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Mastering Unity Scripting

Mastering Unity Scripting

By : Alan Thorn
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Mastering Unity Scripting

Mastering Unity Scripting

4.5 (14)
By: Alan Thorn
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Overview of this book

Mastering Unity Scripting is an advanced book intended for students, educators, and professionals familiar with the Unity basics as well as the basics of scripting. Whether you've been using Unity for a short time or are an experienced user, this book has something important and valuable to offer to help you improve your game development workflow.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Unity C# Refresher
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1. Unity C# Refresher
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Why C#?
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Creating script files
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Instantiating scripts
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Variables
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Conditional statements
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Arrays
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Loops
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Functions
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Events
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Classes and object-oriented programming
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Classes and inheritance
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Classes and polymorphism
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C# properties
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Commenting
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Variable visibility
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The ? operator
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SendMessage and BroadcastMessage
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Summary
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2. Debugging
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2. Debugging
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Compilation errors and the console
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Debugging with Debug.Log – custom messages
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Overriding the ToString method
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Visual debugging
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Error logging
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Editor debugging
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Using the profiler
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – getting started
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – the Watch window
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – continue and stepping
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – call stack
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – the Immediate window
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – conditional breakpoints
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Debugging with MonoDevelop – tracepoints
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3. Singletons, Statics, GameObjects, and the World
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3. Singletons, Statics, GameObjects, and the World
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The GameObject
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Component interactions
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GameObjects and the world
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The world, time, and updates
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Immortal objects
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Understanding singleton objects and statics
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4. Event-driven Programming
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4. Event-driven Programming
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Events
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Event management
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Code folding in MonoDevelop with #region and #endregion
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5. Cameras, Rendering, and Scenes
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5. Cameras, Rendering, and Scenes
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Camera gizmos
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Being seen
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Orthographic cameras
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Camera rendering and postprocessing
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Camera shake
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Cameras and animation
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Cameras and curves
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6. Working with Mono
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6. Working with Mono
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Lists and collections
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IEnumerable and IEnumerator
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Strings and regular expressions
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Infinite arguments
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Language Integrated Query
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Linq and regular expressions
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Working with Text Data Assets
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Text Assets – loading from the local files
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7. Artificial Intelligence
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7. Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence in games
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Starting the project
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Baking a navigation mesh
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Starting an NPC agent
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Finite State Machines in Mecanim
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Finite State Machines in C# – getting started
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Creating the Idle state
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Creating the Patrol state
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Creating the Chase state
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Creating the Attack state
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Creating the Seek-Health (or flee) state
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8. Customizing the Unity Editor
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8. Customizing the Unity Editor
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Batch renaming
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C# attributes and reflection
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Color blending
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Property exposing
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Localization
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9. Working with Textures, Models, and 2D
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9. Working with Textures, Models, and 2D
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Skybox
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Procedural meshes
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Animating UVs – scrolling textures
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Texture painting
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10. Source Control and Other Tips
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10. Source Control and Other Tips
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Git – source control
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Resources folder and external files
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AssetBundles and external files
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Persistent data and saved games
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Chapter 6. Working with Mono

Unity supports two main scripting languages, namely, C# and JavaScript. Developers should select one of these two from the outset and apply it consistently throughout their project; this writes all scripts in the selected language. Failure to do so (by mixing script files in different languages) typically causes unnecessary headache and confusion. However, once you've settled on a language, such as C#, it usually won't offer everything you need it to do to create games. C#, on its own, can neither load and parse XML files to support save-game data, nor can it create window objects and GUI widgets to perform advanced search and query behaviors on complex data sets and collections. To achieve these additional behaviors and lots more, we must turn to external libraries. Some libraries can be purchased directly from the Unity's Asset Store, and these are typically used for a specific and dedicated purpose. However, Unity ships with the Mono...

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