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Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials

By : Will Goldstone
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Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials

By: Will Goldstone

Overview of this book

Game Engines such as Unity are the power-tools behind the games we know and love. Unity is one of the most widely-used and best loved packages for game development and is used by everyone, from hobbyists to large studios, to create games and interactive experiences for the web, desktop, mobile, and console. With Unity’s intuitive, easy to learn toolset and this book – it’s never been easier to become a game developer. 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 – prototyping a simple scenario, and then creating a larger game. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating game mechanics you will learn everything you’ll need to get started with game development. 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. All of the concepts taught in this book are applicable to other types of game, however, 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 (21 chapters)
Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Player Input settings


While the Resolution Dialog window gives the standalone build player the ability to adjust the input controls of your game in the Input tab (see the following image), it is important to know that you can specify your own defaults for the control of your game in the Player Input settings. This is especially useful for web builds, as the player has no ability to change control settings when they load the game. Therefore, it is best that you set them up sensibly and provide information to the player through your in-game GUI.

In Unity, go to Edit | Project Settings | Input to open the Input Manager in the Inspector part of the interface. You will then be presented with the existing axes of control in Unity. The Size value simply states how many controls exist. By increasing this value, you can build in your own controls, or alternatively you can simply expand any of the existing ones by clicking on the gray arrow to the left of their name and adjusting the values therein...