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Building Levels in Unity

Building Levels in Unity

By : Volodymyr Gerasimov
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Building Levels in Unity

Building Levels in Unity

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By: Volodymyr Gerasimov
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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Meet Unity
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1. Meet Unity
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Starting a project
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Windows
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The purpose of a Main Camera object
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Creating primitives
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Summary
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2. Importing and Configuring Props
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2. Importing and Configuring Props
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Object manipulation
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Components
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Importing props into Unity
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Configuring meshes
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Prefabs
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Object parenting
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Configuring textures
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What are Materials?
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Using LODs in Unity
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Collider
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Summary
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3. Shaping Landscape
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3. Shaping Landscape
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Creating terrain
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Brushes
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Creating the terrain using heightmaps
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Level meshing
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Object layers
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The terrain texture
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Water in Unity
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Adding trees to the level
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Learning to use the Unity Tree editor
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Paint details
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Customizing terrain settings
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Skybox
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Summary
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4. Dealing with Basic Animations
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4. Dealing with Basic Animations
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Animation basics
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Summary
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5. Invite Your Characters to Unity
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5. Invite Your Characters to Unity
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Get your character ready
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Exporting from Blender
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Configuring a character in Unity
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Summary
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6. Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations
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6. Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations
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The animator controller
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Animation states
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Summary
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7. Lighting Up the World
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7. Lighting Up the World
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Light component
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Light types
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Ambient light
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Global Illumination
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Lightmapping
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Bringing lights into the level
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Light probes
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Reflection probes
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Continuous baking
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Projectors
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Lighting effects
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8. Bringing the Sound
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8. Bringing the Sound
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Audio sources and receivers
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Introduction to audio mixer
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Filters and reverb zones
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9. Exploring the Particle System
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9. Exploring the Particle System
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What are particles?
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The particle editor
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Creating a waterfall
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Coin particles
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Summary
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10. Final Editing and Build
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10. Final Editing and Build
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Rigidbodies
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Project settings
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Scene configuration
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Level loading and streaming
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Level loading limitations
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Publishing the level
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Index
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Index

Chapter 7. Lighting Up the World

If there is one aspect to be named, that has the most effect on the level, it would have to be lighting. It plays a major role in setting the mood, directing players, and allowing us to see things in a pitch-dark environment. Working with lighting isn't as simple as trying to imitate the real-world setup. It's a process that involves a lot of witty tricks and optimization techniques, understanding of how the lighting works in the real world and what's going on under the hood of the rendering engine.

Throughout the chapter, we will look into the following topics:

  • Light types, their functionality and application
  • Global Illumination
  • Light's influence on dynamic and static objects
  • Shadows
  • Emissive materials
  • Baking Lightmaps
  • Light probing
  • Reflection probes
  • Projectors
  • Light cookies
  • Halos and lenses

Covering every tiny detail might probably take a book of its own, and definitely beyond the scope of an introduction. Instead, we will look at components...

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