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Unity Game Development Essentials

You're reading from   Unity Game Development Essentials If you have ambitions to be a game developer this guide is a must. Covering all the fundamentals of the Unity game engine, it will help you understand the different elements of 3D game creation through practical projects.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198181
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Deconstructing the First Person Controller object


Let's begin by looking at the objects that make up our First Person Controller (FPC) before we look into the components that make it work.

Click on the gray arrow to the left of First Person Controller in the Hierarchy in order to reveal the objects nested underneath. When objects are nested in this way, we say that there is a parent-child relationship. In this example, First Person Controller is the parent, while Graphics and Main Camera are its child objects. In the Hierarchy, child objects are indented to show their parenting, as shown in the following screenshot:

Parent-child issues

When considering nested or child objects, you should note that there are some key rules to remember.

A child object's position and rotation values are relative to their parent. This is referred to as the local position and local rotation. For example, you may consider your parent object to exist at (500, 35, 500) in world coordinates, but when selecting a child...

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