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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Do you want to make the leap from being an everyday Unity developer to being a pro game developer? Then look no further! This book is your one-stop solution to creating mesmerizing games with lifelike features and amazing gameplay. This book focuses in some detail on a practical project with Unity, building a first-person game with many features. You'll delve into the architecture of a Unity game, creating expansive worlds, interesting render effects, and other features to make your games special. You will create individual game components, use efficient animation techniques, and implement collision and physics effectively. Specifically, we'll explore optimal techniques for importing game assets, such as meshes and textures; tips and tricks for effective level design; how to animate and script NPCs; how to configure and deploy to mobile devices; how to prepare for VR development; how to work with version control; and more. By the end of this book, you'll have developed sufficient competency in Unity development to produce fun games with confidence.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Creating a player camera

The camera object is, in many ways, the most important in any scene, because without the presence of at least one camera, the scene can't be rendered at all. Dead Keys will eventually feature multiple cameras, each with a dedicated purpose. However, let's focus on the main camera, that is, the player perspective in the scene now. For first person games, you can create a camera easily by dragging and dropping a First Person Controller from the Project panel into the scene, from the Characters asset package. However, for Dead Keys, we don't need that; our camera path is fixed as it moves through the level and the user doesn't need free-look controls with the mouse or W A S D keys. Consequently, we'll create a custom camera from the ground upwards.

Let's start by creating a camera object by navigating to GameObject | Camera from...