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Mastering Unity 5.x

By : Alan Thorn

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Mastering Unity 5.x

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By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Mastering Unity 5.x is for developers wishing to optimize the features of Unity 5.x. With an in-depth focus on a practical project, learn all about Unity architecture and impressive animation techniques. With this book, produce fun games with confidence.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Preparation and Asset-Configuring

1. Preparation and Asset-Configuring

Getting clear on design

Asset preparation

Asset importing for Dead Keys

Summary

2. Level Design and Structure

2. Level Design and Structure

Setting the scene with a skybox

Level building - modular construction sets

Level building - organization and structure

Level design - tips and tricks

Level lighting - preparation

Getting started with lightmapping

Baking lightmaps - resolution and size

Baking lightmaps - details

Light Probes

Lighting FAQ

Navigation mesh

Occlusion Culling

Creating a player camera

Particle systems

Music and audio

Summary

3. Player Controls - Movement

3. Player Controls - Movement

Player movement

Zombie combat

Creating player waypoints

Animating the camera

Configuring an animator graph

Working with animation - creating the navigator

Navigator GUI

Summary

4. Player Controls - Typing and Health

4. Player Controls - Typing and Health

Word combat

Creating a word list

Using Visual Studio Code

Creating a WordList class

Matching words

The Typer object

Progressing with the Typer class

Health and damage

Damage and feedback

Player score

Bonus items

Summary

5. Enemies and Artificial Intelligence

5. Enemies and Artificial Intelligence

Configuring the zombie character

Getting started with the zombie Prefab

Planning the zombie Artificial Intelligence

Developing state structure

Developing an NPC Animator Controller

Developing the Idle state

Developing the Chase state

Developing the Attack state and more

Developing the Dead state

Zombies and text input

Zombies and the Typer class

Activating enemies and camera paths

Working with Play mode

Summary

6. Project Management and Version Control

6. Project Management and Version Control

Project Management

Applied Project Management using Trello

Collaboration with cloud storage

Version control using Git

Getting started with Git and GitKraken

Configuring Unity for version control

Reverting and discarding

Branches and branching

Conflicts and resolving

Git and the Web

Pushing and pulling

Cloning

Summary

7. Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States

7. Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States

Data Serialization

Player preferences - saving data

Player preferences - loading data

Player preferences - INI files

Saving data - XML files

Saving data - JSON files

Saving data - binary files

Saving data for Dead Keys

Summary

8. Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

8. Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Stats and performance

Profiler and performance assessment

Optimization tips and tricks

Getting started with mobile development

Moving forwards with mobile development

Building for Android

Building for VR (Virtual Reality)

Summary

Player preferences - saving data

For Dead Keys, the player progresses through a sequence of levels, one after another. On reaching the end of one level, the next begins. As the player moves from level to level, their progress should be saved, so the most recent player can easily resume their progress from the highest attained level on their next play session. To achieve this, we need to use only the PlayerPrefs class for storing the highest attained level. Progress cannot be resumed within a level. That is, the player may resume play from the highest attained level, but always from the beginning of that level.

Note

As we'll see later in this chapter, the PlayerPrefs class is all we'll need for saving and loading user data in Dead Keys. This makes our persistent data needs very simple. Nevertheless, we'll cover a range of data storage solutions here, for games of all sizes, both small and large.

Preparing to save data for Dead Keys

Before saving data with PlayerPrefs, you should specify the...

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