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Building Levels in Unity

By : Volodymyr Gerasimov

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Building Levels in Unity

5 (2)

By: Volodymyr Gerasimov

Overview of this book

The book is aimed at game artists with no past programming experience who are interested in designing levels in Unity. It does not assume detailed knowledge of similar game platforms.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Meet Unity

1. Meet Unity

Starting a project

Windows

The purpose of a Main Camera object

Creating primitives

Summary

2. Importing and Configuring Props

2. Importing and Configuring Props

Object manipulation

Components

Importing props into Unity

Configuring meshes

Prefabs

Object parenting

Configuring textures

What are Materials?

Using LODs in Unity

Collider

Summary

3. Shaping Landscape

3. Shaping Landscape

Creating terrain

Brushes

Creating the terrain using heightmaps

Level meshing

Object layers

The terrain texture

Water in Unity

Adding trees to the level

Learning to use the Unity Tree editor

Paint details

Customizing terrain settings

Skybox

Summary

4. Dealing with Basic Animations

4. Dealing with Basic Animations

Animation basics

Summary

5. Invite Your Characters to Unity

5. Invite Your Characters to Unity

Get your character ready

Exporting from Blender

Configuring a character in Unity

Summary

6. Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations

6. Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations

The animator controller

Animation states

Summary

7. Lighting Up the World

7. Lighting Up the World

Light component

Light types

Ambient light

Global Illumination

Lightmapping

Bringing lights into the level

Light probes

Reflection probes

Continuous baking

Projectors

Lighting effects

Summary

8. Bringing the Sound

8. Bringing the Sound

Audio sources and receivers

Introduction to audio mixer

Filters and reverb zones

Summary

9. Exploring the Particle System

9. Exploring the Particle System

What are particles?

The particle editor

Creating a waterfall

Coin particles

Summary

10. Final Editing and Build

10. Final Editing and Build

Rigidbodies

Project settings

Scene configuration

Level loading and streaming

Level loading limitations

Publishing the level

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 3. Shaping Landscape

It's about time we take that greyblock we built earlier, infuse it with imported assets, and build an environment around it, while also being introduced to the native Unity tools that will help us with the following:

Terrain creation
Terrain sculpting, painting, and texturing
Terrain creation using heightmaps
Using Unity water
Learning Unity Tree editor
Adding foliage
Terrain settings
Adding skyboxes

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to create your own exterior level and enhance it with forests, ponds, and foliage.

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