Unity Game Development Essentials Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

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

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Welcome to the Third Dimension
  • Getting to grips with 3D
    • Coordinates
    • Local space versus World space
    • Vectors
    • Cameras
    • Polygons, edges, vertices, and meshes
    • Materials, textures, and shaders
    • Rigid Body physics
    • Collision detection
  • Essential Unity concepts
    • The Unity way
      • Assets
      • Scenes
      • Game Objects
      • Components
      • Scripts
      • Prefabs
  • The interface
    • The Scene window and Hierarchy
    • The Inspector
    • The Project window
    • The Game window
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Environments
  • External modellers
  • Resources

• Your first Unity project
• Using the terrain editor
  • Terrain menu features
    • Importing and exporting heightmaps
    • Set Heightmap resolution
    • Creating the lightmap
    • Mass Place Trees
    • Flatten Heightmap
    • Refresh Tree and Detail Prototypes
  • The terrain toolset
    • Terrain Script
    • Raise Height
    • Paint height
    • Smooth height
    • Paint Texture
    • Place Trees
    • Paint Details
    • Terrain Settings
  • Sun, Sea, Sand—creating the island
  • Take Me Home! Introducing models
    • Importing the model package
    • Common settings for models
    • Setting up the outpost model

• Summary

• Chapter 3: Player Characters
  • Working with the Inspector
    • Tags
    • Layers
    • Prefabs and the Inspector
  • Deconstructing the First Person Controller object
    • Parent-child issues
    • First Person Controller objects
      • Object 1: First Person Controller (parent)
      • Object 2: Graphics
      • Object 3: Main Camera
  • Scripting basics
    • Commands
    • Variables
    • Functions
    • If else statements
    • Globals and dot syntax
    • Comments
    • Further reading

• The FPSWalker script
  • Launching the script
  • Deconstructing the script

• Summary

• Chapter 4: Interactions
  • Exploring collisions
  • Ray casting
    • The frame miss
    • Predictive collision detection

• Adding the outpost
  • Positioning
  • Scaling
  • Colliders and tagging the door
  • Disabling automatic animation

• Opening the outpost
  • Approach 1—Collision detection
    • Creating new assets
    • Scripting for character collision detection
    • Attaching the script
  • Approach 2—Ray casting
    • Disabling collision detection—using comments
    • Resetting the door collider
    • Adding the ray

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Prefabs, Collection, and HUD
  • Creating the battery prefab
    • Download, import, and place
    • Tagging the battery
    • Scale, collider, and rotation
      • Enlarging the battery
      • Adding a trigger collider
      • Creating a rotation effect
      • Saving as a prefab
  • Scattering batteries
  • Displaying the battery GUI
    • Creating the GUI Texture object
    • Positioning the GUI Texture
    • Scripting for GUI change
  • Battery collection with triggers
  • Restricting outpost access
    • Restricting access
      • Utilizing GetComponent()
    • Hints for the player
      • Battery GUI hint
      • GUI Text hint
      • Using fonts
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Instantiation and Rigid Bodies
  • Introducing instantiation
    • In concept
    • In code
      • Passing in an object
      • Position and rotation
  • Introducing rigid bodies
    • Forces
    • The Rigidbody component
  • Making the minigame
    • Creating the coconut prefab
      • Creating the textured coconut
      • Adding physics
      • Saving as a prefab
    • Creating the Launcher object
    • Scripting coconut throws
      • Checking for player input
      • Playing feedback sound
      • Instantiating the coconut
      • Naming instances
      • Assigning velocity
      • Safeguarding collisions
    • Script and variable assignment
    • Instantiate restriction and object tidying
      • Activating coconut throw
      • Removing coconuts
    • Adding the coconut shy platform
      • Import settings
      • Placement
      • Coconut detection script
      • Script assignment
      • Making more targets
    • Winning the game
      • Variable setup
      • Checking for a win
      • Script assignment
      • Incrementing and decrementing targets
    • Finishing touches
      • Adding the crosshair
      • Informing the player
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Particle Systems
  • What is a particle system?
    • Particle emitter
    • Particle Animator
    • Particle Renderer
      • In summary
  • Making the task
    • Asset download
    • Adding the log pile
    • Creating the fire particle systems
      • Making fire
      • Making smoke
      • Adding audio to the fire
    • Lighting the fire
      • Adding the matches
      • Creating the Matches GUI
      • Collecting the matches
      • Setting fire
  • Testing and confirming
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Menu Design
  • Interfaces and menus
    • Making the main menu
      • Creating the scene
      • Cancelling mip mapping
      • Adding titling
  • Creating the menu—approach 1
    • Adding the play button
      • GUI Texture button script
      • Assigning public member variables
      • Adding the instructions button
      • Adding the quit button
      • Using debug commands to check scripts
  • Creating the menu—approach 2
    • Disabling Game Objects
    • Writing an OnGUI() script for a simple menu
      • Fixed versus layout
      • Public member variables
      • The OnGUI() function
      • Flexible positioning for GUIs
      • Adding UnityGUI buttons
      • Opening scenes with custom functions
      • GUI skin settings
    • Decision time
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Finishing Touches
  • Volcano!
    • Positioning the particle system
    • Downloading assets
    • Making the smoke material
    • Particle system settings
      • Ellipsoid Particle Emitter settings
      • Particle Animator settings
    • Adding audio to the volcano
    • Volcano testing
  • Coconut trails
    • Editing the Prefab
    • Trail Renderer component
    • Updating the prefab
  • Performance tweaks
    • Camera Clip Planes and fog
    • Ambient lighting
  • Instructions scene
    • Adding screen text
    • Text Animation using Linear Interpolation (Lerp)
    • Menu return
  • Island level fade-in
    • UnityGUI texture rendering
  • Game win notification
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Building and Sharing
  • Build Settings
    • Web Player
      • Player Settings
    • Web Player Streamed
    • OS X Dashboard Widget
    • OS X/Windows Standalone
  • Building the game
    • Adapting for web build
    • Texture compression and debug stripping
    • Building standalone
      • Indie versus Pro
    • Building for the Web
      • Adapting web player builds
  • Quality Settings
  • Player Input settings
  • Sharing your work
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Testing and Further Study
  • Testing and finalizing
    • Public testing
      • Frame rate feedback
      • Boosting performance
  • Approaches to learning
    • Cover as many bases as possible
    • If you don't know, just ask!
  • Summary

• Index

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