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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x

You're reading from   Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x Develop your first interactive 2D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287596
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts 3. Getting into the Details of Variables 4. Getting into the Details of Methods 5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – From Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables — What Next? Index

The Start(), Update(), and Awake() methods and the execution order

The Start(), Update(), and Awake() methods are called automatically. The Start() method is called on the frame when the script is enabled. For most of our components, this will be when you press the Start button in Unity.

The Awake() method is called just before the Start() method. That gives a very convenient place to set up code if you have any. The Update() method is very specific. It's called on every frame if the component is enabled. It's very useful for observing user keyboard actions, for example. As you can see in our script, in Line 16, we are checking on every frame to know whether the user has pressed the Enter key.

Let's create a new C# Script and call it LearningMethods. As you can see, the Start() and Update() methods are added automatically when you create a new script. To test them all, all that we need to do is add the Awake() method and a few other useful lines to print something on the Console...

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