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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

By : Alan Thorn

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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

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By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Do you want to make the leap from being an everyday Unity developer to being a pro game developer? Then look no further! This book is your one-stop solution to creating mesmerizing games with lifelike features and amazing gameplay. This book focuses in some detail on a practical project with Unity, building a first-person game with many features. You'll delve into the architecture of a Unity game, creating expansive worlds, interesting render effects, and other features to make your games special. You will create individual game components, use efficient animation techniques, and implement collision and physics effectively. Specifically, we'll explore optimal techniques for importing game assets, such as meshes and textures; tips and tricks for effective level design; how to animate and script NPCs; how to configure and deploy to mobile devices; how to prepare for VR development; how to work with version control; and more. By the end of this book, you'll have developed sufficient competency in Unity development to produce fun games with confidence.

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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Preparation and Asset Configuring

Preparation and Asset Configuring

Getting clear on design

Asset preparation

Asset importing for Dead Keys

Summary

Level Design and Structure

Level Design and Structure

Setting the scene with a skybox

Level building - Modular construction sets

Level building - Organization and structure

Level design - Tips and tricks

Level lighting - Preparation

Getting started with lightmapping

Baking lightmaps - Resolution and size

Baking lightmaps - Details

Light Probes

Lighting FAQ

Navigation mesh

Occlusion Culling

Creating a player camera

Particle systems

Music and audio

Summary

Player Controls - Movement

Player Controls - Movement

Player movement

Zombie combat

Creating player waypoints

Animating the camera

Configuring an animator graph

Working with animation - creating the navigator

Navigator GUI

Summary

Player Controls - Typing and Health

Player Controls - Typing and Health

Word combat

Creating a word list

Using Visual Studio Code

Creating a WordList class

Matching words

The Typer object

Progressing with the Typer class

Health and damage

Damage and feedback

Player score

Bonus items

Summary

Enemies and Artificial Intelligence

Enemies and Artificial Intelligence

Configuring the zombie character

Getting started with the zombie Prefab

Planning the zombie Artificial Intelligence

Developing state structure

Developing an NPC Animator Controller

Developing the Idle state

Developing the Chase state

Developing the Attack state and more

Developing the Dead state

Zombies and text input

Zombies and the Typer class

Activating enemies and camera paths

Working with Play mode

Summary

Project Management and Version Control

Project Management and Version Control

Project management

Applied project management using Trello

Collaboration with cloud storage

Version control using Git

Getting started with Git and GitKraken

Configuring Unity for version control

Reverting and discarding

Branches and branching

Conflicts and resolving

Git and the web

Pushing and pulling

Cloning

Summary

Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States

Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States

Data serialization

Player preferences - saving data

Player preferences - loading data

Player preferences - INI files

Saving data - XML files

Saving data - JSON files

Saving data - binary files

Saving data for Dead Keys

Summary

Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Stats and performance

Profiler and performance assessment

Optimization tips and tricks

Getting started with mobile development

Moving forward with mobile development

Building for Android

Building for VR (Virtual Reality)

Summary

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Moving forward with mobile development

Great work! After a long configuration process, you're now ready to start developing for Android within Unity. To start, you should change the Target Development platform within the Unity editor. To do this, select File | Build Settings... to access the Build Settings... dialog:

Accessing the Build Settings

From the Build Settings... dialog, select the Android platform from the platform list, and then choose the Switch Platform button. On selecting this, Unity rebuilds, reimports, and reconfigures all assets for the Target Platform:

Switch platforms

You can confirm the selected platform from the application title bar. The Target OS will be listed in brackets. This should read Android:

Confirming the target operating system

Depending on your application, target hardware, and Project Settings, your scenes may look different in the Game...

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