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Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236919
Length 712 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating a Unity Project 2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects FREE CHAPTER 3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 4. Importing and Integrating Assets 5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting 6. Implementing Movement and Spawning 7. Physics Collisions and Health System 8. Win and Lose Conditions 9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing 14. Sound and Music Integration 15. User Interface Design 16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit 17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler 19. Generating and Debugging an Executable 20. Augmented Reality in Unity 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Creating object managers

Not every object in your Scene should be something that can be seen, heard, or collided with. Some objects can also exist with a conceptual meaning, not something tangible. For example, imagine you need to keep a count of the number of enemies: where do you save that? You also need someplace to save the current score of the player, and you may be thinking it could be on the player itself, but what happens if the player dies and respawns?

The data would be lost! In such scenarios, the concept of a manager can be a useful way of solving this in our first games, so let’s explore it.

In this section, we are going to see the following object manager concepts:

  • Sharing variables with the Singleton design pattern
  • Sharing variables in Visual Scripting
  • Creating managers

We will start by discussing what the Singleton design pattern is and how it helps us simplify the communication of objects. With it, we will create manager...

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