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Pros & Cons
Pros
It does a great job at teaching the unity layout and terrain manipulation. I recommend this book to anyone who tried 0 programming or game development.
Great book nonetheless. This is a good quick read to get the ball rolling with unity. There is so much to learn, but the author does well to stick to key points to not make the reader feel overwhelmed.
Cons
While they imply that you'll make a game there is no coding whatsoever in here! Most of the rest is fairly dated as well. The format is very much like reading a child's toy instruction manual. This book is pretty useless for all but the most raw absol... Read More
Free video referenced is no longer free. The author confuses tabs with views. The retail price is not worth the info.
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Quality
It does a great job at teaching the unity layout and well as terrain manipulation adding assets and textures
It has a lot of good information and breaks it down into good step by step directions
If youve never touched a game engine before it would be easy to become overwhelmed with the layout unity has and everything in between
Book doesnt look intimidating to read and the resources it gives you are way more than enough
Price
I bought the kindle version and it was easily worth the price
Low cost investment to learn something fun
Yes its a lot of money for the book 45
Shipping
I even had an issue emailed the author directly and got prompt and helpful responses
Com you receive an almost weekly thursday mail with tips of code and techniques for building your game
So good got through this in 1 day
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great, good, through, easy and basic. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 446 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 28 2024.
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Within a few days you will know the basic concepts
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So you wont be lost in details
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Something changed in unity after the author published the latest version in this book
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I couldnt paint the rock texture on the terrain as explained in this book
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The solutioni created a material
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In the inspector select terrain settings
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Then select paint terrain gt paint texture and create a terrain layer from the map provided by the author and paint it on the terrain
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Then you could paint the rock texture provided by the author too
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