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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Do you want to make the leap from being an everyday Unity developer to being a pro game developer? Then look no further! This book is your one-stop solution to creating mesmerizing games with lifelike features and amazing gameplay. This book focuses in some detail on a practical project with Unity, building a first-person game with many features. You'll delve into the architecture of a Unity game, creating expansive worlds, interesting render effects, and other features to make your games special. You will create individual game components, use efficient animation techniques, and implement collision and physics effectively. Specifically, we'll explore optimal techniques for importing game assets, such as meshes and textures; tips and tricks for effective level design; how to animate and script NPCs; how to configure and deploy to mobile devices; how to prepare for VR development; how to work with version control; and more. By the end of this book, you'll have developed sufficient competency in Unity development to produce fun games with confidence.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Animating the camera

Dead Keys needs a first-person camera that's effectively on rails. The camera must slowly follow a predetermined path through the scene; its staggered movement from one location to the next is a sign of player progress. So far, a set of specific waypoints have been created (in the previous section), defining locations the camera stops at on its journey to engage with the oncoming zombies.

To create this motion for the camera, multiple animations must be created, one for each journey between waypoints (one for A to B, another for B to C, then another for D to E, and so on). Before creating the animations, however, it's important to structure your object hierarchy for the camera, as needed. Changes to your object hierarchy after creating an animation can invalidate how the animation works. I've used several empty objects nested in parent-child...