Unity for Absolute Beginners

Sue Blackman has been an instructor in the 3D field for nearly 20 years at art schools and community colleges. She has been involved with the commercial development of real-time 3D engines for more than 10 years. In the past, she has been a contributing author for New Riders Press (Max4 Magic) and written for AMC Siggraph on serious games. She has written product training materials and instruction manuals for developing content with real-time 3D applications, used by multimedia departments in Fortune 1000 companies including Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, among others. In addition to writing and teaching, Sue has been the lead 3D artist on several games for Activision and its subsidiaries.

• 1. The Unity Editor 2. Unity Basics 3. Navigation and Physics 4. Importing Static Assets 5. Scripting with C# 6. Mecanim and Animation 7. Populating the Game Environment 8. Weaponry and Special Effects 9. Incorporating Unity 2D 10. Menus and Levels 11. Bonus Features Appendix: Rigging with Mixamo

"I found this book interesting and well written. Its arguments are fresh and explained in detail. ... I recommend this book for absolute beginners." (Tommaso Mazza, Computing Reviews, computingreviews.com, May, 2016)