Book Image

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building a Game with Unity and Blender
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building grass models


When I was designing the level concept for this game demo, I thought it would be better to have something to break the singularity of having only one type of hue in the level due to the fact that in an underground setting, there aren't many props that we can place to the level beside rocks. Well, we can place crystals all over the level, which will emit different colors of light, but that sounds like a lazy solution to me; besides, aren't most other games out there doing the same thing? I thought we could go for something different, so instead of shiny crystals, I decided to place a bunch of grass around the level instead.

First of all, grass can still grow underground provided that there are holes on the ceiling that allow the sunlight to enter underground. Second, this allows us to play around with the lighting to make the underground level look more interesting, and finally, by combining a green color with brown, we achieved color harmonic for this level, and that...