Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Overview of this book

In the wake of the indie game development scene, game development tools are no longer luxury items costing up to millions of dollars but are now affordable by smaller teams or even individual developers. Among these cutting-edge applications, Blender and Unity stand out from the crowd as a powerful combination that allows small-to-no budget indie developers or hobbyists alike to develop games that they have always dreamt of creating. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover designing the game concept, constructing the gameplay, creating the characters and environment, implementing game logic and basic artificial intelligence, and finally deploying the game for others to play. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the skills required to develop your dream game from scratch.

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Creating Your Game Concept

Job roles in game development

Gameplay design

Writing the game's story

Choosing a visual style

The characters concept

The environment concept

Summary

Creating Characters

Downloading Blender

Creating the monster's 3D model

Unwrapping the monster's UV map

Creating the monster's texture

Creating the player character's 3D model

Unwrapping the player character's UV map

Summary

Animating Your Characters

What is character rigging?

Creating a monster's armature

Creating the player character's armature

Weight painting

Animating characters

The 12 basic principles of animation

Summary

Creating the Environment

Building terrain and wall models

Building rock models

Creating rock and wall textures

Building grass models

Creating the grass texture

Summary

Integrating Your Assets into the Game

Basic user interface of Unity

Importing environment assets

Importing character assets

Summary

Developing the Game Structure

Introduction to game structure design

Planning the game flow

Designing the user interface structure

Player inputs and character movements

Creating basic artificial intelligence

Summary

Creating Levels and Game Progression

Creating character attributes

Adding in-game items and power-ups

Improving enemy AI

Adding save points

Summary

Post-Production and Visual FX

A basic particle system

Summary

Deploying the Game

Build settings

Player Settings

Summary

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

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3 star

2 star

1 star

Creating the monster's texture

Once you're happy with the UV map, you can now remove the checker texture and replace it with a blank texture by clicking on the + New button and pick Blank as the Generated Type. What I'm trying to do now is to bake the soft shadow that we usually call the ambient occlusion onto the blank texture. This AO map not only serves as a guideline for texture painting but also makes the final texture look more realistic. This step is not necessary depending on what style you're trying to do.

On the Properties window, switch over to the World tab and check Ambient Occlusion. Then, scroll down a little bit and you will see the Gather category. Change the Samples value from 5 to 15.

Next, go to the Render tab and open up the Bake category. Change Bake mode to Ambient Occlusion and check Normalized. The normalized setting will make the AO map look brighter and clean.

Once you're done with the settings, click on the Bake button and watch the magic happen!

Although the ambient...

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Overview of this book

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Creating the monster's texture