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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Vector3


As you know Unity a bit, have you heard of Vector3 already? If you haven't, I will explain it very briefly. Vector3 represents a 3D vector and a point or direction. The Unity documentation says:

"This structure is used throughout Unity to pass 3D positions and directions around. It also contains functions for doing common vector operations."

Feel free to study more about Vector3 at this link: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.html. If you are not a math master, you will feel confused now. All I want you to remember right now is that Vector3 can be used to store the position of a game object in 3D space. It contains the X, Y, and Z positions in 3D space. That's it! Don't bother yourself with too much information about 3D vectors at this stage; it is a massive subject.

Line 39 is where we are creating a new Vector3 type variable to store the position we will move our level position to in the next few lines.

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You can use List<T>.Count to access the current size of...

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