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Mastering Unity 5.x

By : Alan Thorn
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Mastering Unity 5.x

By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Mastering Unity 5.x is for developers wishing to optimize the features of Unity 5.x. With an in-depth focus on a practical project, learn all about Unity architecture and impressive animation techniques. With this book, produce fun games with confidence.

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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Unity 5.x
Mastering Unity 5.x
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
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1
Preparation and Asset-Configuring
Preparation and Asset-Configuring
Getting clear on design
Asset preparation
Asset importing for Dead Keys
Summary
2
Level Design and Structure
Level Design and Structure
Setting the scene with a skybox
Level building - modular construction sets
Level building - organization and structure
Level design - tips and tricks
Level lighting - preparation
Getting started with lightmapping
Baking lightmaps - resolution and size
Baking lightmaps - details
Light Probes
Lighting FAQ
Navigation mesh
Occlusion Culling
Creating a player camera
Particle systems
Music and audio
Summary
3
Player Controls - Movement
Player Controls - Movement
Player movement
Zombie combat
Creating player waypoints
Animating the camera
Configuring an animator graph
Working with animation - creating the navigator
Navigator GUI
Summary
4
Player Controls - Typing and Health
Player Controls - Typing and Health
Word combat
Creating a word list
Using Visual Studio Code
Creating a WordList class
Matching words
The Typer object
Progressing with the Typer class
Health and damage
Damage and feedback
Player score
Bonus items
Summary
5
Enemies and Artificial Intelligence
Enemies and Artificial Intelligence
Configuring the zombie character
Getting started with the zombie Prefab
Planning the zombie Artificial Intelligence
Developing state structure
Developing an NPC Animator Controller
Developing the Idle state
Developing the Chase state
Developing the Attack state and more
Developing the Dead state
Zombies and text input
Zombies and the Typer class
Activating enemies and camera paths
Working with Play mode
Summary
6
Project Management and Version Control
Project Management and Version Control
Project Management
Applied Project Management using Trello
Collaboration with cloud storage
Version control using Git
Getting started with Git and GitKraken
Configuring Unity for version control
Reverting and discarding
Branches and branching
Conflicts and resolving
Git and the Web
Pushing and pulling
Cloning
Summary
7
Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States
Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States
Data Serialization
Player preferences - saving data
Player preferences - loading data
Player preferences - INI files
Saving data - XML files
Saving data - JSON files
Saving data - binary files
Saving data for Dead Keys
Summary
8
Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More
Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More
Stats and performance
Profiler and performance assessment
Optimization tips and tricks
Getting started with mobile development
Moving forwards with mobile development
Building for Android
Building for VR (Virtual Reality)
Summary

Moving forwards with mobile development

Great work! After a long configuration process, you're now ready to start developing for Android within Unity. To start, you should change the Target Development platform within the Unity editor. To do this, select File | Build Settings... to access the Build Settings... dialog.

Accessing the Build Settings...

From the Build Settings... dialog, select the Android platform from the platform list, and then choose the Switch Platform button. On selecting this, Unity rebuilds, re-imports, and re-configures all assets for the Target Platform.

Switch platforms

You can confirm the selected platform from the application title bar. The Target OS will be listed in brackets. This should read Android.

Confirming the target operating system

Depending on your application, target hardware, and Project Settings, your scenes may look different in the Game and Scene tab, as a result of rendering capabilities and supported rendering modes for the target hardware. In...

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