You're reading from Mind-Melding Unity and Blender for 3D Game Development Unleash the power of Unity and Blender to create amazing games

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071550

Length 460 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Blender

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Spencer Grey

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: There and Back Again – An Asset Roundtrip with Unity and Blender

2. Chapter 1: Melding Unity and Blender FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Gathering Our Resources

4. Chapter 3: Entering the Blender Zone for the First Time

5. Chapter 4: Asset Assimilation: Returning to Unity

6. Section 2: The Right Stuff: Scenery, Props, and Characters

7. Chapter 5: On the Level: Making Modular Scenery

8. Chapter 6: Living It Up: Adding Fun with Animation

9. Chapter 7: Prep Work: Materials, Grids, and Snapping

10. Chapter 8: Laying Out the Level

11. Chapter 9: Secret Weapon #1: Deploying ProBuilder

12. Chapter 10: Secret Weapon #2: Animating with Timeline

13. Chapter 11: We Could Be Heroes: Blender Character Modeling

14. Chapter 12: It Was Rigged!: Character Rigging

15. Section 3: Assets Assemble! Putting It All Together

16. Chapter 13: Animation and Movement In-Game

17. Chapter 14: Endgame: Adding Spit and Polish

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the Asset Store

Okay, so far in our project we have some empty folders. Very exciting. Let's start filling them up at one of any Unity developer's favorite websites: the Unity Asset Store!

What is the Asset Store?

The Asset Store is an indie dev's dream: it is a digital marketplace offering quality content of every type imaginable, but it is also a bargain bin filled with hidden treasures available at little to no cost. How do you get to this place of wonders? Well, one way is from the Unity editor. In the top menu bar, choose Window > Asset Store.

Doing this will pop open a new window. But what's this? Where is the Asset Store?

Fig. 2.6 – The Asset Store moved! Where'd it go?

Fear not! The Asset Store used to be accessible from within the Unity editor but is now only usable via a browser. This is because of Unity's effort to improve editor performance. It's no big deal.

Notice there is a checkbox...