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Unity Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Unity Game Development Blueprints Explore the various enticing features of Unity and learn how to develop awesome games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783553655
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter 2. Creating GUIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Side-scrolling Platformer 4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments 5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments 6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI 7. Creating Save Files in Unity 8. Finishing Touches 9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System Index

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


Now that we have the basic functionality in, it wouldn't be that enjoyable if all we could do was add and remove walls. We also want to be able to spawn collectibles and change the player's starting location. Let's work on that next:

  1. Back in MonoDevelop in the LevelEditor class, we're going to want to first add in an OnGUI function to display the types of things we can create:

    void OnGUI()
    {
      GUILayout.BeginArea(new Rect(Screen.width - 110, 20, 100, 800));
      foreach(Transform item in tiles)
      {
        if (GUILayout.Button (item.name))
        {
          toCreate = item;
          
        }
      }
      GUILayout.EndArea();
    }
  2. Next, inside our GameController class, add the following code to our Update function (create the function as well if it doesn't exist in your current implementation, such as the example code):

    void Update()
    {
      if(Input.GetKeyDown("f2"))
      {
        this.gameObject.GetComponent<LevelEditor>().enabled = true;
      }
    }

    Now, if we...

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