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Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition

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Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Unity is the most exciting and popular engine used for developing games. With its 2018 release, Unity has become the primary source of both game development and virtual reality content. In Unity 2018 By Example, you’ll learn how to use Unity in order to make amazing games from popular genres - from action shooters to mind-bending puzzle games to adventure and Virtual Reality (VR) games. Even if you have no previous experience of using Unity, this book will help you understand the toolsets it provides in depth. In addition to this, you'll understand how to create time-critical collection games, twin-stick space shooters, platformers, and action-fest games with intelligent enemies. Finally, you'll get to grips with creating VR games with the new toolsets introduced by Unity to help you develop amazing VR experiences. To make things easier, you will be provided with step-by-step tutorials for making five great games in Unity 2018, along with a detailed explanation of all the fundamental concepts. By the end of this book, you’ll have established a strong foundation in making games with Unity 2018.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Gun turrets and ammo


We've now created an ammo object (a projectile) and we've started to engineer a gun turret object, but it doesn't yet spawn ammo. Let's create this functionality now. We have a spawn point positioned in front of the turret parented to it as a child object. We'll attach a new script file called AmmoSpawner.cs to this object. This script is responsible for generating ammo at regular intervals. Refer to the following code:

//--------------------------------
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
//--------------------------------
public class AmmoSpawner : MonoBehaviour 
{
    //--------------------------------
    //Reference to ammo prefab
    public GameObject AmmoPrefab = null;

    //Reference to transform
    private Transform ThisTransform = null;

    //Vector for time range
    public Vector2 TimeDelayRange = Vector2.zero;

    //Lifetime for ammo spawned
    public float AmmoLifeTime = 2f;

    //Ammo Speed
    public float AmmoSpeed = 4f;

    //Ammo Damage...