Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783553655
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
John P. Doran John P. Doran
Author Profile Icon John P. Doran
John P. Doran
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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 a flashlight


Now that our level looks like a dark night, we still want to give our players the ability to see what's in front of them with a flashlight. We will customize the First Person Controller object to fit our needs:

  1. Create a spotlight by navigating to GameObject | Create Other | Spotlight. Once created, we are going to make the spotlight a child of the First Person Controller object's Main Camera object by dragging-and-dropping it on top of it.

  2. Once a child, change the Transform Position value to (0, -.95, 0). Since positions are relative to your parent's position, this places the light slightly lower than the camera's center, just like a hand holding a flashlight. Now change the Rotation value to (0,0,0) or give it a slight diagonal effect across the scene if you don't want it to look like it's coming straight out:

  3. Now, we want the flashlight to reach out into the distance. So we will change the Range value to 1000, and to make the light wider, we will change the Spot Angle...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at ₹800/month. Cancel anytime