Unity 4.x game development by example beginner's guide
This is a practical and light-hearted guide to get to grips with creating your first games, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step tutorials using the award winning Unity engine.If you've ever wanted to enter the world of independent game development but have no prior knowledge of programming or gam...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing
2013.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed |
| Colección: | Learn by doing: less theory more results
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628097206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- A word about the third edition
- Your future as a game developer
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Downloading the color images of this book
- Downloading the example code
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. That's One Fancy Hammer!
- Introducing Unity 3D
- The engine, the tool, and the all-weather tires
- Unity takes over the world
- Why choose Unity?
- Why burn this book and run away screaming?
- Browser-based 3D - welcome to the future
- Time for action - install the Unity Web Player
- Welcome to Unity 3D!
- What can I build with Unity?
- FusionFall
- Completely hammered
- Should we try to build FusionFall?
- Another option
- Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
- Fewer features, more promises
- Maybe we should build Off-Road Velociraptor Safari?
- I bent my Wooglie
- Big Fun Racing
- Diceworks
- Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
- Showcase Showdown
- Unity Technologies - "Made with Unity" page
- Kongregate
- The iOS App Store
- Walk before you can run (or double jump)
- There's no such thing as "finished
- Stop! Hammer time
- Fight Some Angry Bots
- The wonders of technology!
- The Scene window
- The Game window
- The Hierarchy panel
- The Project panel
- The Inspector panel
- Heads Up?
- Layers and layout dropdowns
- Playback controls
- Scene controls
- Don't stop there - live a little!
- Summary
- Big ambition, tiny games
- 2. Let's Start with the Sky.
- That little lightbulb
- The siren song of 3D
- Features versus content
- A game with no features
- Mechanic versus skin
- Trapped in your own skin
- That singular piece of joy
- One percent inspiration
- Motherload
- Possible additional features:
- Heads up!
- Artillery Live!
- The skinny on multiplayer
- Bang for your buck
- Pong
- The mechanic that launched a thousand games
- Have a go hero - redesign your favorite games
- Toy or story
- Pop Quiz - finding that singular piece of joy
- Redefining the sky
- Summary
- Let's begin
- 3. Game #1 - Ticker Taker
- Kick up a new Unity project
- Where did everything go?
- 'Tis volley
- Keep the dream alive
- Slash and burn!
- The many faces of keep-up
- Creating the ball and the hitter
- Time for action - create the Ball
- What just happened - that's all there is to it?
- A ball by any other name
- Time for action - rename the Ball
- Origin story
- XYZ/RGB
- Time for action - move the Ball Into the "Sky
- Time for action - shrink the Ball
- Time for action - save your scene
- Time for action - add the Paddle
- What's a Mesh?
- Poly wants to crack your game performance?
- Keeping yourself in the dark
- Time for action - add a light
- Time for action - move and rotate the light
- Have a go hero
- Extra credit
- Are you a luminary?
- Who turned out the lights?
- Darkness reigns
- Cameramania
- Time for action - test your game
- Let's get physical
- Add physics to your game
- Understanding the gravity of the situation
- More bounce to the ounce
- Time for action - make the Ball bouncy
- Have a go hero
- Summary
- Following the script
- 4. Code Comfort
- What is code?
- Time for action - write your first Unity Script
- A leap of faith
- Lick it and stick it
- Disappear me!
- What just happened?
- It's all Greek to me.
- You'll never go hungry again
- With great sandwich comes great responsibility
- Examining the code
- Time for action - find the Mesh Renderer component
- Time for action - make the ball re-appear
- Ding!
- Time for action - journey to the Unity Script Reference
- The Renderer class
- Have a go hero - pulling the wings off of flies
- What's another word for "huh"?
- It's been fun
- Time for action - unstick the Script
- Gone, but not forgotten
- Why code?
- Equip your baby bird
- Time for action - create a new MouseFollow Script
- What just happened?
- A capital idea
- Animating with code
- Time for action - animate the Paddle
- What just happened - what witchcraft is this?
- Why didn't the Paddle animate before?
- Pick a word - (almost) any word
- Screen coordinates versus World coordinates
- Move the Paddle
- Worst. Game. Ever.
- See the matrix
- Time for action - listen to the paddle
- A tiny bit o' math
- Tracking the numbers
- Futzing with the numbers
- Time for action - Log the New Number
- She's a-work!
- Somebody get me a bucket
- Time for action - declare a variable to store the Screen midpoint
- What just happened - we've gone too var
- Using all three dees
- Time for action - follow the y position of the mouse
- A keep-up game for robots
- Once more into the breach
- Time for action - re-visit the Unity Language Reference
- Our work here is done
- Time for action - add the sample code to your Script
- One final tweak
- What's a quaternion?
- Wait, what's a quaternion?
- WHAT THE HECK IS A QUATERNION??
- Educated guesses
- More on Slerp
- Right on target
- Have a go hero - time to break stuff
- Keep it up
- Beyond the game mechanic
- C# Addendum
- 5. Game #2 - Robot Repair
- You'll totally flip
- A blank slate
- You're making a scene
- Time for action - set up two scenes.
- No right answer
- Time for action - prepare the GUI
- The beat of your own drum
- Time for action - create and link a custom GUI skin
- What just happened?
- Time for action - create a button UI control
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero - no sense sitting around on your button
- Want font?
- Cover your assets
- Time for action - nix the mip-mapping
- Front and center
- Time for action - center the button
- What just happened - investigating the code
- The waiting game
- The easiest button to button
- To the game!
- Time for action - add both scenes to Build List
- Set the stage for robots
- Time for action - prepare the game scene
- The game plan
- Have some class!
- Time for action - store the essentials
- A matter of great import
- Building a better bucket
- How big is your locker?
- Start me up
- Going loopy
- The anatomy of a loop
- To nest is best
- Seeing is believing
- Time for action - create an area to store the grid
- Have a go hero - don't take my word for it!
- Build that grid
- What just happened - grokking the code
- Now you're playing with power!
- C# addendum
- 6. Game #2 - Robot Repair Part 2
- From zero to game in one chapter
- Finding your center
- Time for action - centering the game grid vertically
- What just happened?
- Time for action - centering the game grid horizontally
- What just happened - coding like a ninja
- Down to the nitty griddy
- Do the random card shuffle
- Time for action - preparing to build the deck
- Let's break some robots
- Time for action - building the deck
- What just happened - dissecting the bits
- Time for action - modifying the img argument
- What just happened?
- What exactly is "this"?
- Have a go hero - grokketh-thou Random.Range()?
- Random reigns supreme
- Second dragon down
- Time to totally flip.
- Time for action - making the cards two-sided
- Time for action - building the card-flipping function
- Time for action - building the card-flipping function
- What just happened - dissecting the flip
- Pumpkin eater
- What just happened?
- Stabby McDragonpoker rides again
- Game and match
- Time for action - ID the cards
- What just happened?
- Time for action - comparing the IDs
- What just happened?
- On to the final boss
- Endgame
- Time for action - checking for victory
- What just happened?
- Have a go hero - extra credit
- Endgame
- Bring. It. On.
- C# Addendum
- 7. Don't Be a Clock Blocker
- Apply pressure
- Time for action - preparing the Clock Script
- Time for more action - preparing the clock text
- Still time for action - changing the clock text color
- Time for action rides again - creating Font Texture and Material
- Time for action - what's with the tiny font?
- What just happened - was that seriously magic?
- Time for action - preparing the clock code
- What just happened - that's a whole lotta nothing
- Time for action - creating the countdown logic
- Time for action - displaying the time on-screen
- What just happened - what about that terrifying code?
- Picture it
- Time for action - grabbing the picture clock graphics
- What just happened - you can do that?
- Time for action - Flex those GUI muscles
- What just happened - how does it work?
- The incredible shrinking clock
- Keep your fork - there's pie!
- Pop quiz - how do we build it?
- How they did it
- Time for action - rigging up the textures
- Time for action - writing the pie chart script
- What just happened?
- Time for action - commencing operation pie clock
- What just happened - explaining away the loose ends
- Time for action - positioning and scaling the clock
- Have a go hero - rock out with your clock out.
- Unfinished business.
