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

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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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About the Author

John P. Doran is a technical game designer, who has been creating games for over 10 years. He has worked on an assortment of games in teams from just himself to over 70 students, mod, and professional projects.

He previously worked at LucasArts on Star Wars 1313 as a game design intern. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, with a bachelor of science in game design.

John is currently a designer in DigiPen's research and development branch in Singapore. He is also the lead instructor of the DigiPen-Ubisoft Campus Game Programming Program, instructing graduate-level students in an intensive, advanced-level game programming curriculum. In addition to this, he also tutors and assists students on various subjects while giving lectures on C#, C++, Unreal, Unity, game design, and more.

In addition to this title, he is the author of Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook, Unity Game Development Blueprints, Getting Started with UDK, UDK Game Development, and Mastering UDK Game Development, and also the co-author of UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, all by Packt Publishing. More information on him can be found on his website (http://johnpdoran.com/).