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Unity Game Development Essentials

By : Will Goldstone
Book Image

Unity Game Development Essentials

By: Will Goldstone

Overview of this book

Game engines are central to the video games we know and love. From the artwork to the mathematics that underpin the frames onscreen, the engine calls the shots. Aside from offering one of the leading 3D game engines, Unity also provides a superlative development tool ñ a tool that can produce professional standard games for Mac, PC, and the Unity Web Player. This book is a complete exercise in game development covering environments, physics, sound, particles, and much more, to get you up and working with Unity quickly. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games before getting to grips with development in Unity itself. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating simple game elements you will learn everything you'll need to get started with game development for the PC, Mac, and Web. This book is designed to cover a set of easy to follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. By introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you'll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Unity Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Creating the battery prefab


In this section, we will import a downloaded model of a battery and turn it into a Unity prefab — a data template that we can use to make multiple copies of the model with predetermined settings applied. If you've worked with Adobe Flash before, then you might compare this idea to the MovieClip concept, wherein you can create many identical copies, or modify individual copies post creation.

Download, import, and place

To begin creating the puzzle, you'll need the battery asset package which is available in the code bundle provided on packtpub.com (www.packtpub.com/files/code/8181_Code.zip). Locate the package called batteries.unitypackage from the extracted files. Once you have done this, switch back to Unity and go to Assets | Import Package. Browse to the location you downloaded the package to, and select it as the file to import. You will be presented with a list of the assets inside this package in the Import Assets dialog window, then click on Import to...