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Unity 2018 By Example

Unity 2018 By Example

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Unity 2018 By Example

Unity 2018 By Example

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Overview of this book

Unity is the most exciting and popular engine used for developing games. With its 2018 release, Unity has become the primary source of both game development and virtual reality content. In Unity 2018 By Example, you’ll learn how to use Unity in order to make amazing games from popular genres - from action shooters to mind-bending puzzle games to adventure and Virtual Reality (VR) games. Even if you have no previous experience of using Unity, this book will help you understand the toolsets it provides in depth. In addition to this, you'll understand how to create time-critical collection games, twin-stick space shooters, platformers, and action-fest games with intelligent enemies. Finally, you'll get to grips with creating VR games with the new toolsets introduced by Unity to help you develop amazing VR experiences. To make things easier, you will be provided with step-by-step tutorials for making five great games in Unity 2018, along with a detailed explanation of all the fundamental concepts. By the end of this book, you’ll have established a strong foundation in making games with Unity 2018.
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Creating a player object

We've now imported most assets for the twin-stick shooter and we're ready to create a player spaceship object, that is, the object that the player will control and move around. Creating this might seem a trivial matter of simply dragging and dropping the relevant player sprite from the Project panel to the scene, but things are not so simple. The player is a complex object with many different behaviors, as we'll see. For this reason, more care needs to be taken about creating the player. To get started, create an empty game object in the scene by navigating to GameObject | Create Empty from the application menu and name the object, Player. See Figure 3.9:

Creating a player object

Figure 3.9: Starting to create the player

The newly created object may or may not be centered at the world origin of (0, 0, 0) and its rotation properties may not be consistently 0 across X, Y, and Z. To ensure a completely zeroed transform, you could manually set the values to 0 by entering them directly...

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