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Discover how you can enhance your games with Blender

Learn how to implement Blender in real-world scenarios

Create new or modify existing assets in Blender and import them into your Unity game

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Blender is an incredibly powerful, free computer graphics program that provides a world-class, open-source graphics toolset for creating amazing assets in 3D. With Mind-Melding Unity and Blender for 3D Game Development, you'll discover how adding Blender to Unity can help you unlock unlimited new possibilities and reduce your reliance on third parties for creating your game assets. This game development book will broaden your knowledge of Unity and help you to get to grips with Blender's core capabilities for enhancing your games. You'll become familiar with creating new assets and modifying existing assets in Blender as the book shows you how to use the Asset Store and Package Manager to download assets in Unity and then export them to Blender for modification. You'll also learn how to modify existing and create new sci-fi-themed assets for a minigame project. As you advance, the book will guide you through creating 3D model props, scenery, and characters and demonstrate UV mapping and texturing. Additionally, you'll get hands-on with rigging, animation, and C# scripting. By the end of this Unity book, you'll have developed a simple yet exciting mini game with audio and visual effects, and a GUI. More importantly, you'll be ready to apply everything you've learned to your Unity game projects.

What you will learn

Transform your imagination into 3D scenery, props, and characters using Blender

Get to grips with UV unwrapping and texture models in Blender

Understand how to rig and animate models in Blender

Animate and script models in Unity for top-down, FPS, and other types of games

Find out how you can roundtrip custom assets from Blender to Unity and back

Become familiar with the basics of ProBuilder, Timeline, and Cinemachine in Unity

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soo345 Apr 12, 2022

What a fun way to learn some new skills! The author has a great way of delivering informative content in an entertaining way. Plus, he gives away the Secret Ultimate Unity tip. Bonus!

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Guy Stevens Jan 10, 2022

This book has a lot of helpful information in it. From working in Blender to exporting what you build in Blender to Unity. From there it delves into Unity to setting up your new asset(your exported Blender FBX file) and creating a modular 3D scene. And adding animations to your turret and player. It goes into many aspects of game development including scripting in C#. The author should mention that Blender has a built in rotation correction tool as Blender and Unity are rotation-ally mirror-ed. Although, it says experimental many people have used it when exporting with success. I am quite knowledgeable with Blender, and Unity. This resource has 421 pages in it. I'll review it some more, and if I see something wrong I'll adjust my review. But right now, I see it as very helpful.

Amazon Customer Feb 24, 2022

The author has a really engaging way of writing which makes this book very fun to read through and follow along with tutorials. The book includes a range of sequential learning material for the programs. I was super excited to find a lot of C# scripts, which for me, tend to be the most daunting part of game development in Unity. I think book formatting could be a little easier to navigate, and in the introductory region could be a tad more concise, and more concentrated with information. Overall, this is a great resource for independent developers and students of game development.

Alexa Jan 11, 2022

I'm new to game development so I started working through this book and I'm LOVING IT. In particular, I really like the playful writing style. It makes you feel like the author's right by your side, encouraging you to learn and have a good time. The instructions are detailed and the reasoning is solid. He also slips in a lot of best practices from naming variables to troubleshooting bugs. Lastly, he does a great job providing links to additional resources and pointing out the large community supporting these tools. I'm really looking forward to digging into more of the examples.

Spencer Grey Feb 08, 2022

Speaking as the author--which I am--I think I did a pretty darn good job considering this is my first book and I had to use all 26 letters of the English alphabet, including 'z' which is correctly pronounced "zee" and not "zed." As mentioned in the book, should the Earth happen to be invaded in the near future this pronunciation will be mandatory so you might as well start getting used to it now.Astute readers will notice that I not only resorted to using nouns and verbs, but also branched out into somewhat clever uses of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.It is my hope that since embeddable smartchips are not yet available for your mammalian species this learning-book will be an accessible and entertaining knowledge-transfer mechanism for both beginner and more advanced game developers. Ad astra per aspera!

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