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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By : Robert Wells
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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By: Robert Wells

Overview of this book

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions. The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development. By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Importing assets

As with all of the previous projects, there will be some assets we don't create ourselves. For this project, we will import packages for the terrain and character models as creating them is not crucial for understanding AI. We'll import those assets into an empty project:

  1. Create a new 3D project. The details on this are covered in Chapter 1, Exploring the Fundamentals of Unity.
  2. Navigate to the UAS online at https://assetstore.unity.com.
  3. Search for Low-Poly Simple Nature Pack. This pack will become the terrain for our AI agents.
  4. Select Add to My Assets as shown in Figure 8.2:

    Figure 8.2 - Adding the terrain pack to your asset collection

    We also need a terrifying enemy that will patrol and chase the player—striking fear into anyone that enters its territory. Once again, we'll use a premade asset for this, although you could create your own by using the 3D modeling software.

  5. In the UAS, search for Chick Mega Toon Series and...