Adam Watkins

Creating Games with Unity and Maya (eBook, ePUB)

How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unity brings you ever closer to the "author once, deploy anywhere" dream. With its multiplatform capabilities, you can target desktop, web, mobile devices, and consoles using a single development engine. Little wonder that Unity has quickly become the #1 game engine out there.

Mastering Unity is absolutely essential in an increasingly competitive games market where agility is expected, yet until now practical tutorials were nearly impossible to find.

Creating Games with Unity and Maya gives you with an end-to-end solution for Unity game development with Maya. Written by a twelve-year veteran of the 3D animation and games industry and professor of 3D animation, this book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing an entire game from scratch-including coding, art, production, and deployment.

This accessible guide provides a "non-programmer" entry point to the world of game creation. Aspiring developers with little or no coding experience will learn character development in Maya, scripts, GUI interface, and first- and third-person interactions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 549
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136126291
• Artikelnr.: 38246318

Autorenporträt

Adam Watkins is Associate Professor, 3D Animation, School of Interactive Media & Design at the University of the Incarnate Word. He is currently on a research sabbatical at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he is part of the VISIBLE effort creating virtual simulation games for use in non-proliferation exercises. Watkins has headed the 3D Animation program for over ten years and is the author of several books and over 100 articles on 3D Animation. His students are the winners of multiple national and international animation awards and festivals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Game Production Process
Chapter 2 Asset Creation
Chapter 3 Asset Creation
Chapter 4 Asset Creation
Chapter 5 Asset Creation
Chapter 6 Asset Creation
Chapter 7 Asset Creation
Chapter 8 Asset Creation
Chapter 9 Asset Creation
Chapter 10 Asset Creation
Chapter 11 Unity Sound
Chapter 12 Introduction to Unity Scripting Basics and Graphical User Interface
Chapter 13 Unity Triggers
Chapter 14 Unity Raycasting
Chapter 15 Unity Prefabs and Instantiation
Chapter 16 Unity
Chapter 17 Health Systems, Winning, and Losing the Game
Chapter 18 Unity Debugging, Optimization, and Builds

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Preface

Introduction

Why this book?

Who's it for, and how to use it?

Hobbyist strategies

Game Developer usage

Teacher

Student

Structure

Maya, then Unity

Reasoning

Book Paradigm

Assumptions

What we won't be covering

Artist Approach vs Programmer/Engineer Approach

This book is based upon artist approach

Chapter 1 - Game Production Process

Game Production Team Members (or roles)

All roles can be done by one person

Game Production Pipeline in Unity

Conceptualization

Audience

Theme

Conceptualization Artwork

Art Assets Creation

Models

Textures

Animation

Lighting

Game Mechanics

Scripting Team

Game Play

Physics

Varia

What needs to be done when

Flexibility of Unity's approach

What parts aren't so flexible.

How this book mimics the Game Production Process

Introduction to The Game we will be producing in the book.

Chapter 2 - Asset Creation: Maya Scenography Modeling

Scenography Mdeling within the Game Desing Pipeling

So Why Maya Tutorials?

A Bit of 3D Theory

Rendering

Video Cards

Limitation and Optimization for Games

Rules of 3D Game Modeling

Polycount Matters

Topology is Critical

On to the Tools

Tutorial 2.1 Game Level Modeling : The Entryway

Homework and Challenges

Chapter 3 - Asset Creation: Maya Scenography UV Mapping

Scenography UV Mapping within the Game Design Pipeline

UVs

Exploring the UV Texture Editor

Tutorial 3.1 Game Level UV Layout: Tools and Techniques

Homework and Challenges

Chapter 4 - Asset Creation: Maya Sceongraphy Texturing

Scenography Texturing within the Game Design Pipleline

Textures, Materials & Shaders

Nature of Effective Textures

Be Square

Power of Two

Seamless Textures

Maya and Unity

Tutorials

Tutorial 4.1 Seamless Tiled Textures

Tutorial 4.2 Non-Tiled Textures and Their Dirt

Chapter 5 - Asset Creation: Unity Scenography Importing

Introduction to Unity Space

Tutorial 5.1 Creating a Unity Project

Tutorial 5.2 Exporting from Maya

Tutorial 5.3 Importing, Tweaking and Placing Scenography Assets into Unity

Chapter 6 - Asset Creation: Unity Scenography Creation Tools

Introduction to Non-Imported Assets in Unity

Tutorial 6.1 Adding, Manipulating and Understanding Water

Tutorial 6.2 Terrain Creation

Tutorial 6.3 Tree Building

Tutorial 6.4 Particle Creation

Chapter 7 - Lighting & Baking

What's the big deal with lighting?

To light in Maya or Unity?

Tutorial 7.1 Lighting Game Level in Unity

Baking, textures and AO

Tutorial 7.2 Baking in Unity

Light maps in Unity

Tutorial 7.3 Using Light maps in Unity

Chapter 8 - Asset Creation: Maya Character Creations

Low Poly character techniques

Topology mastery

Tutorial 3.1 Game Character Modeling

Character UV

Tutorial 3.2 Game Character UV Mapping

Character Textures

Tutorial 3.3 Game Character Texturing

Chapter 9 - Asset Creation: Character Rigging and Animation and Import

Brief discussion of rigging, skinning, and animation in Maya

Tutorial 4.1 Rigging Game Character

Tutorial 4.2 Skinning Game Character

Game Animation Methodology

Tutorial 4.3 Character Idle

Unity & Animation

Tutorial 4.4 Importing Animated Character and Testing

Chapter 10 - Unity Physics

Physics engines. PhysX

Newtonian physics

Unity's use

"Frame miss"

Elements needed for physics calculations

Limitations and overhead

Tutorial 7.1 Booby Traps and Physics in Unity

Ragdoll

Tutorial 7.2 Ragdoll Implementation

Chapter 11 - Unity Script: Syntax

Power and frustration of scripting

Scripting Overview

Syntax Discussion

MonoBehaviour

Commands

Functions

Variables

Inputs

Time

Components

Vectors

Coroutines

Yields

Scripting Cheat Sheets

Tutorial 8.1 Constructing Basic Scripts from Scratch

Chapter 12 - Unity Script: Triggers

What are