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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x

You're reading from   Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x Develop your first interactive 2D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287596
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts 3. Getting into the Details of Variables 4. Getting into the Details of Methods 5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – From Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables — What Next? Index

The coin prefab

To make things a little easier, I have already prepared the visual part of our coin. Download Coin.unitypackage and import it into your project:

The coin prefab

Great job! Now we drag the Coin prefab into the Hierarchy view so that we can take a look at it. As mentioned before, I prepared this prefab visually. I have added Sprite Renderer to the game object and linked it with the coin sprite. I have also created a simple spin animation controlled by the Animator. Don't worry about it right now.

Now, you have to pick up from where I finished. Most collectables react with the environment through the physics of the game. We can use the 2D trigger here to react with the Player Game Object Rigidbody2D component. This is the exactly the same way we inserted LeaveTriggers into the game previously.

Select the coin and add the CircleCollider2D component. A green circle will appear around the coin, representing the triggering area. Make sure you tweak the radius value to roughly match the size...

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