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Unity 3D Game Development

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Product type Book

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076142

Pages 370 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Anthony Davis

Travis Baptiste

Russell Craig

Ryan Stunkel

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. A Primer to the Third Dimension

2. Design and Prototype

3. Programming

4. Characters

5. Environment

6. Interactions and Mechanics

7. Rigid Bodies and Physics Interaction

8. User Interface and Menus

9. Visual Effects

10. Sound Effects

11. Build and Test

12. Finishing Touches

13. Bonus: Other Unity Tools!

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Setting up the environment

Programming environment specifically refers to the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that you will use, and the dependencies associated with it. C# is part of .NET Framework from Microsoft, which needs to be installed on your machine to work. Luckily for us, many of the IDEs in the world will install that for you when you start working in C#. Even more luckily for us, Visual Studio, if installed from Unity Hub, is preconfigured and you can get right to developing your project straight away! Let’s go through the steps to see how you can set up your environment.

The Unity environment

Microsoft Visual Studio is free, directly connects to Unity, and comes with tools to help you right off the bat! This is like needing to work on your car and someone just hands you the right tool for what you need as you put your hand in the engine bay.

There are some steps to ensure that every application is talking to each other. Let’s walk through...

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Authors (4)

Anthony Davis

Anthony Davis is a Sr. Tech Artist with AI at Unity. His experience led to a great many hats learning all facets of game development.

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Travis Baptiste

Travis Baptiste is an Artist, father, gamer, and veteran. As a Freelance 3D Artist, he has sharpened his skills through modeling and rendering 3D assets and sketching concepts for projects.

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Russell Craig

Russell Craig is a Sr. Software Engineer at Unity. He has 10 years of professional Unity simulation experience in the areas of app development, product hardware/firmware, sensor and medical training simulations, and AR/VR development.

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Ryan Stunkel

Ryan Stunkel is a professional sound designer for video games who runs Blipsounds. In addition, Ryan is also a teacher and mentor to a community of sound designers through his youtube channel.

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