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Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2022 Game Development Learn to use the latest Unity 2022 features to create your first video game in the simplest way possible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236919
Length 712 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating a Unity Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Editing Scenes and Game Objects 3. Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 4. Importing and Integrating Assets 5. Introduction to C# and Visual Scripting 6. Implementing Movement and Spawning 7. Physics Collisions and Health System 8. Win and Lose Conditions 9. Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 10. Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 11. Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph 12. Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 13. Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing 14. Sound and Music Integration 15. User Interface Design 16. Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit 17. Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 18. Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger, and Memory Profiler 19. Generating and Debugging an Executable 20. Augmented Reality in Unity 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Implementing Movement and Spawning

In the previous chapter, we learned about the basics of scripting, so now let’s create the first script for our game. We will see the basics of how to move objects through scripting using the Transform component, which will be applied to the movement of our player with the keyboard keys, the constant movement of bullets, and other object movements. Also, we will see how to create and destroy objects during the game, such as the bullets our player and enemy shoot and the enemy wave spawners. These actions can be used in several other scenarios, so we will explore a few to reinforce the idea.

In this chapter, we will examine the following scripting concepts:

  • Implementing movement
  • Implementing spawning
  • Using the new Input System

We will start by scripting components to move our character through the keyboard, and then we will make our player shoot bullets. Something to consider is that we are going to first...

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