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Unity 5.x Game AI Programming Cookbook. Click here to enter text
Jorge Palacios
Unity 5 comes fully packaged with a toolbox of powerful features to help game and app developers create and implement powerful game AI. 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 practical Cookbook covers both essential and niche techniques to help you be able to do that and more.This Cookbook is engineered as your one-stop reference to take your game AI programming to the next level. Get to grips with the essential building blocks of working with an agent, programming movement and navigation in a game environment, and improving your agent's decision making and coordination mechanisms - all through hands-on examples using easily customizable techniques. Discover how to emulate vision and hearing capabilities for your agent, for natural and humanlike AI behaviour, and improve them with the help of graphs. Empower your AI with decision-making functions through programming simple board games such as Tic-Tac-Toe and Checkers, and orchestrate agent coordination to get your AIs working together as one.
Alan Zucconi
Since their introduction to Unity, Shaders have been notoriously difficult to understand and implement in games: complex mathematics have always stood in the way of creating your own Shaders and attaining that level of realism you crave. With Shaders, you can transform your game into a highly polished, refined product with Unity’s post-processing effects.Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook is the first of its kind to bring you the secrets of creating Shaders for Unity3D—guiding you through the process of understanding vectors, how lighting is constructed with them, and also how textures are used to create complex effects without the heavy math.We’ll start with essential lighting and finishing up by creating stunning screen Effects just like those in high quality 3D and mobile games. You’ll discover techniques including normal mapping, image-based lighting, and how to animate your models inside a Shader. We’ll explore the secrets behind some of the most powerful techniques, such as physically based rendering! With Unity Shaders and Effects Cookbook, what seems like a dark art today will be second nature by tomorrow.
Stefan Boeykens
Architects have always relied on drawings, renderings, and sometimes even movies to present their design concepts to clients, contractors, and other stakeholders. The accessibility of current game engines provides new and exciting possibilities to turn any design into an interactive model that anyone can experience at their own pace.Unity for Architectural Visualization explains how you can create compelling, real-time models from your 3D architectural project. Filled with practical tips and in-depth information, this book explains every step in the process, starting from the very basics up to custom scripts that will get you up to the next level.This book begins with a general overview of the Unity workflow for architectural models. You will start with a simple project that lets you walk around in your design using basic Unity tools and methods. You will then learn how to easily get convincing lightning effects on your scene. You will then set up a basic navigation system in your project, and not only this; you will also cover some tips and tricks to take navigation to the next level. You will quickly learn how to fine-tune the shaders and how to set up materials that are a bit more advanced. Even when you finish Unity for Architectural Visualization, this book will make scripting easier with reusable examples of scripts that can be applied in most projects. After reading this book, you will be comfortable enough to tackle new projects and develop your own.
Will Goldstone
Game engines are central to the video games we know and love. From the artwork to the mathematics that underpin the frames onscreen, the engine calls the shots. Aside from offering one of the leading 3D game engines, Unity also provides a superlative development tool ñ a tool that can produce professional standard games for Mac, PC, and the Unity Web Player.This book is a complete exercise in game development covering environments, physics, sound, particles, and much more, to get you up and working with Unity quickly.Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games before getting to grips with development in Unity itself. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating simple game elements you will learn everything you'll need to get started with game development for the PC, Mac, and Web.This book is designed to cover a set of easy to follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. By introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you'll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!
Alan R. Stagner
Unity is a game development engine that is fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows used to create interactive 3D content. Multiplayer games have long been a staple of video games, and online multiplayer games have seen an explosion in popularity in recent years. Unity provides a unique platform for independent developers to create the most in-demand multiplayer experiences, from relaxing social MMOs to adrenaline-pumping competitive shooters.A practical guide to writing a variety of online multiplayer games with the Unity game engine, using a multitude of networking middleware from player-hosted games to standalone dedicated servers to cloud multiplayer technology. You can create a wide variety of online games with the Unity 4 as well as Unity 3 Engine.You will learn all the skills needed to make any multiplayer game you can think of using this practical guide. We break down complex multiplayer games into basic components, for different kinds of games, whether they be large multi-user environments or small 8-player action games. You will get started by learning networking technologies for a variety of situations with a Pong game, and also host a game server and learn to connect to it.Then, we will show you how to structure your game logic to work in a multiplayer environment. We will cover how to implement client-side game logic for player-hosted games and server-side game logic for MMO-style games, as well as how to deal with network latency, unreliability, and security.You will then gain an understanding of the Photon Server while creating a star collector game; and later, the Player.IO by creating a multiplayer RTS prototype game. You will also learn using PubNub with Unity by creating a chatbox application. Unity Multiplayer Games will help you learn how to use the most popular networking middleware available for Unity, from peer-oriented setups to dedicated server technology.
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.
Francesco Sapio
With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games.This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we’ll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements.Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD scripting. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface.