Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook. Over 90 recipes to build and customize AI entities for your games with Unity - Second Edition

Jorge Palacios

Interactive and engaging games come with intelligent enemies, and this intellectual behavior is combined with a variety of techniques collectively referred to as Artificial Intelligence. Exploring Unity's API, or its built-in features, allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your game's worlds and characters. This cookbook covers both essential and niche techniques to help you take your AI programming to the next level.To start with, you’ll quickly run through the essential building blocks of working with an agent, programming movement, and navigation in a game environment, followed by improving your agent's decision-making and coordination mechanisms – all through hands-on examples using easily customizable techniques. You’ll then discover how to emulate the vision and hearing capabilities of your agent for natural and humanlike AI behavior, and later improve the agents with the help of graphs. This book also covers the new navigational mesh with improved AI and pathfinding tools introduced in the Unity 2018 update. You’ll empower your AI with decision-making functions by programming simple board games, such as tic-tac-toe and checkers, and orchestrate agent coordination to get your AIs working together as one.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained expertise in AI programming and developed creative and interactive games.

Unity 2018 By Example. Learn about game and virtual reality development by creating five engaging projects - Second Edition

Alan Thorn

Unity is the most exciting and popular engine used for developing games. With its 2018 release, Unity has become the primary source of both game development and virtual reality content.In Unity 2018 By Example, you’ll learn how to use Unity in order to make amazing games from popular genres - from action shooters to mind-bending puzzle games to adventure and Virtual Reality (VR) games. Even if you have no previous experience of using Unity, this book will help you understand the toolsets it provides in depth. In addition to this, you'll understand how to create time-critical collection games, twin-stick space shooters, platformers, and action-fest games with intelligent enemies. Finally, you'll get to grips with creating VR games with the new toolsets introduced by Unity to help you develop amazing VR experiences.To make things easier, you will be provided with step-by-step tutorials for making five great games in Unity 2018, along with a detailed explanation of all the fundamental concepts. By the end of this book, you’ll have established a strong foundation in making games with Unity 2018.

Unity 2018 Cookbook. Over 160 recipes to take your 2D and 3D game development to the next level - Third Edition

Matt Smith, Francisco Queiroz

With the help of the Unity 2018 Cookbook, you’ll discover how to make the most of the UI system and understand how to animate both 2D and 3D characters and game scene objects using Unity's Mecanim animation toolsets.Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you will familiarize yourself with shaders and Shader Graphs, followed by understanding the animation features to enhance your skills in building fantastic games. In addition to this, you will discover AI and navigation techniques for nonplayer character control and later explore Unity 2018’s newly added features to improve your 2D and 3D game development skills. This book provides many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques.By the end of this book, you'll have gained comprehensive knowledge in game development with Unity 2018.

Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook. Transform your game into a visually stunning masterpiece with over 70 recipes - Third Edition

John P. Doran, Alan Zucconi

Since their introduction to Unity, shaders have been seen as notoriously difficult to understand and implement in games. Complex mathematics has always stood in the way of creating your own shaders and attaining the level of realism you crave.Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook changes that by giving you a recipe-based guide to creating shaders using Unity. It will show you everything you need to know about vectors, how lighting is constructed with them, and how textures are used to create complex effects without the heavy math.This book starts by teaching you how to use shaders without writing code with the post-processing stack. Then, you’ll learn how to write shaders from scratch, build up essential lighting, and finish by creating stunning screen effects just like those in high-quality 3D and mobile games. You'll discover techniques, such as normal mapping, image-based lighting, and animating your models inside a shader. We'll explore how to use physically based rendering to treat light the way it behaves in the real world. At the end, we’ll even look at Unity 2018’s new Shader Graph system.With this book, what seems like a dark art today will be second nature by tomorrow.

Unity 2020 By Example. A project-based guide to building 2D, 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality games from scratch - Third Edition

Robert Wells

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions.The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development.By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.

Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development. Discover practical techniques and examples to create and deliver engaging games for Android and iOS - Second Edition

John P. Doran

Unity 2020 brings a lot of new features that can be harnessed for building powerful games for popular mobile platforms. This updated second edition delves into Unity development, covering the new features of Unity, modern development practices, and augmented reality (AR) for creating an immersive mobile experience. The book takes a step-by-step approach to building an endless runner game using Unity to help you learn the concepts of mobile game development.This new edition also covers AR features and explains how to implement them using ARCore and ARKit with Unity. The book explores the new mobile notification package and helps you add notifications for your games. You’ll learn how to add touch gestures and design UI elements that can be used in both landscape and portrait modes at different resolutions. The book then covers the best ways to monetize your games using Unity Ads and in-app purchases before you learn how to integrate your game with various social networks. Next, using Unity’s analytics tools, you’ll enhance your game by gaining insights into how players like and use your game. Finally, you’ll take your games into the real world by implementing AR capabilities and publishing them on both Android and iOS app stores.By the end of this book, you will have learned Unity tools and techniques and be able to use them to build robust cross-platform mobile games.

Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects. Learn VR development by building immersive applications and games with Unity 2019.4 and later versions - Third Edition

Jonathan Linowes

This third edition of the Unity Virtual Reality (VR) development guide is updated to cover the latest features of Unity 2019.4 or later versions - the leading platform for building VR games, applications, and immersive experiences for contemporary VR devices.Enhanced with more focus on growing components, such as Universal Render Pipeline (URP), extended reality (XR) plugins, the XR Interaction Toolkit package, and the latest VR devices, this edition will help you to get up to date with the current state of VR. With its practical and project-based approach, this book covers the specifics of virtual reality development in Unity. You'll learn how to build VR apps that can be experienced with modern devices from Oculus, VIVE, and others. This virtual reality book presents lighting and rendering strategies to help you build cutting-edge graphics, and explains URP and rendering concepts that will enable you to achieve realism for your apps. You'll build real-world VR experiences using world space user interface canvases, locomotion and teleportation, 360-degree media, and timeline animation, as well as learn about important VR development concepts, best practices, and performance optimization and user experience strategies.By the end of this Unity book, you'll be fully equipped to use Unity to develop rich, interactive virtual reality experiences.

Unity 2021 Cookbook. Over 140 recipes to take your Unity game development skills to the next level - Fourth Edition

Matthew Smith, Shaun Ferns, Chris Gregan

If you are a Unity developer looking to explore the newest features of Unity 2021 and recipes for advanced challenges, then this fourth edition of Unity Cookbook is here to help you.With this cookbook, you’ll work through a wide variety of recipes that will help you use the essential features of the Unity game engine to their fullest potential. You familiarize yourself with shaders and Shader Graph before exploring animation features to enhance your skills in building games.As you progress, you will gain insights into Unity's latest editor, which will help you in laying out scenes, tweaking existing apps, and building custom tools for augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) experiences. The book will also guide you through many Unity C# gameplay scripting techniques, teaching you how to communicate with database-driven websites and process XML and JSON data files.By the end of this Unity book, you will have gained a comprehensive understanding of Unity game development and built your development skills. The easy-to-follow recipes will earn a permanent place on your bookshelf for reference and help you build better games that stay true to your vision.

Unity 2021 Shaders and Effects Cookbook. Over 50 recipes to help you transform your game into a visually stunning masterpiece - Fourth Edition

John P. Doran

Shaders enable you to create powerful visuals for your game projects. However, creating shaders for your games can be notoriously challenging with various factors such as complex mathematics standing in the way of attaining the level of realism you crave for your shaders.The Unity 2021 Shaders and Effects Cookbook helps you overcome that with a recipe-based approach to creating shaders using Unity. This fourth edition is updated and enhanced using Unity 2021 features and tools covering Unity's new way of creating particle effects with the VFX Graph. You'll learn how to use VFX Graph for advanced shader development. The book also features updated recipes for using Shader Graph to create 2D and 3D elements. You'll cover everything you need to know about vectors, how they can be used to construct lighting, and how to use textures to create complex effects without the heavy math. You'll also understand how to use the visual-based Shader Graph for creating shaders without any code.By the end of this Unity book, you'll have developed a set of shaders that you can use in your Unity 3D games and be able to accomplish new effects and address the performance needs of your Unity game development projects. So, let's get started!

Unity 5 for Android Essentials. A fast-paced guide to building impressive games and applications for Android devices with Unity 5

Valera Cogut

Unity AI Programming Essentials. Use Unity3D, a popular game development ecosystem, to add realistic AI to your games quickly and effortlessly

Curtis Bennett

Unity Animation Essentials. Bring your characters to life with the latest features of Unity and Mecanim

Alan Thorn

Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming. Add powerful, believable, and fun AI entities in your game with the power of Unity - Fifth Edition

Dr. Davide Aversa

Developing artificial intelligence (AI) for game characters in Unity has never been easier. Unity provides game and app developers with a variety of tools to implement AI, from basic techniques to cutting-edge machine learning-powered agents. Leveraging these tools via Unity's API or built-in features allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating game worlds and characters.The updated fifth edition of Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming starts by breaking down AI into simple concepts. Using a variety of examples, the book then takes those concepts and walks you through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts and features related to game AI in Unity. As you progress, you’ll learn how to implement a finite state machine (FSM) to determine how your AI behaves, apply probability and randomness to make games less predictable, and implement a basic sensory system. Later, you’ll understand how to set up a game map with a navigation mesh, incorporate movement through techniques such as A* pathfinding, and provide characters with decision-making abilities using behavior trees.By the end of this Unity book, you’ll have the skills you need to bring together all the concepts and practical lessons you’ve learned to build an impressive vehicle battle game.

Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming. Add powerful, believable, and fun AI entities in your game with the power of Unity 2018! - Fourth Edition

Dr. Davide Aversa, Aung Sithu Kyaw, Clifford Peters

Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for game characters in Unity 2018 has never been easier. Unity provides game and app developers with a variety of tools to implement AI, from the basic techniques to cutting-edge machine learning-powered agents. Leveraging these tools via Unity's API or built-in features allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your game's worlds and characters.This fourth edition with Unity will help you break down AI into simple concepts to give you a fundamental understanding of the topic to build upon. Using a variety of examples, the book then takes those concepts and walks you through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts and features related to game AI in Unity.Further on, you'll learn how to distinguish the state machine pattern and implement one of your own. This is followed by learning how to implement a basic sensory system for your AI agent and coupling it with a Finite State Machine (FSM).Next, you'll learn how to use Unity's built-in NavMesh feature and implement your own A* pathfinding system. You'll then learn how to implement simple ?ocks and crowd dynamics, which are key AI concepts in Unity. Moving on, you'll learn how to implement a behavior tree through a game-focused example. Lastly, you'll apply all the concepts in the book to build a popular game.

Unity Certified Programmer: Exam Guide. Expert tips and techniques to pass the Unity certification exam at the first attempt

Philip Walker

Unity Certified Programmer is a global certification program by Unity for anyone looking to become a professional Unity developer. The official Unity programmer exam will not only validate your Unity knowledge and skills, but also enable you to be part of the Unity community.This study guide will start by building on your understanding of C# programming and take you through the process of downloading and installing Unity. You’ll understand how Unity works and get to grips with the core objectives of the Unity exam. As you advance, you’ll enhance your skills by creating an enjoyable side-scrolling shooter game that can be played within the Unity Editor or any recent Android mobile device. This Unity book will test your knowledge with self-assessment questions and help you take your skills to an advanced level by working with Unity tools such as the Animator, Particle Effects, Lighting, UI/UX, Scriptable Objects, and debugging.By the end of this book, you’ll have developed a solid understanding of the different tools in Unity and understand how to create impressive Unity applications by making the most of its toolset.

Unity Character Animation with Mecanim. A detailed guide to the complex new animation tools in Unity, packed with clear instructions and illustrated with original content in the context of a next generation zombie apocalypse adventure game

Jamie Dean

Game animation for independent developers has taken a giant leap forward with Unity 5's Mecanim toolset, which streamlines the import/export, retargeting, and many other aspects of the character animation workflow. Unity Character Animation with Mecanim is a great primer for getting to know the nuts and bolts of Mecanim and other character animation related tools in Unity 5. It offers you step-by-step instructions for preparing and exporting rigged models and animation sequences from commonly used 3D packages, such as Maya, 3ds Max and Blender.This book explores the new set of animation tools introduced with Mecanim in Unity 5. Approaching its subject matter through a typical genre–a zombie action game, character animation techniques are explored using real examples of player input and interaction, enemy behavior, and other aspects of game dynamics. As the book progresses, the reader will understand how these elements fit together in a small game development workflow.We will begin with a demonstration of the process of getting a rigged character into Unity 5 and setting it up to use provided animation sequences. We will also consider a few industry standard 3D packages and how these can be used to rig a humanoid character for use in Unity 5. We will demonstrate the retargeting capabilities of Mecanim’s Humanoid Animation type by adjusting motion sequences to fit disparate character types in our game. After this, we will look at Ragdoll physics and the implementation of this commonly used technique in a Mecanim workflow. The book culminates with a thorough dissection of the enemy character AI script incorporating the Mecanim elements detailed in the previous chapters.Unity Character Animation with Mecanim will provide you with a detailed exploration of the interaction between game development and character animation, and will broaden your understanding of the rich animation toolset within Unity 5

Unity Cookbook. Over 160 recipes to craft your own masterpiece in Unity 2023 - Fifth Edition

Matt Smith, Shaun Ferns, Sinéad Murphy, Chris Gregan

Unleash your game development potential with Unity Cookbook, 5th Edition, designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in Unity game development. With over 160 expertly crafted recipes empowering you to pioneer VR and AR experiences, excel in mobile game development, and become a master of audio techniques.In this latest edition, we've meticulously curated a collection of recipes that reflect the latest advancements in Unity 2023, ensuring you stay at the forefront of game development. You'll discover dedicated recipes for First/Third Person (Core) templates, create engaging mobile games, delve into Virtual and Augmented Reality, and go further with audio by exploring advanced techniques. Additionally, the book has been fully updated to incorporate the new input system and TextMeshPro, essential elements for modern game development.From exploring C# scripting to crafting stylish UIs, creating stunning visual effects, and understanding shader development through Shader Graph, every chapter is designed to take you closer to your goal of becoming a proficient Unity developer.So, whether you're aiming to develop the next hit game, enhance your portfolio, or simply have fun building games, this book will be your trusted companion on your journey to Unity proficiency.

Unity Game Development Blueprints. Explore the various enticing features of Unity and learn how to develop awesome games

John P. Doran

Unity Game Optimization. Enhance and extend the performance of all aspects of your Unity games - Third Edition

Dr. Davide Aversa, Chris Dickinson

Unity engine comes with a great set of features to help you build high-performance games. This Unity book is your guide to optimizing various aspects of your game development, from game characters and scripts, right through to animations.You’ll explore techniques for writing better game scripts and learn how to optimize a game using Unity technologies such as ECS and the Burst compiler. The book will also help you manage third-party tooling used with the Unity ecosystem. You’ll also focus on the problems in the performance of large games and virtual reality (VR) projects in Unity, gaining insights into detecting performance issues and performing root cause analysis. As you progress, you’ll discover best practices for your Unity C# script code and get to grips with usage patterns. Later, you’ll be able to optimize audio resources and texture files, along with effectively storing and using resource files. You’ll then delve into the Rendering Pipeline and learn how to identify performance problems in the pipeline. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to optimize the memory and processing unit of Unity. Finally, you’ll cover tips and tricks used by Unity professionals to improve the project workflow.By the end of this book, you’ll have developed the skills you need to build interactive games using Unity and its components.

Unity i C#. Podstawy programowania gier

Ewa Ross, Jacek Ross

Zdobądź pracę marzeń - zostań programistą Unity! Poznaj środowisko pracy Naucz się tworzyć sceny Buduj ciekawe projekty Unity to zintegrowane środowisko umożliwiające tworzenie trójwymiarowych i dwuwymiarowych gier oraz różnego rodzaju interaktywnych treści, takich jak wizualizacje i animacje komputerowe. Wieloplatformowość rozwiązania, prostota używania, bogate funkcje, możliwość generowania materiałów prezentowanych na różnych urządzeniach oraz obsługa różnych języków skryptowych zadecydowały o niezwykłej popularności Unity i spowodowały, że to jeden z najczęściej wykorzystywanych silników gier komputerowych. Jeśli marzysz o karierze twórcy gier, lecz obawiasz się, że nie uda Ci się opanować sztuki programowania, przekonaj się, że to wcale nie jest takie trudne! Dzięki tej książce sprawnie i pewnie wkroczysz w świat tworzenia gier komputerowych za pomocą języka C# w środowisku Unity. Szybko się dowiesz, co trzeba zrobić, aby opanować niezbędne podstawy. Za sprawą dobrze przemyślanych lekcji osiągniesz kolejne stopnie wtajemniczenia, a zadania i podpowiedzi umożliwią Ci utrwalenie swojej wiedzy i sprawdzenie jej w praktyce. Bez nadmiaru teorii i prosto do celu - właśnie tak nauczysz się Unity! Instalacja i przegląd środowiska pracy Podstawowe operacje i komponenty Unity Tworzenie skryptów oraz kompilacja projektu Inżynieria oprogramowania, procesy i dokumentacja Podstawy programowania w języku C# Typy danych i konstrukcje programistyczne Debugowanie programu i używanie zewnętrznego kodu Tworzenie gier z Unity? To nic trudnego!

Unity i C#. Praktyka programowania gier

Jacek Ross

Osiągnij wyższy poziom z Unity i C#! Poznaj zaawansowane techniki programowania Dowiedz się, jak realizować projekt informatyczny Naucz się tworzyć grę od strony praktycznej Połączenie platformy Unity i języka C# zapewnia doskonałe środowisko do tworzenia i rozwijania różnego rodzaju gier komputerowych. To sprawia, że tandem ten jest niezwykle popularny wśród game developerów pragnących szybko i wydajnie osiągać profesjonalne efekty. Jednak sama znajomość narzędzi nie wystarczy, aby sprostać niełatwemu zadaniu zaprojektowania i zaprogramowania prawdziwej gry - by przekuć pomysł i umiejętności w prawdziwy produkt, trzeba czegoś więcej. Niezbędne doświadczenie możesz zdobyć tylko w praktyce i na realnych przykładach. Takie warunki zapewni Ci właśnie ta książka! Pozbawiona zbędnej teorii, oparta na prawdziwym przypadku i do bólu praktyczna, pozwoli Ci szybko poznać zaawansowane techniki tworzenia gier komputerowych oraz wdrożyć się w proces opracowywania projektu przy użyciu metodyki zwinnej. Krok po kroku, iteracja za iteracją będziesz towarzyszyć autorowi w pracy nad komercyjnym produktem - przejdziesz wszystkie fazy jego rozwoju: od programowania, poprzez usuwanie błędów, po publikację gotowej gry. W książce: Tworzenie obiektów scen środowiska Unity oraz ich komponentów Zaawansowane techniki w języku C# przydatne twórcom gier Praktyczne zastosowanie różnych wzorców projektowych Zarządzanie obiektami, wirtualnym czasem gry i jej stanem Realizacja rozgrywki w widoku pierwszoosobowym Usuwanie błędów i testowanie balansu gry Dostosowanie gry do platform mobilnych oraz VR Publikacja gry w popularnych sklepach cyfrowych Zastosowanie metodyki zwinnej w projekcie gry Programuj gry jak profesjonalista!

Unity na start! Programowanie dla nastolatków

Jacek Ross, Ksawery Ross

Projektuj, twórz, eksperymentuj i... baw się świetnie! Poznaj środowisko Unity Naucz się tworzyć gry Realizuj swoją pasję Unity to popularne środowisko do tworzenia gier komputerowych, które umożliwia szybkie rozpoczęcie pracy nawet zupełnie początkującym użytkownikom. Równocześnie pozwala w krótkim czasie uzyskać ciekawe efekty. Książka Unity. Programowanie dla nastolatków krok po kroku wprowadza w świat tworzenia gier komputerowych i w przystępny sposób przedstawia najważniejsze informacje, które pozwalają rozwinąć skrzydła początkującym game developerom. Jej lektura to także znakomity pretekst do tego, by nauczyć się twórczo spędzać czas z komputerem, i okazja do wspólnych, integrujących rodzinę zajęć.Jeśli masz w sobie pasję prawdziwego gracza i chęć, aby zmierzyć się z wyzwaniem stworzenia własnej gry, ten przewodnik wskaże Ci najlepszą drogę do celu! Czego potrzebujesz na początek? Jak wpaść na pomysł na grę? Skąd wziąć niezbędne zasoby? Jak opracować postać i obiekty? Jak zadbać o mechanikę? Jak obsłużyć interakcję z użytkownikiem? Jak wdrożyć w życie zasady gry? Skąd pobrać odpowiednie dźwięki? Jak dokładać nowe sceny? W jakim kierunku rozwijać grę? Na te i inne pytania znajdziesz odpowiedź w tej książce! Napędzaj swoje gry silnikiem Unity!

Unity. Przepisy na interfejs gry

Francesco Sapio

Ponad 60 przepisów pomocnych w budowaniu kunsztownych i profesjonalnych interfejsów, dzięki którym gry mogą stać się atrakcyjniejsze. Umiejętność projektowania i implementacji interfejsów użytkownika jest szczególnie ważna dla programistów gier. Aby gra mogła porwać i wciągnąć gracza po uszy, jej interfejs musi być zarówno funkcjonalny, jak i przyjemny dla oka. Idealnym narzędziem do tworzenia gier jest Unity: program, który pozwala na konstruowanie doskonałych, dynamicznych interfejsów. Szczególnie atrakcyjne jest łączenie ze sobą elementów graficznych i kodu tworzonego w języku C# — w ten sposób Unity pozwala na osiąganie imponujących wyników. Niniejsza książka jest przeznaczona dla osób, które chcą wykorzystać silnik Unity do tworzenia gier wideo. Przedstawiono tu sposoby implementacji systemów interfejsu użytkownika i łączenia ich z pozostałymi składnikami gry. Przygotowano ją jako zbiór przepisów na wykonanie określonych zadań, jednak najpierw omówiono tu zagadnienia podstawowe, a dopiero potem te nieco trudniejsze. Pozwala to na stopniowe doskonalenie umiejętności programistycznych. Podczas lektury książki warto zwrócić uwagę na odwołania do relacji między graczem a interfejsem gry — niezwykle ważny czynnik dla projektanta. W książce omówiono: najważniejsze zagadnienia, o których trzeba pamiętać podczas tworzenia gier implementację liczników i pasków zdrowia, a także prezentacji czasu w grze tworzenie interaktywnych kontrolek, takich jak panele i suwaki tworzenie interaktywnych składników interfejsów i animowanie ich implementację zaawansowanych elementów HUD implementację interfejsów użytkownika w 3D oraz stosowanie minimap Francesco Sapio jest inżynierem informatyki i automatyki, utalentowanym projektantem gier komputerowych i doświadczonym użytkownikiem programów graficznych. Jest wybitnym znawcą oprogramowania Unity3D. Jest także muzykiem, ponadto przez kilka lat pracował jako aktor i tancerz. Sapio uwielbia matematykę, filozofię, logikę i rozwiązywanie zagadek, ale jego największą pasją jest projektowanie i programowanie gier. Lubisz grać? Spróbuj zaprojektować i napisać swoją własną grę!

Unity. Przewodnik projektanta gier

Mike Geig

24 h do własnej gry! Unity to zaawansowane środowisko do tworzenia gier 3D, prezentacji i animacji zarówno na urządzenia mobilne, jak i stacjonarne. Wokół tego silnika skupiona jest ogromna społeczność, prezentująca produkcje o różnym stopniu zaawansowania. Jeżeli Twoim marzeniem jest stworzenie gry według własnego scenariusza, jeżeli chcesz sprawdzić się w roli projektanta gier wideo, to trafiłeś na doskonałą książkę, w całości poświęconą silnikowi Unity! Ta książka pozwoli Ci poznać zintegrowane środowisko (IDE) oraz dostosować je do własnych potrzeb. Nauczysz się tworzyć obiekty gry i wykonywać na nich operacje, stosować shadery i tekstury oraz korzystać z narzędzi do tworzenia terenu i środowiska Twojej gry. Kolejne rozdziały to interesujące informacje na temat oświetlenia, kamer oraz efektów dźwiękowych. Na sam koniec dowiesz się, jak dopracować stworzoną grę, wdrożyć ją oraz zmodyfikować tak, żeby działała na urządzeniach mobilnych. Dzięki lekturze stworzysz gry: Gauntlet Runner, Captain Blaster, Chaos Ball, Amazing Racer. Przekonaj się, jakie możliwości kryje silnik Unity! Dowiesz się, jak: tworzyć i pracować z obiektami gry, czyli podstawowymi blokami budulcowymi w Unity; efektywnie pracować z zasobami w Unity; stosować shadery i tekstury w dowolnym obiekcie 3D; przygotowywać niezwykłe światy za pomocą oferowanych przez Unity narzędzi przeznaczonych do tworzenia terenu i środowiska; wykonywać różne zadania w skryptach, począwszy od przechwytywania danych wejściowych aż po opracowanie skomplikowanych zachowań; szybko tworzyć możliwe do wielokrotnego użycia obiekty w postaci prefabrykatów; implementować łatwe i intuicyjne graficzne interfejsy użytkownika; tworzyć zdumiewające efekty za pomocą nowego w Unity systemu cząsteczek o nazwie Shurinken; wykorzystać pełne możliwości nowego w Unity systemu animacji o nazwie Mecanim; zintegrować dźwięk 2D i 3D z tworzonymi grami; używać wbudowanych w urządzenia mobilne przyśpieszeniomierzy i ekranów dotykowych; zmodyfikować grę w wersji biurkowej do wersji działającej w urządzeniach mobilnych; dopracować i wdrożyć grę. Zrealizuj swoje marzenie o stworzeniu własnej gry! * W książce wykorzystano Unity wersjach 4.1 i 4.2. ** Dodatkowe materiały do książki możesz pobrać >>> TU.