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Mastering Unity 5.x

You're reading from   Mastering Unity 5.x Create amazing games with brilliant game play features using Unity 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880742
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan Thorn Alan Thorn
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparation and Asset-Configuring FREE CHAPTER 2. Level Design and Structure 3. Player Controls - Movement 4. Player Controls - Typing and Health 5. Enemies and Artificial Intelligence 6. Project Management and Version Control 7. Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States 8. Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Health and damage


Next up, we consider health and damage. Health is an interesting property, especially because it is abstract. That is, many characters have health: the player character and enemies, including the zombies. Though zombies are neither alive nor dead, but are undead, they still normally have an equivalent metric corresponding to health. When that property or resource is exhausted for any character, they expire, die, or are removed from the game. Because of the generic quality of health, it's a good idea to code it once such that it can be applied limitlessly as a component to any entity that has that property. For this reason, we'll create a Health class. Consider the following full source code and the comments that follow it:

//------------------------------------ 
using UnityEngine; 
using System.Collections; 
using UnityEngine.EventSystems; 
using UnityEngine.Events; 
//------------------------------------ 
public class Health : MonoBehaviour...
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