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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 (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with scores – scripting with text


To display a score in the GUI, we'll first need score functionality, that is, code to create a score system. Essentially, the score functionality will be added to a general, overarching GameController class, responsible for all game-wide logic and features. The code for GameController and its score feature set is included in Code Sample 4.4, as follows. This file should be added to the Scripts folder of the project.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
//------------------------------
public class GameController : MonoBehaviour
{
  //Game score
  public static int Score;

  //Prefix
  public string ScorePrefix = string.Empty;

  //Score text object
  public Text ScoreText = null;

  //Game over text
  public Text GameOverText = null;

  public static GameController ThisInstance = null;
  //------------------------------
  void Awake()
  {
    ThisInstance = this;
  }
  //------------------------------
  void Update()...