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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

By : Bruno Cicanci
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Book Image

Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

4.5 (2)
By: Bruno Cicanci

Overview of this book

Building a successful real-time strategy game is challenging, because of both the complex mechanics and the need to strike a balance between different elements, ensuring that players enjoy creating and executing strategies against the game's AI. Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 will teach you how to install and set up the Unity game engine, create a new 3D project, and build a level editor to make it easier to modify and add maps to a game. The RTS game will start to take shape while you learn to implement different core systems such as melee and ranged battles, unit spawners, camera controls, dynamic mapping generation, basic enemy AI, and the pathfinder algorithm. You'll also get to grips with implementing command units to perform actions, crafting and producing resources, basic physics and collision detection, and building an RTS game from scratch using C# and the latest features of the Unity game engine. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make professional and high-quality end-to-end RTS games using the best practices and techniques from the gaming industry.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games
6
Part 2: The Combat Units
11
Part 3: The Battlefield
15
Part 4: The Gameplay

Spawning units using the Object Pooling pattern

The Object Pooling pattern was created to optimize memory usage and CPU performance by reusing objects that are pre-allocated in a pool, instead of instantiating a new object when needed and then destroying it. When the ObjectPool script is created, a fixed number of instances will be allocated and added to a list. Then, when an object is required, the Object Pool will give you an existing copy. When you do not need the object anymore, for example when a unit is destroyed by the enemy, the object is returned to the Object Pool.

We can use the Object Pooling pattern when we frequently need to create and destroy objects that are all the same or very similar. A good use case is bullets that are fired from a weapon; they are all the same and created and destroyed a lot. In this case, the Object Pooling pattern will reduce the overhead on the CPU to create and destroy an object as well as making it faster to reuse an object instead of instantiating...