A few days ago, my personal book “Unity3D/2D Game Development from 0 to 1 (Second Edition)” was finished after the National Day holiday after seven or eight months of technical preparation and nearly three months of day and night preparation. Take some time today to report the general situation of books to the enthusiastic friends.
At the beginning of 2017, with the rapid iteration release of Unity5.6 and Unity2017Beta, I felt that I should make a deep revision and upgrade of the first version. First of all, for the majority of Unity beginners, game developers, university lecturers, training institutions and so on have done part of the survey, for the feedback received suggestions, ridicule, made careful records and targeted update and rewrite. Unity2017 edition is adopted for teaching, and 60% of the content is rewritten according to the new edition on the basis of the first edition. In theory chapter, all the important knowledge points of Unity2017 are added, and the compilation principles are generally determined as follows: “update”, “more” and “more practical”.
1: “Update” :
The latest version of 2017 is used for explanation, which involves the latest lighting effect of Unity2017, lighting debugging LightExplorer preview technology, powerful film and television animation editing Timeline function, new dynamic baking NavMesh technology, etc.
2: “More”
This version of Untiy for the majority of beginners, universities and training institutions feedback, for the basic and important core chapters (such as Unity2D technology) significantly increase the theoretical explanation, core API summary, the latest version of the addition of components and detailed use examples. For the first edition, the detailed explanation of four projects was added to the game teaching cases, and the last two large-scale 3D games were equipped with new scenes and props, so as to approach the quality of online commercial games, with more high playability and practicality.
3: “More practical”
For regular readers, this edition also focuses on strengthening and updating the depth and breadth of 3D graphics and resource dynamic loading AssetBundle technology. Especially for the AssetBundle technology, the book also provides the commercial level AssetBundle framework package, not only for beginners, for the majority of Unity developers also has a high practical and reference value.
In view of the opinions of teachers in colleges and training institutions, the order and content of some chapters are arranged more rationally in order to achieve better learning experience.
Finally, for Unity beginners and employment for the purpose of the majority of students, the appendix part of the book on the basis of the first edition of the book also added: “unity4.x /5.x/2017. X upgrade differences summary”, “Unity special folder list”, “game development of C# language knowledge base requirements” and other practical content.
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The structure of the books section is as follows:
Actual combat project 1: Memory card… 18
Combat project 2: Flappy Bird. 23
Actual combat project 3: Never Night Parkour… 32
1: Planning… 32
2: Setting up the scene… 35
3: The protagonist… 37
4: Item development… 40
5: Dynamic generation algorithm of scenes and props… 47
6: UI and game cycle management… 51
7: Object buffer pool management… 55
Actual combat project 4: Resident Evil… 58
1: Planning… 58
2: Setting up the scene… 62
3: leading role… 63
4: Item development… 64
5: UI and game cycle management… 67
Chapter 1: Game history and Overview of Unity’s development… 70
Chapter 2 Unity2017.x Installation and 3D Model introduction… 85
Chapter 3 fundamentals of 3D Modeling… 110
Chapter 4 Terrain Editor… 130
Chapter 5 Light Source… 146
Chapter 6 Baking by Light… 154
Chapter 7 Audio… 173
Chapter 8 Unity Scripting… 187
8.1 Introduction to Unity Script Editor… 188
8.2 Script Basics… 190
8.3 Important Unity Script Functions… 192
8.4 Unity Script Life Cycle… 205
8.5 Unity Pseudo-Multithreading Debunked… 211
8.6 Changing the Sequence of Executing Unity Scripts… 213
8.7 Unity Important Application Classes… 215
8.8 Unity Input Manager… 217
8.9 Exercises and Conclusions in this chapter… 220
Chapter 9 UI Interface development… 221
9.1 an overview of… 222
9.2 Basic Controls… 224
9.3 Anchor Anchor and screen adaptive… 235
9.4 Advanced UGUI Controls… 237
9.5 UGUI Layout Management Controls… 244
9.6 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 247
9.7 Case Development Tasks… 248
Chapter 10 3D Modeling and Animation… 249
Chapter 11 Physics Simulation… 272
Chapter 12 Colliders and Triggers… 295
Chapter 13 Unity2D Technology… 307
13.1 an overview of… 308
13.2 Project Examples…… 308
13.3 Untiy2D Physics Engine… 313
13.3.1 2D Rigid Body… 313
13.3.2 2D collider… 314
13.3.3 2D Joint System… 315
13.4 Unity2D Effects… 317
13.4.1 Sprite Mask… 317
13.4.2 Sprite Effector Components… 319
13.5 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 324
Chapter 14 Coroutines and Calling Functions… 325
Chapter 15 Data Transfer Techniques… 331
Chapter 16 3D Mathematics… 338
16.1 Coordinate System… 339
16.2 vector… 346
16.3 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 356
Chapter 17 3D Graphics… 357
17.1 3D Graphics… 358
17.2 Unity 3D Graphics Rendering… 359
17.2.1 Mesh Fillter Filter… 359
Mesh Renderer… 359
Skinned MeshRenderer Skinned MeshRenderer… 361
17.3 map… 362
17.3.1 2d Mapping… 363
17.3.2 Video Mapping… 369
17.3.3 Rendering textures… 373
17.4 the material… 375
17.4.1 Material System based on Physical Coloring (PBS)… 375
17.4.2 Texture Ball Properties… 377
17.4.3 Material Ball Classification… 378
17.5 Shader 385
17.5.1 overview… 385
17.5.2 Rationale: Graphic Rendering Pipelines… 386
17.5.3 Classification and basic structure of shaders… 388
17.5.4 Fixing the Render Pipeline Shader… 391
17.5.5 Surface Shaders… 393
17.6 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 402
Chapter 18 TimeLine& Cinemachine Technology… 403
18.1 TimeLine… 404
18.2 Cinemachine Virtual Camera… 408
18.3 Frame Recorder Frame Recorder… 410
18.4 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 412
Chapter 19 Particle Systems… 413
19.5 Script Invocation method of particle System…… 424
19.6 LineRenderer & TrailRenderer426
19.7 Exercises and Summaries in this chapter… 429
Chapter 20 Mecanim Animation System… 430
20.1: an overview… 431
20.2: Making Mecanim animation system… 431
20.3: Fusion techniques… 440
20.4: Animation Layers and body masks… 445
20.5: Animation reuse technology… 448
20.6: StateMachineBehaviour script… 449
20.7: Practice and summary of this chapter… 451
Chapter 21 Navigation… 452
21.1 Basic Navigation Pathfinding…… 453
21.2 Slopes and Jumps… 456
21.3 Using the Off Mesh Link Component… 458
21.4 Grid Layering… 459
21.5 Navmesh Obstacle Components… 461
21.6 New Component-based NavMesh Features… 463
21.7 Navigation Mesh Orientation in any direction in 3D Space… 465
21.8 New NavMesh Dynamic Baking features… 466
21.9 Exercises and Conclusions in this Chapter… 468
Chapter 22 Common optimization Strategies for project r&d… 469
22.1 Occlusion Culling 470
22.2 Level detail (LOD)… 474
22.3 Project Tuning Tool Data Profiler… 477
22.4 Project Optimization Strategy… 479
22.4.1 Project optimization DrawCall479
22.4.2 Models and images for project optimization… 481
22.4.3 Lighting and camera aspects of project optimization… 483
22.4.4 Program optimization of project optimization… 486
22.4.5 Unity system setting for project optimization… 487
22.4.6 Good development and use habits of project optimization… 488
22.5 Exercises and Summaries in this chapter… 489
Chapter 23 Unity Game porting and Finger Touch Recognition… 490
23.1: JDK Installation and Environment parameter Configuration… 491
23.2: Android VM Installation and Configuration… 498
23.3: Unity configuration… 501
23.4: Finger touch recognition… 505
23.5 Exercises and Conclusions in this chapter… 509
Chapter 24 Software Refactoring Ideas… 510
Chapter 25 Ray… 516
Chapter 26 Data Persistence Techniques… 522
Chapter 27 Preloading and Object buffer Pool Techniques… 531
27.1 an overview of… 532
27.2 Simple Object Buffer Pool Technology… 533
27.3 Advanced Object Buffer Pool Technology… 538
27.4 Exercises and Conclusions in this chapter… 544
Chapter 28 Network Basics… 545
28.1 Network Overview… 546
28.2 Multi-threading… 546
28.3 Socket Technology…… 552
28.4 Downloading WWW Class from the Network… 559
28.5 Exercises and Conclusions in this chapter… 561
Chapter 29 dynamic Loading of AssetBundle Resources 562
29.1 Overview of AssetBundle… 563
29.2 Creating assetBundle.563
29.3 Downloading AssetBundle.564
29.4 Loading and Uninstalling AssetBundle… 566
29.5 AssetBundle Dependencies… 567
29.6 Exercises and Conclusions in this chapter… 568
Chapter 30 AssetBundle Framework Design… 569
30.1 AssetBundle Framework Design… 570
30.2 Automate the creation of assetBundle.572
30.2.1 Automatically Adding Tags to Resource Files… 572
30.2.2 Package Resources and Output Paths… 574
30.2.3 Deleting All Resources in a Path… 575
30.3 Loading and Managing a single AssetBundle… 576
30.4 AssetBundle Management… 578
30.4.1: Reading the project manifest file… 578
30.4.1: AssetBundle Relational classes… 579
30.4.3: AssetBundle General Management Class… 580
30.4.4: Multiple AssetBundle Management classes… 581
30.5 Exercises and summaries in this chapter… 583
Appendix A National Unity game R & D position written test interview real questions collection… 584
Appendix B Common Mistakes and Analysis in Unity development… 589
Appendix C Game Development Job Resume Template… 591
Appendix D Unity4.x/5.x/2017.x Upgrade Differences summary… 596
Appendix E List of Unity Special Folders… 599
Appendix F basic requirements for C# language knowledge in game development… 601
The author estimates that this book can be released on the market in January 2018, when we give more support
IT technology changes with each passing day, I believe Unity technology will develop better and better. Maybe in two or three years Unity2019, 2020… The publication of this edition will lead to the preparation and publication of a third edition of this book. Finally, thank you for your care and love. If you have any questions, please leave a message. \
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