skybox and fog

Controlling with touch

Time for action – touch to shoot

What just happened?

Have a go hero – healthy ships

Spawning in space

Time for action – creating a space spawn

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more to spawn and shoot

Pop Quiz – understanding Android components

Summary

7. Throwing Your Weight Around – Physics and a 2D Camera

2D games in a 3D world

Time for action – preparing the world

What just happened?

Physics

Building blocks

Time for action – creating planks

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating a stone block

Physics materials

Time for action – sliding and bouncing

What just happened?

Characters

The enemy

Time for action – creating the pigs

What just happened?

The ally

Time for action – creating the red bird

What just happened?

Controls

Attacking

Time for action – creating the slingshot

What just happened?

Watching

Time for action – controlling the camera

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more levels

A better background

Time for action – creating the parallax background

What just happened?

Have a go hero – dark of the night

The flock variety

The yellow bird

Time for action – creating the yellow bird

What just happened?

The blue bird

Time for action – creating the blue bird

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating a rainbow bird

The black bird

Time for action – creating the black bird

What just happened?

Have a go hero – explosive blocks

Level selection

Time for action – creating the level selection

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding some style

Summary

8. Special Effects – Sound and Particles

Understanding audio

Import settings

Audio Listener

Audio Source

Adding background music

Time for action – adding background music

What just happened?

Have a go hero – setting some mood

Creating an alarm system

Time for action – warning the player

What just happened?

Have a go hero – differentiation

Understanding particle systems

Particle system settings

Creating engine trails

Time for action – adding engine trails

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more trails

Putting it together

Explosions

Time for action – adding explosions

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more types of explosions

Creating laser blasts

Time for action – adding laser blasts

What just happened?

Have a go hero – more types of lasers

Summary

9. Optimization

Minimizing the application footprint

Editor log

Asset compression

Models

Model tab

Rig tab

Animations tab

Textures

Audio

Player settings

Rendering

Optimization

Tracking performance

Editor statistics

The Profiler

Tracking script performance

Time for action – tracking scripts

What just happened?

Minimizing lag

Occlusion

Time for action – occluding tanks

What just happened?

Points to remember

Summary

A. Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 5, Getting Around – Pathfinding and AI

Pop quiz – understanding enemies

Chapter 6, Specialties of the Mobile Device – Touch and Tilt

Pop quiz – understanding Android components

Index