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Getting Started with Unity

By : Patrick Felicia
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Getting Started with Unity

By: Patrick Felicia

Overview of this book

<p>Unity is a game development engine which is fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows used to create interactive 3D content. Unity is best used for making great games that can deploy to numerous platforms.</p> <p>"Getting Started with Unity" guides you progressively through the necessary steps to create a survival game using Unity3D&rsquo;s built-in objects and components, JavaScript, animations with Mecanim, and some basic AI.</p> <p>In this book, you will be introduced to a wide range of the core features used for games developed with Unity3D, including the user interface and much more. Furthermore, you will also learn about essential aspects like transformations, scripting, navigation, and built-in controllers.</p> <p>Beginning with an introduction to the user interface, you will learn the necessary skills required to create a survival video game. Each section is a stepping-stone toward the completion of the final game. By the end of the book, you will have created an indoor level with enemies, AI, weapons, objects to collect, and all the logic to control the game.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Getting Started with Unity
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading Unity3D


We can download Unity3D from the Unity3D website (http://unity3d.com/unity/download/).

Before we download it, it is a good idea to check the requirements to make sure that our system (that is, software and hardware) is up-to-date. We can visit http://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements to check whether our system complies with the requirements. Once we have checked the requirements, we can download the latest version of Unity3D for either Mac OS (http://unity3d.com/unity/download/download-mac) or Windows (http://unity3d.com/unity/download/download-windows). Opening either of these URLs will start the download of Unity3D automatically.

While the latest version of Unity3D is available on the official website, it is also possible to download previous versions of Unity3D from the following link: http://unity3d.com/unity/download/archive. If we use this book as a support for a course, it may be the case that the college or university where we study may have a previous version installed in the labs, and we may want to work on the project we have created during class from home. Another reason for this is that when we open a Unity3D project with a new version of the software, we may not be able to reopen it with the previous version.

Once we have downloaded Unity3D, launch the installer.