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Building an FPS Game with Unity

By : John P. Doran, jamal seaton

3.9 (10)

Building an FPS Game with Unity

3.9 (10)

By: John P. Doran, jamal seaton

Overview of this book

Unity, available in free and pro versions, is one of the most popular third-party game engines available. It is a cross-platform game engine, making it easy to write your game once and then port it to PC, consoles, and even the web, making it a great choice for both indie and AAA developers. Building an FPS Game in Unity takes readers on an exploration of how to use Unity to create a 3D first person shooter (FPS) title, leveraging the powerful UFPS framework by VisionPunk and Prototype/ProBuilder 2.0 by ProCore3D. After some setting up, you will start by learning how to create custom weapons, prototype levels, create exterior and interior environments, and breathe life into our levels. We will then add polish to the levels. Finally, we will create a custom GUI and menus for our title to create a complete package.

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. Getting Started on an FPS

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Breathing Life into Levels

Prerequisites

Building an explosive barrel

Using triggers for doors

Creating an elevator

Summary

7. Adding Polish with ProBuilder

7. 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

8. 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

9. Finalizing Our Project

Prerequisites

Building the game in Unity

Building an installer for Windows

Building an installer for Windows

Summary

Index

Index

Working with ProBuilder – placing materials

Now that we have the materials to work with, let's learn how we can place them into the scene by making use of ProBuilder's Material tools.

There are many ways to apply material to objects and faces with ProBuilder. For the easiest, simply select an object in your scene and then drag-and-drop one of the materials on top of it. For instance, in the next screenshot I've taken the BrownBrick material and applied it onto one of the houses in our level.
As you can see, all of the faces of the object now are using the brick material instead of the default. However, we may not want to use the material on every single face of the building. In addition, we may also want the bricks to be bigger, because right now they look incredibly tiny.
Open up the ProBuilder window and change to Face mode. From there, select the faces on the top of the house that we will want to replace with a different texture; for now, some trim around the roof will do nicely.
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