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Getting Started with Unity 2018

You're reading from   Getting Started with Unity 2018 A Beginner's Guide to 2D and 3D game development with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830102
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Downloading and Installing Unity FREE CHAPTER 2. The Unity Interface 3. Designing the Game 4. Creating Our Terrain 5. Lights, Cameras, and Shadows 6. Creating and Importing 3D Objects for Our Game 7. Implementing Our Player Character 8. Implementing Our Non-Player Characters 9. Adding a Heads-Up Display 10. Scripting Our Points System 11. Scripting Victory and Defeat 12. Adding Audio and Visual Effects to Our Game 13. Optimizing Our Game for Deployment 14. Virtual Reality 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Menu


The Unity editor's main menu bar, as depicted here, consists of eight pull-down options. We will briefly review each menu option in this section. Additional details will be provided in subsequent chapters, as we start developing our Cucumber Beetle game:

Unity's menus are contextual. This means that only menu items pertinent to the currently selected object will be enabled. Other non-applicable menu items will appear as gray instead of black and not be selectable.

Note

Starting with Unity 2018, an additional top menu is Mobile Input. This menu item allows you to toggle mobile input on and off.

Unity

The Unity menu item, shown here, gives us access to information about Unity, our software license, display options, module information, and access to preferences:

Accessing the UnityAbout Unity... menu option gives you access to the version of the engine you are running. There is additional information as well, but you would probably only use this menu option to check your Unity version.

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