Practical Unity Game Development [Video]

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Practical Unity Game Development [Video]

Francesco Sapio

Friday, August 31, 2018

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Your one-stop guide to building amazing games with Unity!

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Video Details

ISBN 13 9781788837286

Course Length 7 hours 39 minutes

Getting Started with the New Features

The Course Overview

Installing Unity with Unity Hub

Creating a New Project

Importing a Character

Setting Up the Scene

Controlling Animations with Timelines

Timelines Overview

Preparing the Props

Animation Tracks – Part I

Animation Tracks – Part II

Controlling Timelines Through Scripting

Directing with Cinemachine

Upgrading Our Project to the Latest Unity Version

Blending Between Cameras

Other Features of Cinemachine

A New Flat 2D World in Unity

Setting Up Our 2D Project

Creating a Palette

Painting the Level

Player Movement Script

Colliders in Tilemap

Custom Scriptable Tiles

Custom Scriptable Brushes

Directing Also in 2D with Cinemachine

Experimenting Some Other Tiles and Brushes

Shader Graphs

Setting Up Our Shader Graph Project

Shader Graph Overview

Glowing Material – Part I

Textures and Sub-Graphs

Glowing Material – Part II

Overlay (Under Water Effect)

Color by Distance

Dissolve Effect

Advance Dissolve Effect

Controlling Material Parameters Through Scripting

Slicing Lola

Teleporting Lola

Unlit Graphs

Tips and Tricks for Shader Graphs

Post Processing and Rendering

Setting Up Our Rendering Project

Using Post Processing

Animating with Post Processing

Particle Systems

Text-Mesh Pro

GPU Instancing – Part I

GPU Instancing – Part II

Unity 2018.2 New Features

Video Description

Unity 3D is an industry standard tool, and this course will help you to master the latest features of the engine and bring your projects to success. This will include becoming familiar with Shader Graphs, Tilemap, Post Processing, Cinemachine, Timelines and other built-in tools.

You will make breathtaking cut-scenes with the Timeline tools to enhance your game with action scenes, as well as direct every camera in the game by using Cinemachine, from gameplay to cutscenes, making your games always feel natural.

In addition, you will build impressive 2D maps with Tilemap in no time, by customizing Tiles and Brushes, speeding up the level design process, and creating designing tools for yourself or your team.

Moreover, you will create stunning materials with Shader Graph that can bring the look of your game to the next level, including creating special effects such as dissolve, teleporting or slicing.

Finally, you will master the new rendering techniques such as GPU instancing to show thousands of assets on screen at once with little performance cost and give a specific mood or feel to your game by learning all about the new Post-Processing effects and how animate and blend between them.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available on Github at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Unity-Game-Development

Style and Approach

This video course will take a hands-on approach, full of examples and easy to follow concepts that will enable you to complete tasks which will help them to gain confidence in using Unity.

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What You Will Learn

Master the latest features of Unity and bring your projects to success
Make breathtaking cut-scenes with the Timeline tools to enhance your game with action scenes
Direct with Cinemachine every camera in the game, from gameplay to cutscenes, to make your games feel natural always
Build impressive 2D maps with Tilemap in no time, by customizing Tiles and Brushes, speeding the level design process, and creating designing tools for yourself or team
Create stunning materials with Shader Graph that can bring to the next level your game looking, including creating special effects such as dissolve, teleporting or slicing
Master the new rendering techniques such as GPU instancing to show thousands of assets on screen at once with little performance cost
Give a specific mood or feel to your game by learning all about the new Post-Processing effects and how animate and blend between them

Authors

Francesco Sapio

Francesco Sapio is an Unity expert, having worked with the engine for several years, and wrote many books about it. He is a skilled game designer, and experienced user of major graphics programs. He developed Game@School (Sapienza University of Rome), an educational game for high-school students to learn concepts of physics, and the Sticker Book series (Dataware Games), a cross-platform series of games for kids. In addition, he worked as consultant for the (successfully funded by Kickstarter) game Prosperity – Italy 1434 (Entertainment Game Apps, Inc) and for the open online collaborative ideation system titled Innovoice (Sapienza University of Rome). Moreover, he has been involved in different research projects such as Belief-Driven Pathfinding (Sapienza University of Rome), which is a new technique of path finding in video games that was presented as a paper at the DiGRAFDG Conference 2016; and perfekt.ID (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), which included developing a recommendation system for games.

You can contact him at www.francescosapio.com.

Getting Started with the New Features

The Course Overview

Installing Unity with Unity Hub

Creating a New Project

Importing a Character

Setting Up the Scene

Controlling Animations with Timelines

Timelines Overview

Preparing the Props

Animation Tracks – Part I

Animation Tracks – Part II

Recording Animations