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Unity 2018 Game Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, 3rd Edition
- By Mike Geig
- Published May 18, 2018 by Sams. Part of the Sams Teach Yourself series.
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Features
- The complete beginner's guide to Do-It-Yourself game development with the powerful Unity game engine!
- Completely updated for Unity 2018
- ALL NEW chapters on: Timeline Sequences, 2D World Creation, Full Game Creation
- Teaches through hands-on projects, with strong visual elements complementing Unity's drag-and-drop approach
Description
- Copyright 2018
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 464
- Edition: 3rd
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- ISBN-10: 0-13-499813-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-499813-8
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Unity Game Development in 24 Hours will help you master the Unity 2018 game engine at the heart of Ori and the Blind Forest, Firewatch, Monument Valley, and many other sizzling-hot games! This book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach teaches you everything from the absolute basics through sophisticated game physics, animation, and mobile device deployment
techniques. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success.
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Unity game development tasks.
Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.
Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills.
Notes and Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Learn how to…
- Get up and running fast with the Unity 2018 game engine and editor
- Work efficiently with Unity’s graphical asset pipeline
- Make the most of lights and cameras
- Sculpt stunning worlds with Unity’s terrain and environmental tools
- Script tasks ranging from capturing input to building complex behaviors
- Quickly create repeatable, reusable game objects with prefabs
- Implement easy, intuitive game user interfaces
- Control players through built-in and custom character controllers
- Build realistic physical and trigger collisions
- Leverage the full power of Unity’s Animation and new Timeline systems
- Integrate complex audio into your games
- Use mobile device accelerometers and multi-touch displays
- Build engaging 2D games with Unity’s 2D tools and Tilemap
- Apply the “finishing touches” and deploy your games
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Table of Contents
HOUR 1: Introduction to Unity 1
Installing Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Getting to Know the Unity Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Navigating the Unity Scene View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
HOUR 2: Game Objects 23
Dimensions and Coordinate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Game Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
HOUR 3: Models, Materials, and Textures 39
The Basics of Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Textures, Shaders, and Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
HOUR 4: Terrain and Environments 53
Terrain Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Terrain Textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Generating Trees and Grass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Character Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
HOUR 5: Lights and Cameras 77
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
HOUR 6: Game 1: Amazing Racer 99
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Creating the Game World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Gamification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Playtesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
HOUR 7: Scripting, Part 1 115
Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Conditionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Iteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
HOUR 8: Scripting, Part 2 137
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Accessing Local Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Accessing Other Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
HOUR 9: Collision 155
Rigidbodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Enabling Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Raycasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
HOUR 10: Game 2: Chaos Ball 167
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
The Arena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Game Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
The Control Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Improving the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
QA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
HOUR 11: Prefabs 183
Prefab Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Working with Prefabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
HOUR 12: 2D Game Tools 197
The Basics of 2D Games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Orthographic Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Adding Sprites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Draw Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
2D Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
HOUR 13: 2D Tilemap 213
The Basics of Tilemaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Tilemaps and Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
HOUR 14: User Interfaces 231
Basic UI Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
The Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
UI Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Canvas Render Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
HOUR 15: Game 3: Captain Blaster 251
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
HOUR 16: Particle Systems 271
Particle Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Particle System Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
The Curves Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
HOUR 17: Animations 291
Animation Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Animation Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Animation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
HOUR 18: Animators 307
Animator Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Configuring Your Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Creating an Animator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Scripting Animators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
HOUR 19: Timeline 331
Timeline Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Working with Timelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Going Beyond Simple Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
HOUR 20: Game 4: Gauntlet Runner 345
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
The Entities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
The Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Room for Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
HOUR 21: Audio 365
Audio Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Audio Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Audio Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Audio Mixers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
HOUR 22: Mobile Development 381
Preparing for Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Accelerometers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
HOUR 23: Polish and Deploy 393
Managing Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Persisting Data and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Unity Player Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Building Your Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
HOUR 24: Wrap-up 409
Accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Your 19 Hours of Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Resources Available to You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
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