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Unity Game Development Scripting

Unity Game Development Scripting

By : D'Aoust
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Unity Game Development Scripting

Unity Game Development Scripting

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By: D'Aoust

Overview of this book

The intuitive and powerful Unity game engine is one of the most widely used and best loved packages for game development. Unity scripting is an essential but challenging skill to master in order to create custom game elements. Learning modular scripting allows you to rewrite as little code as possible as you deploy your scripts to multiple projects and work easier, quicker, and more efficiently than before. In each chapter of this book, you'll learn how to script new game elements. Beginning with making custom controls for the keyboard and mouse, as well as the Xbox 360 Controller, you'll then get to grips with more complex systems such as inventory, data saving, and artificial intelligence. As you create these elements, you'll also learn how to make your scripts simpler and easy to use. This will allow drag-and-drop deployment, which is to be used by designers and nonprogrammers. Finally, you'll combine all of your newfound skills to create your own complete game project.
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The XML save system


The next method that we learn under data management is saving and loading from an XML file. Saving and loading from an XML file allows you to get more details on how you save your data. An XML file is made up of tagged lines that allow you to load or save specific data for easier usage. Create a new C# script and name it XML_Save_System. Before we write the code to save and load to XML, we need to first create our XML files.

Creating our XML files

To create XML files, we use a program called Notepad++, a free-to-use text editor. Notepad++ is a handy tool to have for situations like these; you can download Notepad++ free of cost from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/.

When you open Notepad++, you should first select Language at the top of the screen and select XML. This will set the current document to use the XML language.

Next, we start adding our tags. First, we make the PlayerData XML file. Add these lines so that your XML file looks like mine:

The first tag or node that...

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