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Unity 2018 By Example

You're reading from Unity 2018 By Example Learn about game and virtual reality development by creating five engaging projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788398701

Length 484 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Alan Thorn

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Unity Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating a Collection Game

3. Creating a Space Shooter

4. Continuing the Space Shooter

5. Creating a 2D Adventure Game

6. Continuing the 2D Adventure

7. Creating Artificial Intelligence

8. Continuing with Intelligent Enemies

9. Entering Virtual Reality

10. Completing the VR Game

A. Test Your Knowledge Answers

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Index

User controls

Maybe you don't like the default controls and key combinations associated with the input axes—Horizontal, Vertical, and Fire1. Maybe you want to change them. These input axes are read using the Input.GetAxis function (shown earlier) and are specified by human readable names, but it's not immediately clear how Unity maps specific input buttons and devices to these virtual axes. Here, we'll see briefly how to customize these. To get started, let's access the Input settings by navigating to Edit | Project Settings | Input from the application menu. See Figure 4.21:

User controls

Figure 4.21: Accessing the Input menu

On selecting this option, a collection of custom-defined input axes appear as a list in the Object Inspector. See Figure 4.22. This defines all axes used by the input system. The Horizontal and Vertical axes should be listed here:

User controls

Figure 4.22: Exploring the input axes

By expanding each axis in the Object Inspector, you can easily customize how user input...

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