Unity for Absolute Beginners

Sue Blackman, Jenny Wang (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

612 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-6779-9 (ISBN)

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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 variationof 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.

Sue Blackman has been an instructor in the 3D field for nearly 20 years at art schools and community colleges. She has been involved with the commercial development of real-time 3D engines for more than 10 years. In the past, she has been a contributing author for New Riders Press (Max4 Magic) and written for AMC Siggraph on serious games. She has written product training materials and instruction manuals for developing content with real-time 3D applications, used by multimedia departments in Fortune 1000 companies including Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, among others. In addition to writing and teaching, Sue has been the lead 3D artist on several games for Activision and its subsidiaries.

1. The Unity Editor 2. Unity Basics 3. Navigation and Physics 4. Importing Static Assets 5. Scripting with C# 6. Mecanim and Animation 7. Populating the Game Environment 8. Weaponry and Special Effects 9. Incorporating Unity 2D 10. Menus and Levels 11. Bonus Features Appendix: Rigging with Mixamo

Zusatzinfo	540 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 612 p. 540 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
Schlagworte	Computerspiele (Programmierung/Entwicklung)
ISBN-10	1-4302-6779-8 / 1430267798
ISBN-13	978-1-4302-6779-9 / 9781430267799
Zustand	Neuware