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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran

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Unity Game Development Blueprints

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By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

If you want to build enticing projects with Unity, this book is for you. Readers who are familiar with the basics of how to create simple projects in Unity will have an easier time.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our scene

Implementing player movement

Shooting behavior

Creating enemies

Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves

Particle systems for enemy explosion

Adding in sound effects/music

Adding in points, score, and wave numbers

Publishing the game

Summary

Challenges

2. Creating GUIs

2. Creating GUIs

Project overview

Project setup

Customizing the GUI

Pausing the game

Restarting the game

Creating an Options menu

Summary

Challenges

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

Project overview

Setting up the project

Tile-based level creation

Creating our player

Creating collectibles

Keeping score

Winning the game

Summary

Challenges

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

Project overview

The project setup

Exterior environment – terrain

Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass

Creating our player

Building the atmosphere

Creating a flashlight

Walking / flashlight bobbing animation

Summary

Challenges

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

Project overview

Project setup

Importing assets

Creating tiles

Placing tiles with grid snapping

Creating and placing props

Lightmapping quickstart

Summary

Challenges

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating the shooting behavior

Creating an enemy

Enemy movement

Damaging and killing enemies

Using controller input

Moving to other levels

Summary

Challenges

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

Project overview

Saving a high score

Level editor – introduction

Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime

Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Summary

Challenges

8. Finishing Touches

8. Finishing Touches

Project overview

Setting up the build settings

Customizing your exported project via the player settings

Building an installer for Windows

Summary

Challenges

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

Project overview

Project setup

Creating health bars

Adding in text

Working with buttons and anchors

Summary

Additional resources

Challenges

Index

Index

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Adding in text

In addition to placing the health bar, to get some experience using text, let's use that as well:

With the Canvas object selected, create a text object by navigating to GameObject | UI | Text.
Now, it may be hard to see it being added at first, so let's first change the color of the text. Select the Text object, and go to its Text component. Once there, change the Color property to white:
Note
In the new UI system, objects are drawn in order, which means that if the text object was before the slider, the slider would cover the text. However, you can drag objects into whichever order you want.
At this point, you'll notice that the text is actually backwards. Fixing this is very simple; just change the Rect Transform module on it to have a Y Rotation value of 180.
Note
Make sure this is done on the Text object, or your health will go down from right to left rather than left to right.
For our purposes, we will have this be displayed in the center of our object. To do this, we can just...

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