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Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2021 Game Development Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2021

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071482
Length 710 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Our First Level
2. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity 4. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and Game Objects 5. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 6. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 7. Section 2 – Improving Graphics and Sound
8. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 9. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 10. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 11. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with Postprocessing 12. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 13. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 14. Chapter 12: Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit 15. Chapter 13: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 16. Section 3 – Scripting Level Interactivity with C#
17. Chapter 14: Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting 18. Chapter 15: Implementing Movement and Spawning 19. Chapter 16: Physics Collisions and Health System 20. Chapter 17: Win and Lose Condition 21. Chapter 18: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 22. Chapter 19: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 23. Chapter 20: Scene Performance Optimization 24. Section 4 – Releasing Your Game
25. Chapter 21: Building the Project 26. Chapter 22: Finishing Touches 27. Chapter 23: Augmented Reality in Unity 28. 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 greater detail in certain parts of your game to get a visual of how the player will feel in 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...

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