In-Engine Modeling for Unity 3D Game Engine: Build Control Video Lecture | How to make Video Games: Game Editor Tutorial - Game Development

let's take a look at built control
inside of FPS control we've worked
together with six by seven studios
these are awesome guys that have made
modeling inside of unity possible inside
of FPS control and so let's go over to
the left here and we see we have a
couple of toolbars
that we can use for our modeling if you
don't see them go into FPS control go
into the editor login with your username
and password and then go to the build
control tab here now notice that I get a
little update that's because I just
purchased it on the website but you
don't need to purchase the pro version
to start using it so I'm just gonna hit
cancel just for now to show you the
basic features that everybody will have
so as you can see when I hover over
these buttons it explains to me what
these are but first I just click on
launch build control window and that
launches this window here but most
likely it will not be docked for you so
grab it by the handle and dock it
towards the side then do the same for
the grit control window now the decal
control window is nice for adding decals
on the wall but you wouldn't use it as
often so I'm just gonna close that for
now alright now with these open let's
get to work first let's create a new
item in the scene here so let's click
the plus button and asks us what do we
want to create do we want to create a
stair do we want to create a prism sell
an airplane or just a simple cube so I'm
gonna go with a cube here and I can set
the dimensions that are 1 1 1 by default
so I'm gonna click new cube and it adds
a new cube to my scene as you can see
it's already lit perfectly by the lights
in my scene and of course if I turn it
off this is what the cube would usually
look like alright so now I can start
modeling inside of the game which is
extremely useful because it helps me to
quickly block out a level so that I can
see if you know the player actually can
jump from one place to the next before
doing all the detailing of texturing and
what-have-you
so to go into edit mode just click the G
key for geometry and as you can see now
I can select each face just by clicking
on the side now if I don't want to
select faces or move other things then I
hit the H key to go into the secondary
mode and I can switch that again by
pressing H so I can switch from faces to
vertices you can see on the top left
here you can see while I'm switching
what mode I mean okay so I can move
these faces around or I could move these
vertices around I can select only those
vertices that I need and move those now
in the cool part is that you can do that
on a grid so I'm gonna turn the grid on
here with the grid window and now as I
move it you will see everything will
snap towards the grid which is extremely
useful I honestly don't understand why
unity doesn't come with a solid grid
system by default but all that is solved
now so as you can see while we're
scaling this out here the texture does
not stretch out it is tiled instead
which is pretty basic in most of the you
know old-school video game editors that
were BSP editors you know what the
hammer for for the source engine doom
engine back in the day unreal even you
know as far back as destiny and unity
Genesis 3ds even when I was 10 years old
or so they all had this so now that is
back now you're wondering okay how do I
add a new texture on there then I just
click on the face hit the J key which is
right next to g8 and J and then I can
look for a different texture and apply
that to the face here using the apply
button now notice that some of these are
blocked out because there are Pro
features so most of the sweet texturing
tools are only inside of the pro
features but it just uses the J key to
get to there and everything else will
solve itself you can change the offset
or I could even just use the normal move
handle inside a unity to move the
texture around real time with my mouse
which is pretty awesome as you can see
the offsets here are
changing as I move it around so very
very cool stuff you can change the
stretching this scaling all that good
stuff rotation even for the UVs alright
so that is texturing and some simple
models then there are a couple of other
buttons as well the third one which is a
pro feature will allow you to you know
merge the selected objects that you have
into one object this is very nice
because then you have less draw calls
but you may or may not want to do that
until the end of your session because
you may still want to edit objects or
use occlusion calling instead then you
can create a group from your selection
which is the easy way to move things
around without merging them into one so
that is probably better for occlusion
culling then you can create a new prefab
from the selection notice that this
editor here was made you know by six by
seven studios and it you know it works
inside a unity but it's not a unity cube
so you can't just turn it in to a prefab
by default you have to use this make
prefab button instead then last but not
least of these most buttons is that you
can change the UV parameters for example
if you're baking lights and you see some
weird you know spots here and there you
can change the settings of the of the
secondary UV to channel which is used
for light mapping so now let's go over
to some other cool features if I hit
escape I go out of side of editing mode
and what I can do now is I can turn this
into a brush which it is right now as
you can see with textures and all that
good stuff or I can hit C to turn it
into a Collider as soon as I do that you
can see that now it is a transparent
object and I can look right through it
and so you're asking why do I need to
turn something into a Collider well this
is pretty much an invisible wall you
know how games have invisible walls and
sometimes you get stuck in them if
they're not positioned right well this
allows you to do just that to keep
people from going into spaces where they
shouldn't be alright if I want to turn
it back into a brush just hit the B key
and I will turn it back into a brush and
our option is that we can use it and
press the T key to turn it into a
trigger you ask what is a trigger a
trigger
is an empty box that does not have
collision but once you're inside of it
it recognizes that you now are inside of
it so you can trigger for example doors
to open if you have a trigger in front
of the door on either side so that the
door opens different ways or for all
those kinds of purposes you can use
triggers so those are a couple of the
items you can do now for example if you
don't want to see triggers you can click
the trigger button here and turns them
on or off when you have the pro features
purchased or collision meshes or no draw
meshes now no draw we haven't covered
yet let's go back and turn this into a
brush and if we then hits the G key for
editing and then the J key for texturing
you can see that we can also apply a no
draw face to this side here and as you
can see that looks kind of weird and
you're thinking why would my player want
to see that well the kicker is your
player won't see that this face will be
gone once the game starts you're asking
why is that handy well for example you
could be the back of a staircase that
you don't see in the game anyway but you
don't want to draw them because you want
to save on RAM for example and that way
the face is not drawn you're asking why
can I just delete the face then well
maybe you will need that face a little
bit later and you just want it to not
draw in the game but maybe later you
want to extend it with a cord or
something then you can use these
textures so this pretty much sums up the
build control editor here we can do
extremely powerful things with it and I
hope you enjoy it we have made it as
affordable as possible and I'm very very
very excited with it it took a lot of
time and effort to integrate it in to
build control and it gives you an
extreme amount of flexibility that I'm
very sure that once you have it you're
going to wonder how you've ever done
without so thanks for watching this
video and get your hands on the next
version of FPS control that has built
control in it thanks so much bye-bye