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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've explored the basics of developing your first environment. Beginning with nothing but a flat plane, you have now created a completely explorative island terrain in a short space of time. We've also looked at lighting and sound, two core principles that you'll apply in every kind of game project you encounter.

Remember, you can always return to the terrain tools covered in this chapter at any time in order to add more detail to your terrain - we will do this in chapter 10 - Performance tweaks, optimisation and final touches. Once you feel more confident with sound, we will also return to adding further audio sources to the island later in the book.

As you continue to work through this book, you'll discover all types of additional nuances that you can bring to environments in order to further suspend disbelief in the player.

We'll be looking at adding a dynamic feel to our island when we look at the use of particles, adding campfires, and even a plume of smoke and...