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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran

4 (6)

Unity Game Development Blueprints

4 (6)

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

If you want to build enticing projects with Unity, this book is for you. Readers who are familiar with the basics of how to create simple projects in Unity will have an easier time.

Preface

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. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our scene

Implementing player movement

Shooting behavior

Creating enemies

Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves

Particle systems for enemy explosion

Adding in sound effects/music

Adding in points, score, and wave numbers

Publishing the game

Summary

Challenges

2. Creating GUIs

2. Creating GUIs

Project overview

Project setup

Customizing the GUI

Pausing the game

Restarting the game

Creating an Options menu

Summary

Challenges

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

Project overview

Setting up the project

Tile-based level creation

Creating our player

Creating collectibles

Keeping score

Winning the game

Summary

Challenges

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

Project overview

The project setup

Exterior environment – terrain

Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass

Creating our player

Building the atmosphere

Creating a flashlight

Walking / flashlight bobbing animation

Summary

Challenges

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

Project overview

Project setup

Importing assets

Creating tiles

Placing tiles with grid snapping

Creating and placing props

Lightmapping quickstart

Summary

Challenges

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating the shooting behavior

Creating an enemy

Enemy movement

Damaging and killing enemies

Using controller input

Moving to other levels

Summary

Challenges

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

Project overview

Saving a high score

Level editor – introduction

Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime

Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Summary

Challenges

8. Finishing Touches

8. Finishing Touches

Project overview

Setting up the build settings

Customizing your exported project via the player settings

Building an installer for Windows

Summary

Challenges

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

Project overview

Project setup

Creating health bars

Adding in text

Working with buttons and anchors

Summary

Additional resources

Challenges

Index

Index

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Lightmapping quickstart

Lightmapping is the process of baking or precalculating the lighting on a texture to static objects to make the game run faster and allow us to get the most out of our projects.

This generally isn't done as an optimization until you have your entire level finished, but I think this is probably the best place to talk about it. If you prefer to wait, come back to this section when you are done with your level, as doing a lightmapping pass can take a long time:

Go to Edit | Render Settings, and set Ambient Light to Black, as we want to have all the light to be from our lighting.
Next, we will need to select all of our model files in the Models/Props and Models/Modular Pieces folders (not the prefabs). From there, check Generate Lightmap UVs from the Model tab, and then click on the Apply button.
Lightmapping only works with static objects, that is, objects that will not be moving. That's our level stuff for sure, so select our Level 01 parent object, and click on the Static...

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