Unity 3 Game Development HOTSHOT

Unity 3 Game Development HOTSHOT

By : Jate Wittayabundit

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Unity 3 Game Development HOTSHOT

By: Jate Wittayabundit

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Overview of this book

Unity 3d is the game engine of choice for creating professional looking games at no cost. Its combination of powerful tools and outstanding community support make it the natural choice for experienced and aspiring game developers. Unity3D Game Development Hotshot will show you how to exploit the full array of Unity3Dtechnology in order to create an advanced gaming experience for the user. It has eight exciting and challenging projects with step- by-step explanations, diagrams, screenshots, and downloadable materials. Every project is designed to push your Unity skills to the very limits and beyond. You will create a hero/heroine for a role playing game. Create a menu for the RPG game allowing you to customize your character with powerups, armor, and weapons. You will shade, model, rig, and animate your hero/heroine. The end result will be a  character on the level of Final Fantasy, far superior to a simple sprite. Now for some damage - rocket launchers! Typically the most powerful weapons in any first person shooter, you will create a rocket launcher that has fire and smoke particles and most importantly causes splash damage for that all important area effect. Create AI controlled enemies for your hero/heroine to eliminate with the rocket launcher. Forge  a destructible  interactive world so if the rocket launchers miss their target they will at least cause significant damage to the surrounding environment. Learn to save and load your game so you can take a break from the action for life’s necessities like going to the bathroom. Incorporate social gaming by uploading scores online so everyone can see the carnage.

Unity 3 Game Development HOTSHT

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Develop a Sprite and Platform Game

Mission briefing

Creating a camera and a level

Creating a 2D character

Creating CharacterControl class and SpriteManager class

Jumping and physics

Creating a key and door

Adding a sound and replay button

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Create a Menu for an RPG Game—Add Powerups, Weapons, and Armor

Mission briefing

Custom skin with GUI Skin

Creating a menu object

Creating a status tab

Creating an inventory tab

Creating an equipment tab

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Model and Shade your Hero/Heroine

Mission briefing

Exporting from 3D Studio Max

Shader programming—Diffuse and bump (normal) map

Shader programming—Ambient and specular light

Shader programming—Rim light and toon ramp

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Add Character Control and Animation to our Hero/Heroine

Mission briefing

Setting up character animation and level

Creating the character controller and built-in script

Creating a custom character control script

Creating CrossFade animation

Creating a third-person camera to follow our character

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Build a Rocket Launcher!

Mission briefing

Setting up the character with the first-person controller prefab

Creating the New3PSController and MouseLook_JS scripts

Creating the rocket launcher and scope target

Creating the rockets and particles

Creating the rocket bullet UI

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Create Smart AI

Mission briefing

Creating the waypoint and gizmos

Creating an enemy AI

Creating the enemy movement with AIController script

Creating a hit-point UI

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Forge a Destructible and Interactive Virtual World

Mission briefing

Optimizing the AIController script

Creating a ragdoll

Creating a destructible wall

Creating a rockslide and trigger area

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Let the World See the Carnage! Save, Load, and Post High Scores

Mission briefing

Creating a high score menu

Saving and loading the local high score

Getting XML data from the server

Posting and loading high scores to the server

Game over-Wrapping it up

Are you ready to go gung ho? A Hotshot challenge

Important Functions

Awake

Start

Update

OnGUI

Coroutines and Yield

Major Differences between C# and Unity JavaScript

Unity Script Directives

Type names

Variable declaration

Variable with Dynamic Type Resolution

Multi-dimensional array declaration

Character literals not supported

Class declarations

Limited interface support

Generics

The foreach keyword

The new keyword

YieldInstruction and coroutine

Casting

Properties with getters/setters

Changing Struct properties by value VS by reference

Function/method definitions

Reference

Shaders and Cg/HLSL Programming

Index

Customer Reviews

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Game over-Wrapping it up

In this chapter, we just created the Waypoints for the enemy to follow. We also created the enemy AI that can jump, run towards the player, walk, and stop for a certain time—by creating the AIController script. This script used the mix of CharacterControl script from Project 4, The Hero/Heroine Part II—Animation and Controls, and New3PSController script from the Project 5, Creating a Rocket Launcher.

We also learned more about the Gizmos() function to display the visual of our Waypoints empty game object by using Gizmo.DrawIcon(), Gizmo.DrawLine(), and Gizmo.DrawWireSphere().

Finally, we learned how to use the GUI.BeginGroup() function to mask and show the hit-point UI object for the player and the enemy.

So, let's take a look at the following screenshot to see what we have done so far: