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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

You're reading from   Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C# Create professional games with solid gameplay features and professional-grade workflow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788479837
Length 568 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparation and Asset Configuring 2. Level Design and Structure FREE CHAPTER 3. Player Controls - Movement 4. Player Controls - Typing and Health 5. Enemies and Artificial Intelligence 6. Project Management and Version Control 7. Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States 8. Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Developing the Idle state

The Idle state is ultimately the starting state for a zombie, and a passive state. Normally, an NPC in Idle will stand around and just look about. It's a state from which action may begin. For Dead Keys, the zombies remain in Idle until instructed to change, based on camera movement and the position of the player:

Idle state

As the player enters the Chase range of an NPC, the NPC comes to life. In many games, a deciding factor will be the line of sight. The enemy chases, or pursues, the player as they enter their line of sight. However, for Dead Keys, this is unnecessary because camera movement, as the player progresses from one point to the next, determines whether an NPC moves into view. For this reason, the StateIdle coroutine will remain almost empty. However, the SetInteger function will be called to set the animator's integer parameter...

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