Building an FPS Game with Unity

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Building an FPS Game with Unity

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Building an FPS Game with Unity

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Overview of this book

Building an FPS Game with Unity

Building an FPS Game with Unity

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started on an FPS

Getting Started on an FPS

Project creation

Getting started with the Asset Store

Installing Prototype

File organization

Customizing Unity's layout

Building Custom Weapons

Building Custom Weapons

Setting up a testbed

Getting models/sounds for weapons

Building our weapon – the mesh

Creating a UnitBank

Creating the weapon

Customizing our weapon's properties

Prototyping Levels with Prototype

Prototyping Levels with Prototype

Creating geometry

Building a doorway

Duplicating rooms / creating a hallway

Preventing falls - collision

Adding stairways

Coloring your world

Creating Exterior Environments

Creating Exterior Environments

Introduction to Terrain

Creating the Terrain

Adding color to our Terrain – textures

Adding details – grass

Building the atmosphere – Skyboxes and Fog

Building Encounters

Building Encounters

Adding a simple turret enemy

Integrating an AI system – RAIN

Integrating an AI system – Shooter AI

Spawning enemies with the help of a trigger

Spawning multiple enemies at once

Cleaning up dead AI

Placing healthpacks/ammo

Breathing Life into Levels

Breathing Life into Levels

Building an explosive barrel

Using triggers for doors

Creating an elevator

Adding Polish with ProBuilder

Adding Polish with ProBuilder

Upgrading from Prototype to ProBuilder

Creating material

Working with ProBuilder – placing materials

Meshing your levels

Creating a Custom GUI

Creating a Custom GUI

Creating a main menu: part 1 – adding text

Creating a main menu: part 2 – adding buttons

Creating a main menu: part 3 – button functionality

Replacing the default UFPS HUD

Finalizing Our Project

Finalizing Our Project

Building the game in Unity

Building an installer for Windows

Building an installer for Windows

Index

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Building the atmosphere – Skyboxes and Fog

Now the base of our world is created. Let's add some effects to make the game more visually appealing.

The first part of creating the atmosphere is to add something to the sky. Now, in Unity 5, we are given a Skybox by default, but we will be using one of our own that's provided by UFPS. Skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make the area seem bigger than it really is by putting an image in the areas that are currently being filled with the light blue color, staying still while we move just like the sky doesn't move when we go around because it's so far away.

The reason we say Skybox is because we save six textures (one for each side of a cube). Game engines such as unreal have skydomes that do the same thing just with a hemisphere instead of a cube:

To modify the skybox, we can go to Window | Lighting. Once in there, click on the Scene button to look at the lighting properties of the current scene.
In the Project tab, click on the search bar...