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Getting Started with Unity 5

Getting Started with Unity 5

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Getting Started with Unity 5

Getting Started with Unity 5

2.9 (27)
By: Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer interested in learning Unity 3D from scratch and becoming familiar with its core features, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Unity 3D is required.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Jiggy with the Unity Interface
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1. Getting Jiggy with the Unity Interface
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Why Unity?
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Getting your hands on Unity
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Projects
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Layouts
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Views
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Transform tools
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Cameras
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Summary
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2. Creating the Game Environment
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2. Creating the Game Environment
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Game design
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Terrain
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Additional environmental features
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3. Working with Assets
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3. Working with Assets
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Assets
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Asset packages
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Unity Asset Store
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Adding assets to your game
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Using Blender to create assets for your game
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4. Animating the Game Characters
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4. Animating the Game Characters
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Animation basics
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Character controllers
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Animating player characters
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Previewing animations
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Creating animation clips
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5. Scripting the Game
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5. Scripting the Game
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C# programming primer
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Using MonoDevelop
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Scripting with C# in Unity
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Scripting our game
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6. Adding a Graphical User Interface
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6. Adding a Graphical User Interface
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An overview of GUI
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Unity 5's UI system
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HUD
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Mini-maps
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Game navigation
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7. Polishing and Optimizing the Game
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7. Polishing and Optimizing the Game
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Sight and sound
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Rendering options
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Optimizing scripts
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8. What's Next?
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8. What's Next?
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Improving our game
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Project management
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Development concepts
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Advanced topics
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Index
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Index

An overview of GUI

A GUI is a collection of visual components such as text, buttons, and images that facilitates a user's interaction with software. GUIs are also used to provide feedback to players. In the case of our game, the GUI allows players to interact with our game. Without a GUI, the user would have no visual indication of how to use the game. Imagine software without any on-screen indicators of how to use the software. The following image shows how early user interfaces were anything but intuitive:

We use GUIs all the time and might not pay too close attention to them, unless they are poorly designed. If you've ever tried to figure out how to use an app on your Smartphone or could not figure out how to perform a specific action with desktop software, you've most likely encountered a poorly designed GUI.

Functions of a GUI

Our goal is to create a GUI for our game that both informs the user and allows interaction between the game and the user. To that end, GUIs have two primary purposes...

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