Unity for Absolute Beginners

Synopsis

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity. Using the free version of Unity to begin your game development career, you'll learn how to import, evaluate and manage your game resources to create awesome third-person shooters. This book assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, and that you're eager to start creating games as quickly as possible, while learning Unity in a fun and interactive environment. With Unity for Absolute Beginners you'll become familiar with the Unity editor, key concepts and functionality. You'll learn how to import, evaluate and manage resources. You'll explore C# scripting in Unity, and learn how to use the Unity API. Using the provided art assets, you will learn the fundamentals of good game design and iterative refinement as you take your game from a simple prototype to a quirky, but challenging variation of the ever-popular first-person shooter. As can be expected, there will be plenty of destruction, special effects and mayhem along the way. Unity for Absolute Beginners assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, but are eager to get up-to-speed as quickly as possible while learning Unity in a fun and interactive environment. What you'll learnHow to use the Unity editor, including key concepts and functionalityHow to use import, evaluate and manage resources for use in your Unity gamesHow to use the Unity API and script in Unity using C#The fundamentals of good game design and the process you need to use to make good gamesWho this book is for This book assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, but are eager to get up to speed as quickly as possible while learning Unity in a fun and interactive environment. Table of Contents1. The Unity Editor2. Unity Basics3. Navigation and Physics4. Importing Static Assets5. Scripting with C#6. Mecanim and Animation7. Populating the Game Environment8. Weaponry and Special Effects9. Incorporating Unity 2D10. Menus and Levels11. Bonus FeaturesAppendix: Rigging with Mixamo"

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781430267782

Publisher:

Apress, Berkeley, CA

Date of Addition:

12/13/16

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Computers and Internet

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.