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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran
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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By: John P. Doran

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Unity Game Development Blueprints
John P. Doran
Nov, 2014 | 318 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Unity Game Development Blueprints
Unity Game Development Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
2D Twin-stick Shooter
2D Twin-stick Shooter
Project overview
Setting up the project
Creating our scene
Implementing player movement
Shooting behavior
Creating enemies
Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves
Particle systems for enemy explosion
Adding in sound effects/music
Adding in points, score, and wave numbers
Publishing the game
Summary
Challenges
2
Creating GUIs
Creating GUIs
Project overview
Project setup
Customizing the GUI
Pausing the game
Restarting the game
Creating an Options menu
Summary
Challenges
3
Side-scrolling Platformer
Side-scrolling Platformer
Project overview
Setting up the project
Tile-based level creation
Creating our player
Creating collectibles
Keeping score
Winning the game
Summary
Challenges
4
First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
Project overview
The project setup
Exterior environment – terrain
Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass
Creating our player
Building the atmosphere
Creating a flashlight
Walking / flashlight bobbing animation
Summary
Challenges
5
First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
Project overview
Project setup
Importing assets
Creating tiles
Placing tiles with grid snapping
Creating and placing props
Lightmapping quickstart
Summary
Challenges
6
First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI
First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI
Project overview
Setting up the project
Creating the shooting behavior
Creating an enemy
Enemy movement
Damaging and killing enemies
Using controller input
Moving to other levels
Summary
Challenges
7
Creating Save Files in Unity
Creating Save Files in Unity
Project overview
Saving a high score
Level editor – introduction
Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime
Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles
Level editor – saving/loading levels to file
Summary
Challenges
8
Finishing Touches
Finishing Touches
Project overview
Setting up the build settings
Customizing your exported project via the player settings
Building an installer for Windows
Summary
Challenges
9
Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System
Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System
Project overview
Project setup
Creating health bars
Adding in text
Working with buttons and anchors
Summary
Additional resources
Challenges
Index
Index

Adding in text

In addition to placing the health bar, to get some experience using text, let's use that as well:

  1. With the Canvas object selected, create a text object by navigating to GameObject | UI | Text.

  2. Now, it may be hard to see it being added at first, so let's first change the color of the text. Select the Text object, and go to its Text component. Once there, change the Color property to white:

    Note

    In the new UI system, objects are drawn in order, which means that if the text object was before the slider, the slider would cover the text. However, you can drag objects into whichever order you want.

  3. At this point, you'll notice that the text is actually backwards. Fixing this is very simple; just change the Rect Transform module on it to have a Y Rotation value of 180.

    Note

    Make sure this is done on the Text object, or your health will go down from right to left rather than left to right.

  4. For our purposes, we will have this be displayed in the center of our object. To do this, we can just...

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