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Building an FPS Game with Unity

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Building an FPS Game with Unity
Oct, 2015 | 326 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building an FPS Game with Unity
Building an FPS Game with Unity
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started on an FPS
Getting Started on an FPS
Prerequisites
Project creation
Getting started with the Asset Store
Installing Prototype
File organization
Customizing Unity's layout
Summary
2
Building Custom Weapons
Building Custom Weapons
Prerequisites
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
Summary
3
Prototyping Levels with Prototype
Prototyping Levels with Prototype
Prerequisites
Creating geometry
Building a doorway
Duplicating rooms / creating a hallway
Preventing falls - collision
Adding stairways
Coloring your world
Summary
4
Creating Exterior Environments
Creating Exterior Environments
Prerequisites
Introduction to Terrain
Creating the Terrain
Adding color to our Terrain – textures
Adding water
Adding trees
Adding details – grass
Building the atmosphere – Skyboxes and Fog
Summary
5
Building Encounters
Building Encounters
Prerequisites
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
Summary
6
Breathing Life into Levels
Breathing Life into Levels
Prerequisites
Building an explosive barrel
Using triggers for doors
Creating an elevator
Summary
7
Adding Polish with ProBuilder
Adding Polish with ProBuilder
Prerequisites
Upgrading from Prototype to ProBuilder
Creating material
Working with ProBuilder – placing materials
Meshing your levels
Summary
8
Creating a Custom GUI
Creating a Custom GUI
Prerequisites
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
Summary
9
Finalizing Our Project
Finalizing Our Project
Prerequisites
Building the game in Unity
Building an installer for Windows
Building an installer for Windows
Summary
Index
Index

Adding a simple turret enemy

To start off with, UFPS already comes built in with an example enemy that we can work with, that is, a turret that will fire at a player if they get too close. More importantly, the turret is an example of how to damage a player, as well as how the player can damage objects. This will be quite useful once we create enemies. Let's take a look at how it's used in an example level:

  1. From the Project tab, go to the UFPS/Base/Content/Levels/SkyCity folder and then-double click on the UFPS_SkyCity.unity file to open it.

    If you haven't gotten a chance to play this demo map yet, give it a try so that you're more familiar with the stuff that we will be talking about.

    Note

    Notice that in certain areas, there will be security cameras on the walls and ceiling that will fire at you if you come close to them in their range. These are the first things that we are going to look into.

  2. The turrets that show up in this level are named SecurityGun. So, with this information, we can go...

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