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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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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.

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. Creating Your Game Concept

1. 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

2. Creating Characters

2. 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

3. Animating Your Characters

3. 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

4. Creating the Environment

4. Creating the Environment

Building terrain and wall models

Building rock models

Creating rock and wall textures

Building grass models

Creating the grass texture

Summary

5. Integrating Your Assets into the Game

5. Integrating Your Assets into the Game

Basic user interface of Unity

Importing environment assets

Importing character assets

Summary

6. Developing the Game Structure

6. 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

7. Creating Levels and Game Progression

7. Creating Levels and Game Progression

Creating character attributes

Adding in-game items and power-ups

Improving enemy AI

Adding save points

Summary

8. Post-Production and Visual FX

8. Post-Production and Visual FX

A basic particle system

Mist particles

Torch fire

Image FX

Quality settings

Summary

9. Deploying the Game

9. Deploying the Game

Build settings

Player Settings

Summary

Index

Index

Designing the user interface structure

Since we have already done the splash screen, let's dive into the main menu! The previous flow chart doesn't actually explain anything about how the main menu should function. Therefore, we need to design another flow chart to explain the structure of the main menu.

Our game is really simple, so we don't have many buttons on the menu—just simple start game and quit game buttons. By clicking on the different buttons, it will bring us to another user interface that does a different thing. We need to brainstorm all these details and put them into the flow chart.

After you have done that, we will move over to Unity again and start designing our main menu based on the preceding flow chart. First, create a new scene called MainMenu, because the name of the scene has to match the name specified in the Application.LoadLevel() function in our previous script.

The first thing we see right after the splash screen is a menu with two buttons: Start Game and Quit Game...

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