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Getting Started with Unity 5

Getting Started with Unity 5

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Getting Started with Unity 5

Getting Started with Unity 5

2.7 (7)
By: Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer interested in learning Unity 3D from scratch and becoming familiar with its core features, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Unity 3D is required.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Downloading and Installing Unity
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Downloading and Installing Unity
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Game engine overview
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Unity – past, present, and future
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The case for Unity
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System requirements
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Downloading Unity 
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Installing Unity
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Summary
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The Unity Interface
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The Unity Interface
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Screen real estate 
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Menu
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Scene view
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Game view
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Project window
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Hierarchy window
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Inspector window 
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Toolbar
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Layouts
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Summary
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Designing the Game
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Designing the Game
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Game concept
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Game characters
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Gameplay
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The difficulty balance
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Project organization 
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Summary
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Creating Our Terrain
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Creating Our Terrain
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Creating the terrain
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Shaping the terrain
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Painting the terrain
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Adding water
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Adding vegetation
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Lights, Cameras, and Shadows
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Lights, Cameras, and Shadows
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Working with cameras
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Using multiple cameras
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Working with lighting
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Implementing reflection probes
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Understanding shadows
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Creating and Importing 3D Objects for Our Game
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Creating and Importing 3D Objects for Our Game
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Understanding assets and GameObjects
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Creating 3D objects in Unity
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Using the Unity Asset Store
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Incorporating custom assets in our game
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Working with imported assets
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Implementing Our Player Character
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Implementing Our Player Character
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Working with Unity's standard asset package
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Importing the game character
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Configuring a player controller
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Fine-tuning our character
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Animating our player character
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Terraforming the terrain for our Cucumber Man
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Implementing Our Non-Player Characters
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Implementing Our Non-Player Characters
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Understanding the non-player characters
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Importing the non-player characters into our game
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Animating our non-player characters 
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Incorporating the non-player characters into our game
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Terraforming the terrain for our Cucumber Beetles 
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Adding cucumber patches to our terrain 
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Adding cucumbers to our terrain
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Scripting our non-player characters
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Adding a Heads-Up Display
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Adding a Heads-Up Display
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Designing our Heads-Up Display
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Working with a canvas
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Creating a mini-map
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Scripting for dynamic content
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Scripting Our Points System
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Scripting Our Points System
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Collecting cherries from trees
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Adding the cherry-throwing capability
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Adding points based on cherry collection and combat hits
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Scripting Victory and Defeat
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Scripting Victory and Defeat
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Designing victory and defeat conditions
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Updating the player's health
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Implementing victory
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Implementing defeat
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Updating the HUD with lives remaining
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Scripting the player character's respawning 
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Adding Audio and Visual Effects to Our Game
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Adding Audio and Visual Effects to Our Game
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Discovering Unity's audio system
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Planning our game's audio
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Implementing our game's audio
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Introduction to Unity's lights and shadows
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Discovering Unity's special effects
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Adding visual effects to our game
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Optimizing Our Game for Deployment
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Optimizing Our Game for Deployment
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Using the Profiler window
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Optimizing scripts
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Optimizing graphics rendering
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Additional optimizations 
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Creating builds
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Virtual Reality
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Virtual Reality
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Welcome to virtual reality
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Enabling virtual reality in Unity
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Starter content
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Additional environmental features

We are now ready to enhance our terrain with additional features. First, we will add a natural bridge, and then we'll selectively plant trees. We'll also add water to the center of our terrain and create the sky.

Natural bridge

There are several ways to build a bridge for our game. We want the player to be able to walk from one side of the game map to the other. The approach we'll take is to use a textured geometric shape. Here are the steps:

  1. Use the transform tools in the Scene view to zoom into the area you want to place the bridge. I will put it in the center of the terrain.
  2. Select the GameObject drop-down menu, select the 3D Object, and click on Cube.
  3. Right-click on the cube in the Hierarchy view and select Rename. Rename the cube as Bridge.
  4. Use the transform tool to increase the width and length of the cube. A scale of 12, 5, 58 works nicely.
  5. Use the translate tool to move the bridge in place. Be sure to place both ends just beneath the surface...
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