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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788830102

Length 336 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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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 Unity | About 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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Authors (1)

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr. is a seasoned software developer and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has developed software for over 30 years and primarily focused on Java for over 20 years. His experience includes both military information systems and the software design and development industry. Dr. Lavieri currently serves as a university dean for a college of computer science and a school of information technology as well as the chief academic officer of a programming bootcamp organization, all part of a regionally accredited US university. He holds a doctorate degree in computer science and a master's degree in information systems, along with other degrees and certificates.

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