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Unity 5.x By Example

By : Alan Thorn
Book Image

Unity 5.x By Example

By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

User controls


Maybe you don't like the default controls and key combinations associated with the input axes—Horizontal, Vertical, and Fire1. Maybe you want to change them. These input axes are read using the Input.GetAxis function (shown earlier) and are specified by human readable names, but it's not immediately clear how Unity maps specific input buttons and devices to these virtual axes. Here, we'll see briefly how to customize these. To get started, let's access the Input settings by navigating to Edit | Project Settings | Input from the application menu. See Figure 4.21:

Figure 4.21: Accessing the Input menu

On selecting this option, a collection of custom-defined input axes appear as a list in the Object Inspector. See Figure 4.22. This defines all axes used by the input system. The Horizontal and Vertical axes should be listed here.

Figure 4.22: Exploring the input axes

By expanding each axis in the Object Inspector, you can easily customize how user input is mapped, that is, how specific...