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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

Creating a player


The player character is a small, green alien-looking creature that can be controlled and guided by the gamer through a level using many conventional platform-game mechanics, such as walking, jumping, and interacting. In the previous section, we built a White Box (prototype) character to test physical interactions with the environment, but here, we'll develop the player character in more depth. Figure 5.27 illustrates our character texture imported earlier in the chapter, representing all limbs and parts for the player:

Figure 5.27: Character and his limbs in a consolidated texture

The player texture, as shown in Figure 5.27, is called an Atlas Texture or Sprite Sheet because it contains all frames or parts of a character in a single texture space. The problem with this texture, as it stands, is that when dragged and dropped from the Project panel to the scene, it'll be added as a single, self-contained sprite. This is because Unity recognizes all the separate parts as a single...