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By: ByDesign Games » Blog Archive » Getting Started With Unity

ByDesign Games » Blog Archive » Getting Started With Unity — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:19:54 +0000

[...] tutorials have also been a mainstay in the community and were the foundation for his book. They do a great job of covering the ins and outs of the terrain tool and give a good overview of [...]

By: Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Getting Started With Unity

Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Getting Started With Unity — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:05 +0000

[...] tutorials have also been a mainstay in the community and were the foundation for his book. They do a great job of covering the ins and outs of the terrain tool and give a good overview of [...]

By: Tom Higgins

Tom Higgins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:15 +0000

@Ed: As the book’s page on Packt Publishing’s website indicates you’ll cover some scripting (like building your own 1st person player character, combining scripting and animations, etc) as well as GUI development (creating menus and “stunning user interfaces with textures and scripting”).

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:22:51 +0000

Man.. I want to get this, maybe a christmas present? He He… 250 or so pages of an in-depth guide to Unity? Nice. My main problem is really scripting (modelling is second, any books on Cheetah 3D anyone?). Is scripting gratly covered in this book? And what about GUIs? I know some basic syntax, but undersatnding what gos where and why and what it does is super tricky..

By: Minevr

Minevr — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:02:44 +0000

Presented to me a copy.Haaaa

By: AngryAnt

AngryAnt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:19:33 +0000

Heh. I check my mailbox on the way to work and sure enough there is my copy

By: AngryAnt

AngryAnt — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:57:30 +0000

Got word that my copy is on its way a little while ago. Did get some time to browse through the copies at the cph office, but its going to be good to have my own copy on the shelf

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:00:12 +0000

I too have just bought this having found Will’s online video tutorials very helpful. So far it’s a great resource and a good read for those interested in Unity, pitched perfectly at a beginner level for the likes of people like me.

I wish you success with this and hope this sells extremely well. Are there any plans for a follow up book pitched at higher level?

By: Will

Will — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:20:11 +0000

Hey Tom, thanks for the awesome write up! Nice of Ashkan to use this as a forum to vent his spleen about documentation, always good to be told what to do when you’re trying to share happy news!

Any other pics of the book you could take would be awesome – my copies of the book weren’t sent to me due to a ‘glitch’ in the system (ahem) at the publishers so have only just been posted as our royal mail service goes on strike, so I won’t see it for a while yet!!

Thanks again to everyone on the Unity team for your help whilst writing the book, I only hope it helps with profile now there is a book to bring further newcomers to such an awesome package! All the best!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:46:12 +0000

@Ashkan – You are a meanie, and you need better manners.

@Will – You are amazing, and this book proves it. I loved your video tutorials and your book. Great stuff and a must have.