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Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development Build, customize, and optimize professional games using Unity 2020 and C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642006
Length 580 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and GameObjects 4. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 5. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 6. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 7. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and VFX Graph 8. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 9. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with postprocessing 10. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 11. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 12. Chapter 12: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 13. Chapter 13: Introduction to Unity Scripting with C# 14. Chapter 14: Implementing Movement and Spawning 15. Chapter 15: Physics Collisions and Health System 16. Chapter 16: Win and Lose Conditions 17. Chapter 17: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 18. Chapter 18: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 19. Chapter 19: Scene Performance Optimization 20. Chapter 20: Building the Project 21. Chapter 21: Finishing Touches 22. Chapter 22: Augmented Reality in Unity 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating Shapes with ProBuilder

So far, we have created simple scenes using cubes and primitive shapes, and that's enough for most of the prototypes you will create, but sometimes, you will have tricky areas of the game that would be difficult to model with regular cubes, or maybe you want to have some deeper details in certain parts of your game to get a visual of how the player will feel that area. In this case, we can use any 3D modeling tools for this, such as 3D studio, Maya, or Blender, but those can be difficult to learn and you probably won't need all their power at this stage of your development. Luckily, Unity has a simple 3D model creator called ProBuilder, so let's explore it.

In this section, we will cover the following concepts related to ProBuilder:

  • Installing ProBuilder
  • Creating a shape
  • Manipulating the mesh
  • Adding details

ProBuilder is not included by default in our Unity project, so let's start by learning how we can...

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