Getting Started with Unity 2018 - Third Edition电子书

Getting Started with Unity 2018

Third Edition

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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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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