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Unity Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Unity Game Development Blueprints Explore the various enticing features of Unity and learn how to develop awesome games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783553655
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John P. Doran John P. Doran
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter 2. Creating GUIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Side-scrolling Platformer 4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments 5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments 6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI 7. Creating Save Files in Unity 8. Finishing Touches 9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System Index

Creating our player


Now that we have the terrain and its details, it's hard to get a good picture of what the game looks like without being able to see what it looks like down on the surface, so next we will do just that. However, instead of creating our player from scratch as we've done previously, we will make use of the code that Unity has provided us. We will perform the following steps:

  1. Start off by navigating to Assets | Import Package | Character Controller. When the Importing Package dialog comes up, we only need to import the files shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Now drag-and-drop the First Person Controller prefab under the Prefabs folder in our Project tab into your world, where you want the player to spawn, setting the Y Position value to above 100. If you see yourself fall through the world instead of hitting the ground when you spawn, then increase the Y Position value until you get there.

  3. If you open up the First Person Controller object in the Hierarchy tab, you'll notice...

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