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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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Battery collection with triggers


To trigger the differing states of our Battery GUI, we will use a function called OnTriggerEnter() to detect interaction with objects that have trigger mode colliders, that is, our collectable batteries.

Before we add this function to our PlayerCollisions script, we will add a public member variable at the top to hold an audio clip to be played when the player picks up a battery as a form of audio-based feedback to back up the GUI element.

Open the PlayerCollisions script by double-clicking on its icon in the Scripts folder of the Project panel. This will launch the script in the script editor, or simply switch back to it for you, if you already have the file opened. Add a public member variable for the audio clip to the top of the script by adding the line:

var batteryCollect : AudioClip;

Remember that this is not assigned in the script, but simply left with a data type (AudioClip) so that it may be assigned in the Inspector later.

Next, place your cursor...

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