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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

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Replacing the default UFPS HUD

We now have a Main menu, but our regular game level is showing a default UI. While it's fine for testing purposes, we may want to make something a little more custom for our finished product.

Start off by opening up any of the levels you've created that have the AdvancedPlayer prefab inside it (I chose Chapter7_MeshingYourLevel).
From there select your AdvancedPlayer and look at it from the Inspector. One of the components you'll see is the vp_SimpleHUD component.
This is what draws the screen in the default way and can be a good reference when it comes to accessing variables. However, we do not want to use it in this case.
Right-click on the vp_SimpleHUD component and select Remove Component.
Now that we've removed the previous HUD, it's time to add in our own. Create a Canvas by selecting GameObject | UI | Canvas.
For our purposes we're going to be using Slider as the basis of our lifebar. To do that with the Canvas selected, go to GameObject | UI | Slider.
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