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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide A seat-of-your-pants manual for building fun, groovy little games quickly with Unity 4.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695268
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. That's One Fancy Hammer! FREE CHAPTER 2. Let's Start with the Sky 3. Game #1 – Ticker Taker 4. Code Comfort 5. Game #2 – Robot Repair 6. Game #2 – Robot Repair Part 2 7. Don't Be a Clock Blocker 8. Hearty Har Har 9. Game #3 – The Break-Up 10. Game #3 – The Break-Up Part 2 11. Game #4 – Shoot the Moon 12. Game #5 – Kisses 'n' Hugs 13. AI Programming and World Domination 14. Action! Appendix Index

Time for action – futurize the bullet


A dull, gray bullet just won't cut it in a sci-fi game. Let's make a neon-green Material and apply it to the bullet, because in the distant future, bullets are obviously neon-green. I have this crazy hunch.

  1. In the Project panel, create a new Material. Rename the new Material Bullet.

  2. Click to select the new Bullet Material.

  3. In the Inspector panel, click on the Material's color swatch and choose neon space-bullet green. I chose these values:

    R: 9

    G: 255

    B: 0

  4. In the Hierarchy panel, select the Bullet GameObject.

  5. In the Inspector panel, find the Mesh Renderer component.

  6. Apply the Bullet Material to the Bullet. You can either do this by choosing the Bullet Material in the Element 0 popup of the Materials section, or by clicking and dragging the Bullet Material into the slot. (You may have to click on the gray arrow to open the Material list first.) You can also drag the Material onto the GameObject in either the Hierarchy or the Scene view.

  7. Uncheck Cast Shadows...

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