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

An Introduction to ProBuilder

ProBuilder is an extremely useful built-in Unity package that lets you build, edit, and texture custom geometry. It is often described as a hybrid tool for 3D modeling and level design, optimized for building simple meshes but capable of detailed editing and UV unwrapping too. ProBuilder is great for in-scene level design, quick prototyping of structures, terrain features, vehicles, and weapons, as well as custom collision geometry, trigger zones, or nav meshes. Whew! That's a lot of versatility.

ProBuilder also has advanced features that include UV editing, vertex coloring, and parametric shapes. You can also export your meshes to tweak them in any external 3D modeling suite (Blender, of course, being our first choice!).

As if all that wasn't enough, ProBuilder has its own Scripting API to let you take advantage of many of its features from your own C# scripts. Mamma mia (as all Earthlings say)!