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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Do you want to make the leap from being an everyday Unity developer to being a pro game developer? Then look no further! This book is your one-stop solution to creating mesmerizing games with lifelike features and amazing gameplay. This book focuses in some detail on a practical project with Unity, building a first-person game with many features. You'll delve into the architecture of a Unity game, creating expansive worlds, interesting render effects, and other features to make your games special. You will create individual game components, use efficient animation techniques, and implement collision and physics effectively. Specifically, we'll explore optimal techniques for importing game assets, such as meshes and textures; tips and tricks for effective level design; how to animate and script NPCs; how to configure and deploy to mobile devices; how to prepare for VR development; how to work with version control; and more. By the end of this book, you'll have developed sufficient competency in Unity development to produce fun games with confidence.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Activating enemies and camera paths

We've now achieved a lot for the Dead keys game. We've created health, enemy AI, and the ability for enemies to change between different states. However, if we add enemies to the level right now, they'll begin in a sleeping or deactivated state and, as yet, nothing changes that state. To move forward, we'll need to link the camera position in the level with enemies so that as the camera moves near to an enemy, the enemy wakes up and becomes an active participant in the game. This allows us to pace our game with the camera. To achieve this, we'll use strategically positioned Trigger Volumes, with a GameTrigger script. The script is as follows:

//------------------------------------ 
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.Events;
//--------------------------------...