Unity Game Development Essentials
Author: Will Goldstone
ISBN-10: 184719818X
ISBN-13: 978-1847198181
Pages: 298
Language: English
Year:2009
File:PDF
Create full-featured professional 3D games with realistic surroundings, sound and dynamic effects.
Book Description:
This book is designed to cover a set of easy-to-follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First-Person-viewed 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. If you’re a designer or animator who wishes to make their first steps into game development, or if you’ve simply spent many hours seated in front of video games, with ideas bubbling away in the back of your mind, Unity and this book could be your ideal starting point. No prior knowledge of game production is required. You’ll learn scripting with JavaScript and master the Unity development environment with easy to follow stepwise tasks.
Here’s a quick chapter-by-chapter overview of what will be covered:
- Consider the concept of 3D and the processes used, the construction of the landscape, sound and lighting
- Character Creation
- Animate the game with scripts and animation
- Build a HUD with a set of items
- Creating objects during game execution using physics objects
- Building a particle system to simulate graphical effects
- Creating a professional, easy-to-navigate menu
- Now we are doing dynamic effects, tracing. rendering and others
- Test the game and send it to the Internet.
About the Author
Will Goldstone is a longstanding member of the Unity community and works for Unity Technologies as a Technical Support Associate, handling educational content and developer support. With an MA in Creative Education, and many years experience as a lecturer in higher education, Will wrote the first ever Unity book, the original Unity Game Development Essentials, and also created the first ever video tutorials for the package. Through his sites http://www.unity3dstudent.com and http://learnunity3d.com Will helps to introduce new users to the growing community of developers discovering Unity every day.
Unity Game Development Essentials
Описание книги:
Эта книга предназначена для охвата ряда простых для понимания примеров, кульминацией которых является создание 3D-игры, просматриваемой от первого лица, с интерактивной островной средой. Если вы дизайнер или аниматор, который хочет создать их первые шаги в разработке игр, или если вы просто провели много часов, сидя перед видеоиграми, с идеями, бурлящими в глубине души, Unity и эта книга могли бы стать вашей идеальной отправной точкой. Предварительные знания о создании игр не требуются. Вы изучите сценарии на JavaScript и освоите среду разработки Unity с помощью простых пошаговых задач.
Вот краткий обзор того, что будет рассмотрено:
- Изучите концепцию 3D и используемых процессов, построения ландшафта, звука и освещения
- Создадите игрового персонажа
- Оживляем игру скриптами и анимацией
- Строим HUD с набором предметов
- Создание объектов во время выполнения игры с использованием объектов физики
- Построение системы частиц для моделирования графических эффектов
- Создание профессионального, удобного в навигации меню
- Теперь делаем динамические эффекты, трассировки. рендеринг и другие
- Тестируем игру и отправляем в Интернет
Unity Game Development Essentials
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Welcome to the Third Dimension
- Chapter 2: Environments
- Chapter 3: Player Characters
- Chapter 4: Interactions
- Chapter 5: Prefabs, Collection, and HUD
- Chapter 6: Instantiation and Rigid Bodies
- Chapter 7: Particle Systems
- Chapter 8: Menu Design
- Chapter 9: Finishing Touches
- Chapter 10: Building and Sharing
- Chapter 11: Testing and Further Study
- Index
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