GAME 351 Assignment 1 - README

Team Members: MiLee Vogel, Cougar Bellinger, Minh Le, Robin Zheng

Overview

This Unity project is part of the GAME 351 course, aimed at implementing a basic 3D game scene. The scene features an android named Jammo who has crash-landed on a medieval-themed planet. The project showcases various game development elements, including character control, terrain manipulation, and environmental detailing.

Implemented Features

Core Features

1. Character Control

   • Basic movement for the player character (forward, backward, left, right) using the WASD or arrow keys.
   • Rotation control using 'A' and 'D' or the left and right arrow keys.

2. Follow Camera

   • A 3rd person perspective camera that follows Jammo around, maintaining a consistent orientation relative to the character's back.

3. Realistic Terrain

   • The terrain includes hills, mountains, and plains, with a ring of mountains around the periphery.
   • Painted textures simulate dirt, scorch marks, rock, moss, grass, and include two dirt roads.

4. Trees & Foliage

   • Five tree prefabs placed naturally within the scene, with at least five instances of each prefab, using variations in rotation, scale, and materials.

5. Baron's Castle

   • A castle created using ProBuilder and assets downloaded from the Unity Asset Store. It features outer walls, an inner keep, doorways, windows, a gate, various furnishings, and archer firing ports.

Choice Features

6. Crash Site

   • A crash site for Jammo’s ship with a spacecraft model, perturbed terrain to create a crater, and painted scorch marks.
   • Added debris objects and burning flames around the crash site to enhance realism

7. Lake and Moat

   • A moat surrounds the castle utilizing assets from the Unity Asset Store
   • A lake on the edge of the terrain with a boat created with various assets

Assets

8. List of Assets
   • The project includes a mix of provided and downloaded assets from the Unity Asset Store which include the following: Alstra Infinite, Boats, Coconut Palm Tree Pack, Dry_Trees, DungeonAssetPack, Hipernt, HiRezSpaceshipsCreatorFree, IgniteCoders, laxer tree pkg, LowPolyDungeonsLite, MedievalCastlePackLite, Modular Castle, nave, Next_Spring, polygonTrees, Robot, SciFiWarriorPBRHPPolyart, Streams Creeks and Rivers Sound Pack Free, Tree_Packs, Tree_Textures, Trees_WorldSpace_FREE, Triple Dungeon Pack, TutorialInfo, Vefects, and Water Float

Known Issues

• No enemies added to the scene.
• No farms added to the scene.

Installation Instructions

1. Setup Unity Project

   • Launch Unity Hub and select "Create new project".
   • Ensure all necessary packages and plugins used in the project are installed.
   • Open the "Package Manager" in the Unity Editor and verify all packages are correctly installed.

2. Import Project Files

   • Unzip the project folder and open it in Unity.

3. Rendering Pipeline

   • This project uses Unity's Universal Rendering Pipeline (URP).

Controls

• Movement: WASD or arrow keys.
• Rotation: 'A' and 'D' or left and right arrow keys.

Additional Information

• Tutorial References: For terrain texturing and using ProBuilder, the following tutorials were referenced:
  • Texturize Terrains with Materials
  • ProBuilder House Tutorial
  • [Class Textbook on Unity] (Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development - Third Edition by Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo)

Testing

• Ensure the project runs in a fresh install by testing it in a new Unity project directory to confirm all elements work as expected.

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