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Unity 5.x By Example

You're reading from   Unity 5.x By Example An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unity 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888380
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan Thorn Alan Thorn
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Coin Collection Game – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Project A – the Collection Game Continued 3. Project B – the Space Shooter 4. Continuing the Space Shooter 5. Project C – a 2D Adventure 6. Continuing the 2D Adventure 7. Project D – Intelligent Enemies 8. Continuing with Intelligent Enemies Index

Creating patrolling NPCs


We now have an NPC that follows a destination object, which is valuable in itself as an exercise, but we'll need more sophisticated behavior than this. Specifically, we'll need the NPC to patrol, that is, move across multiple destinations in order via a waypoint system, moving from one destination to the next in sequence. There are multiple approaches that could be taken to achieve this. One method is through script. Through this method, we'd create an array of different waypoint objects and iterate through them on a loop such that when the NPC reaches one destination, they'll move on to the next one. Now, this approach can be very efficient and effective, but there's another method. Specifically, instead of using script, we can create an animation to move a single destination object to different waypoint locations over time, and because the NPC continually follows the destination wherever it moves, it will continually patrol.

Let's take this second approach. Start...

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