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Unity 5.x By Example

By : Alan Thorn

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Unity 5.x By Example

3.7 (7)

By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.

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. The Coin Collection Game – Part 1

1. The Coin Collection Game – Part 1

Game design

Getting started – Unity and projects

Projects and project folders

Importing assets

Starting a level

Transformations and navigation

Scene building

Lighting and sky

Play testing and the Game tab

Adding a water plane

Adding a coin to collect

Summary

2. Project A – the Collection Game Continued

2. Project A – the Collection Game Continued

Creating a coin material

C# scripting in Unity

Counting coins

Collecting coins

Coins and prefabs

Timers and countdowns

Celebrations and fireworks!

Play testing

Building

Summary

3. Project B – the Space Shooter

3. Project B – the Space Shooter

Looking ahead – the completed project

Getting started with a space shooter

Creating a player object

Player input

Configuring the game camera

Bounds locking

Health

Death and particles

Enemies

Enemy spawning

Summary

4. Continuing the Space Shooter

4. Continuing the Space Shooter

Guns and gun turrets

Ammo prefabs

Ammo spawning

User controls

Scores and scoring – UI and text objects

Working with scores – scripting with text

Polishing

Testing and diagnosis

Building

Summary

5. Project C – a 2D Adventure

5. Project C – a 2D Adventure

A 2D Adventure – getting started

Importing assets

Creating an environment – getting started

Environment Physics

Creating a player

Scripting the player movement

Optimization

Summary

6. Continuing the 2D Adventure

6. Continuing the 2D Adventure

Moving platforms

Creating other scenes – levels 2 and 3

Kill zones

The UI health bar

Ammo and hazards

Gun turrets and ammo

NPCs and quests

Summary

7. Project D – Intelligent Enemies

7. Project D – Intelligent Enemies

An overview of the project

Getting started

Terrain construction

Navigation and navigation meshes

Building an NPC

Creating patrolling NPCs

Summary

8. Continuing with Intelligent Enemies

8. Continuing with Intelligent Enemies

Enemy AI – range of sight

An overview of Finite State Machines

The Patrol state

The Chase state

The Attack state

Summary

Index

Index

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Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The environment created thus far for the coin collection game has been assembled using only the mesh assets included with the native Prototyping package."

A block of code is set as follows:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Coin : MonoBehaviour
{

  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () {}
  
  // Update is called once per frame
  void Update () {}
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Coin : MonoBehaviour
 {
  // Use this for initialization
  void Start () {
    Debug.Log ("Object Created");
  }
  
  // Update is called once per frame
  void Update () {
  

  }
}

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "You'll need to create New Project."

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