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Unity Game Development Essentials

By : Will Goldstone
Book Image

Unity Game Development Essentials

By: Will Goldstone

Overview of this book

Game engines are central to the video games we know and love. From the artwork to the mathematics that underpin the frames onscreen, the engine calls the shots. Aside from offering one of the leading 3D game engines, Unity also provides a superlative development tool ñ a tool that can produce professional standard games for Mac, PC, and the Unity Web Player. This book is a complete exercise in game development covering environments, physics, sound, particles, and much more, to get you up and working with Unity quickly. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games before getting to grips with development in Unity itself. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating simple game elements you will learn everything you'll need to get started with game development for the PC, Mac, and Web. This book is designed to cover a set of easy to follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. By introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you'll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Unity Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Island level fade-in


In order to ease the player into the environment when they enter the game, we'll create a fade-in at the start of our actual game level using a GUI texture that covers the screen and is faded out over time using the Lerp technique we have just learned.

Double-click the icon of the Island Level to open that scene. Now, in the Volcano folder you imported earlier, you'll find a texture file called white. This texture, a flat white color created in Photoshop, is of size 64x64 pixels; this may sound rather small to cover the screen but as it is simply a flat color, it needn't be large — we will simply stretch it to the size of the screen.

Select the texture now and in the Inspector, deselect Generate Mip Maps in the Texture Importer component to stop Unity from rendering smaller versions of it for 3D use then press the Apply button at the bottom to confirm the change. We will use this texture with further UnityGUI and Lerp scripting to stretch it to full screen and fade...