Name: Creating Games with Unity and Maya By Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)
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Creating Games with Unity and Maya Summary

Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games by Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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.

Creating Games with Unity and Maya Reviews

Watkins (Univ. of the Incarnate Word) devotes most of the first half of the book to 3-D digital asset creation in Maya with a very light overview of animation. The remainder of the book provides an artist-friendly introduction to game scripting that should be enough to get beginners started on developing games on their own using the game engine. Therefore, those who are new to 3-D modeling, texturing, and character rigging will likely benefit most from this book. 3-D artists who have a working proficiency in Maya or those who are more interested in game design or programming may be b etter served elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels in digital arts or game art programs, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.

--A. Chen, Cogswell Polytechnical College

About Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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.

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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GOR006247751

ISBN 13

9780240818818

ISBN 10

0240818814

Title

Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games by Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

Author

Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2011-07-07

Number of pages

528

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Creating Games with Unity and Maya Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

Creating Games with Unity and Maya by Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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Creating Games with Unity and Maya Summary

Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games by Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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About Adam Watkins (University of the Incarnate Word)

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