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Learning Design Patterns with Unity

You're reading from  Learning Design Patterns with Unity

Product type Book
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805120285
Pages 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Harrison Ferrone Harrison Ferrone
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters close

Preface 1. Priming the System 2. Managing Access with the Singleton Pattern 3. Spawning Enemies with the Prototype Pattern 4. Creating Items with the Factory Method Pattern 5. Building a Crafting System with the Abstract Factory Pattern 6. Assembling Support Characters with the Builder Pattern 7. Managing Performance and Memory with Object Pooling 8. Binding Actions with the Command Pattern 9. Decoupling Systems with the Observer Pattern 10. Controlling Behavior with the State Pattern 11. Adding Features with the Visitor Pattern 12. Swapping Algorithms with the Strategy Pattern 13. Making Monsters with the Type Object Pattern 14. Taking Data Snapshots with the Memento Pattern 15. Dynamic Upgrades with the Decorator Pattern 16. Converting Incompatible Classes with the Adapter Pattern 17. Simplifying Subsystems with the Façade Pattern 18. Generating Terrains with the Flyweight Pattern 19. Global Access with the Service Locator Pattern 20. The Road Ahead 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Implementing an undo/redo system

Now that we have unique movement commands, we can keep track of them as move sequences. This feature is ideal for letting players undo mistakes or redo past moves if they’re undone in error, and it is common in strategy games and editor tools.

The undo/redo system we’re going to build out in this section works with the Stack type, which is a C# collection type that follows the Last-In-First-Out rule, meaning the item on top of the stack is always the last one we added, like a deck of cards. This is perfect since we only want to undo or redo the most recent command in the player move sequence.

You might be asking yourself, “Why not just use the List type?” Well, you absolutely can, but it’s messier. Lists work off indexes, which means you would have to manually keep track of the current move in the list of moves when you want to undo or redo that move. Further, having to increment and decrement your...

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