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Building Levels in Unity

By : Volodymyr Gerasimov
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Building Levels in Unity

By: Volodymyr Gerasimov

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Building Levels in Unity
Volodymyr Gerasimov
Jun, 2015 | 274 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Levels in Unity
Building Levels in Unity
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Meet Unity
Meet Unity
Starting a project
Windows
The purpose of a Main Camera object
Creating primitives
Summary
2
Importing and Configuring Props
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
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
Dealing with Basic Animations
Animation basics
Summary
5
Invite Your Characters to Unity
Invite Your Characters to Unity
Get your character ready
Exporting from Blender
Configuring a character in Unity
Summary
6
Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations
Using Mecanim for Advanced Animations
The animator controller
Animation states
Summary
7
Lighting Up the World
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
Bringing the Sound
Audio sources and receivers
Introduction to audio mixer
Filters and reverb zones
Summary
9
Exploring the Particle System
Exploring the Particle System
What are particles?
The particle editor
Creating a waterfall
Coin particles
Summary
10
Final Editing and Build
Final Editing and Build
Rigidbodies
Project settings
Scene configuration
Level loading and streaming
Level loading limitations
Publishing the level
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Volodymyr Gerasimov

Reviewers

Dylan Agis

Attilio Carotenuto

Javier García-Lajara Herrero

Ryan Watkins

Commissioning Editor

Nadeem N. Bagban

Acquisition Editor

Meeta Rajani

Content Development Editor

Sumeet Sawant

Technical Editors

Vivek Arora

Deepti Tuscano

Copy Editors

Puja Lalwani

Merilyn Pereira

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Shweta H. Birwatkar

Proofreader

Safis Editing

Indexer

Tejal Soni

Production Coordinator

Manu Joseph

Cover Work

Manu Joseph

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