Mind-Melding Unity and Blender for 3D Game Development: Unleash the power of Unity and Blender to create amazing games

Cover
Copyright and credits
Contributors
About the reviewers
Table of Contents
Title Page
Preface
Section 1: There and Back Again – An Asset Roundtrip with Unity and Blender
Chapter 1: Melding Unity and Blender
	What is Unity?
		Top 12 Reasons for Using Unity
	What Is Blender?
		Top 8 and a Half Reasons for Using Blender
	Requirements for this Book
		Knowledge Prerequisites
		Software Prerequisites
		Hardware Prerequisites
		How to Read This Book
	Getting Additional Help
	Summary
Chapter 2: Gathering Our Resources
	Technical Requirements
	Creating Our Unity Project
		The Unity Hub
		Selecting a Project Template
		Your new project
		Creating the project folders
	Defining Our Mini-Game Level
		Mini-Game Gameplay Mechanics
	Using the Asset Store
		What is the Asset Store?
		Searching the Asset Store
	Using the Package Manager
	Getting ready for Blender
		Installing the FBX Exporter package
		Exporting the turret
	Additional Assets to Download
		Audio Assets
		Textures
	Summary
Chapter 3: Entering the Blender Zone for the First Time
	Technical Requirements
	Introducing Blender
		The Toolbar (Area 1)
		Editor, mode selection, and mode menus (Area 2)
		Pivot, Snap, and Proportional Editing (Area 3)
		Header menu bar (Area 4)
		View modes and tools (Area 5)
		Axes Gizmo (Area 6)
		Zoopancamper! (Area 7)
		The Outliner Panel (Area 8)
		The Properties Panel (Area 9)
		The Status Bar (Area 10)
	Monkeying Around with the Monkey Head
		Translation: Moving the Monkey
		Rotation: Twirling the Monkey
		Scaling: Mushing the Monkey
		The Sidebar
		Applying your transforms
		Getting ready to move on
	Entering Edit Mode
		Creating a Monkey-corn
	Altering the Turret
		Carving Out a Lid
		Creating the launch tube
		Creating the Struts
		Fixing a flaw
	Summary
Chapter 4: Asset Assimilation: Returning to Unity
	Technical Requirements
	Preparing the Turret for Gameplay
		Importing the Turret
		Restructuring the Turret
		Texturing the turret
		Creating a material for the missile tube
		Applying the material to the tube
		Planning the turret behavior
		Adding in iTween
	Scripting the Turret
		Setting up turret actions
		Tag, you\'re it! Creating a placeholder player hero
		Finally, Scanning!
		Testing the ScanAction
		Preparing for the ShootAction
		Creating the ShootAction
		Testing the ShootAction: Pew! Pew! Pew!
		Preparing for the LaunchAction
		Creating the LaunchAction
		Testing the LaunchAction
		Code Checklist for the Chapter
		The Ultimate Advanced Unity Tip
	Summary
Section 2: The Right Stuff: Scenery, Props, and Characters
Chapter 5: On the Level: Making Modular Scenery
	Technical Requirements
	Understanding Modular Level Design
		Setting our Goals
		The Humble Floor
		Walls and corners
	Blocking Out our Level
	A Quick Recap of our Blender Know-How
		Navigation and hot-keys
		Knowing Your Numpad
	Creating Floors
	Creating a Wall
		Creating a wall corner
	Texture Mapping, UV Mapping/Unwrapping, and Materials
		UV Mapping 101
		UV Unwrapping 101
		Materials 101
		Unwrapping and texturing the Wall
		Working in the UV Editing Workspace
		Unwrapping and texturing the wall corner
	Summary
Chapter 6: Living It Up: Adding Fun with Animation
	Technical Requirements
	Understanding Basic Animation Concepts
		Keyframes
	Animating in Blender
		Frame rate
		Working with Keyframes
		Auto-keying
		Markers
	Creating Animated Blastdoors
		Blastdoor creation scheme
		Creating the Blastdoor Doorframe
		Creating the Simple Door
		Animating the Simple Door
		Creating the Complex Door
		Animating the complex door
	Texturing the Blastdoors
		Texturing the Doorframe
		Texturing the Simple Door
		Texturing the Complex Door
	Exporting Your Goodies
	Summary
Chapter 7: Prep Work: Materials, Grids, and Snapping
	Technical Requirements
	Getting Our Act Together: Collecting Our Great Stuff in Unity
		Importing into Unity
	Living in a Material World: Materials for Walls, Doors, and Floors
		Creating our new materials
	Snapping and the Scene Grid
		Changing the color of the grid lines
		Vertex Snapping
	Summary
Chapter 8: Laying Out the Level
	Technical Requirements
	Laying Out the Level
		Level Layout Tips
		Areas A and B
		Area C
		Area C2
		Area D
		Area E
		Area F
		Area G
	The Sky\'s the Limit: Adding a Skybox
	Sounds Like Trouble: Adding some Audio Effects
	Summary
Chapter 9: Secret Weapon #1: Deploying ProBuilder
	Technical Requirements
	An Introduction to ProBuilder
		ProBuilder vs. Blender
	History of ProBuilder
	Installing ProBuilder
	Exploring The ProBuilder Toolbar
		Orange-Colored Options – Tools and Editors
		Creating Objects with ProBuilder
		Blue Colored Options: Selection Modifiers and Actions
		Green Colored Options: Object Editing Tools
		Red-Colored Options: Element Editing Tools
		Other ProBuilder options
	Bridgework – Making Movable Scenery
	Summary
Chapter 10: Secret Weapon #2: Animating with Timeline
	Technical Requirements
	Introducing Timeline
		When to use Timeline for animation
		Timeline Tracks
	Prepping the Prism: Getting our asset ready to animate
		Creating the Prism Prefab
	Captain to the Bridge!—Animating our Bridge with Timeline
		Creating a Timeline
		Creating an Animation Track
		The Plan for the Bridge
		Recording an Infinite Clip
		Animating the prism walkway
		Previewing your Animation
		Finishing the bridge animation
		Adding Audio
	Summary
Chapter 11: We Could Be Heroes: Blender Character Modeling
	Technical Requirements
	Blender Command Review
		3D View Commands
		Miscellaneous 3D View Commands
		Edit Mode Commands
		Pro Tip: Faster Command Access
	Prepping for the marine
		Organizing the objects in your scene
		Randomizing Colors
	Modeling the Marine
		Head
		Torso
		The Arm
		The Hand
		The Leg
	The Boot
		Touchups
		Parenting
		Finalizing the Model and the File
	Summary
Chapter 12: It Was Rigged!: Blender Character Rigging
	Technical Requirements
	Just One Thing…
	UV-Unwrapping and Texturing the Marine
		UV Unwrapping Refresher
		Loading the texture image into the UV space
		Getting started with the Marine
		Processing the Head
		Processing the Torso
		Processing the Arms
		Processing the Hands
		Processing the Legs
		Processing the Feet
	Rigging the Marine
	Exporting the marine
	Getting started with Mixamo
	Doing excellent things with the marine
	Downloading Animations
	Summary
Section 3: Assets Assemble! Putting It All Together
Chapter 13: Animation and Movement In-Game
	Technical Requirements
	Getting the marine ready for duty
		Creating and applying the marine material
		Creating the marine prefab
		Animating the Marine
	Adding lights to the level
	Marine movement and Camera Control
		Camera Tracking with Secret Weapon #4: Cinemachine
	Animating the Scenery
		Animating the Blast doors
		Animating the Bridge
	Summary
Chapter 14: Endgame: Adding Spit and Polish
	Technical Requirements
	Make with the shooting already
		Preparing to Shoot
		Adding Sound to the shooting
		Scripting the Shooting, Part I
		Scripting the Shooting, Part II
		A Marine Checklist
	Making the Turrets Go Boom
		A Checklist for the Turret and Missile
		Debugging the Mayhem
	Creating a Main Menu
		Changing the menu text
		Adding audio to the menu
		Setting Up Scene Loading
	Adding Post Processing
	Creating the Final Room
	Summary
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