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Unity 4 Game Development HOTSHOT

By : Jate Wittayabundit
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Unity 4 Game Development HOTSHOT

By: Jate Wittayabundit

Overview of this book

<p>Immerse yourself in the world of high-end game design by partaking in challenging missions. Start off by working with the Sprite Mode, then learn the basics of creating a UI system for an RPG, and work your way through the game virtually embodying your greatest hero or heroine.</p> <p>Every project is designed to push your Unity skills to the limit and beyond. You will start by creating a 2D platform game with the new 2D sprite feature and move on to the Unity GUI system. Then, you will create a 3D character and make it move. By the end of this book, you will know how to post the player's score to the hi-score board.</p>

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Unity 4 Game Development HOTSHOT
Jate Wittayabundit
Jul, 2014 | 466 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Unity 4 Game Development HOTSHOT
Unity 4 Game Development HOTSHOT
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Develop a Sprite and Platform Game
Develop a Sprite and Platform Game
Mission briefing
Setting up a 2D level and collider
Creating a 2D character and animation
Controlling the character with the PlayerController_2D class
Creating a key, door, and replay button
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
2
Create a Menu for an RPG – Add Powerups, Weapons, and Armors
Create a Menu for an RPG – Add Powerups, Weapons, and Armors
Mission briefing
Customizing skin with GUISkin
Creating a menu object
Creating the STATUS tab
Creating the INVENTORY tab
Creating the EQUIPMENT tab
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
3
Shade Your Hero/Heroine
Shade Your Hero/Heroine
Mission briefing
Shader programming – Diffuse and Bump (normal) maps
Shader programming – Ambient and Specular light
Shader programming – Half Lambert, Rim Light, and Toon Ramp
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
4
Add Character Control and Animation to Our Hero/Heroine
Add Character Control and Animation to Our Hero/Heroine
Mission briefing
Setting up character animation and level
Creating an animator controller
Creating a character control script
Creating a third-person camera to follow our character
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
5
Build a Rocket Launcher!
Build a Rocket Launcher!
Mission briefing
Setting up a character animation and animator controller
Adding new features to the CharacterControl and CameraControl scripts
Creating a MouseLook script and laser target scope
Creating a rocket prefab and particle effects
Creating a rocket launcher and RocketUI
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
6
Make AI Appear Smart
Make AI Appear Smart
Mission briefing
Creating the Waypoint and WaypointsContainer scripts
Creating a custom editor for the WaypointsContainer script
Creating the enemy movement with the AI script
Creating a hit-point UI
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
7
Forge a Destructible and Interactive Virtual World
Forge a Destructible and Interactive Virtual World
Mission briefing
Creating a ragdoll object
Creating a destructible wall
Creating a rockslide and trigger area
Creating the RocksTrigger and Rocks scripts
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
8
Let the World See the Carnage – Saving and Loading High Scores
Let the World See the Carnage – Saving and Loading High Scores
Mission briefing
Creating the UserData and Hiscore scripts
Saving and loading the local high score
Creating an XMLParser script
Saving and loading server high score
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
Important Functions
Important Functions
Awake()
Start()
Update()
FixedUpdate()
LateUpdate()
OnEnable()
OnDisable()
OnGUI()
OnDrawGizmos()
Coroutines and Yield
Coroutines and Yield
Coroutines
YieldInstruction
WaitForSeconds
WaitForFixedUpdate
StartCoroutine
StopCoroutine
StopAllCoroutines
Major Differences Between C# and Unity JavaScript
Major Differences Between C# and Unity JavaScript
Unity script directives
Type names
Variable declaration
Variables with dynamically typed resolution
Multidimensional array declaration
Character literals not supported
Class declarations
Limited interface support
Generics
The foreach keyword
The new keyword
The yield instruction and coroutine
Casting
Properties with getters/setters
Changing struct properties by value versus by reference
Function/method definitions
Shaders and Cg/HLSL Programming
Shaders and Cg/HLSL Programming
ShaderLab properties
Surface shaders
Cg/HLSL Programming
Index
Index

Creating a character control script

In this step, we will create a script that controls our character's movements such as forward and backward movements, turning left or right, and other actions such as jumping and falling by using the CharacterController component and the OnAnimatorMove() function.

Tip

We can also use the Rigidbody and CapsuleCollider components instead of CharacterController. However, in this book, we want to show the example of using CharacterController because there are many convenient functions to use to control the character such as Move(), collisionFlags (checking where the character is collided), and slopeLimit (the character can move up on the slope by a limited degree). If we use Rigidbody and CapsuleCollider, we have to create those functions ourselves.

Engage thrusters

Now, we will create the script to control our character. Perform the following steps:

  1. We will create the CharacterControl script that will control our entire menu; go to Assets | Create | Javascript...

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