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

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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

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

Quality settings

Last but not least, it's also very important to set the quality settings for our game in order to balance visual quality and performance. Unity allows us to pick a different set of quality settings for different platforms. You can open up the QualitySettings window by going to Edit | Project Settings | Quality.

As you can see, all the mobile platforms have been set to the Simple quality level compared to the rest, which are set to Fantastic or Good. You can change the default quality level of each platform by clicking on the small arrow below the quality levels. You can still change the quality level inside the game provided that you have a quality settings UI for the players to do so.

Each quality level contains a set of settings that affect how Unity handles the rendering process. The settings include:

Pixel Light Count: The maximum number of pixel lights when forward rendering is used.
Texture Quality: This allows you to choose the maximum resolution of the textures used...

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Overview of this book

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