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Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Unity 2020 Game Development Build, customize, and optimize professional games using Unity 2020 and C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642006
Length 580 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Designing a Game from Scratch 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Scenes and GameObjects 4. Chapter 4: Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder 5. Chapter 5: Importing and Integrating Assets 6. Chapter 6: Materials and Effects with URP and Shader Graph 7. Chapter 7: Visual Effects with Particle Systems and VFX Graph 8. Chapter 8: Lighting Using the Universal Render Pipeline 9. Chapter 9: Fullscreen Effects with postprocessing 10. Chapter 10: Sound and Music Integration 11. Chapter 11: User Interface Design 12. Chapter 12: Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline 13. Chapter 13: Introduction to Unity Scripting with C# 14. Chapter 14: Implementing Movement and Spawning 15. Chapter 15: Physics Collisions and Health System 16. Chapter 16: Win and Lose Conditions 17. Chapter 17: Scripting the UI, Sounds, and Graphics 18. Chapter 18: Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies 19. Chapter 19: Scene Performance Optimization 20. Chapter 20: Building the Project 21. Chapter 21: Finishing Touches 22. Chapter 22: Augmented Reality in Unity 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using events and instructions

Now that we have a script, we are ready to do something with it. We won't implement anything useful in this chapter, but we will settle the concepts to add some types of behavior for the scripts we are going to create in the next chapters.

In this section, we are going to cover the following concepts:

  • Events and instructions
  • Using fields in instructions
  • Common beginner errors

We are going to explore the Unity event system, which will allow us to respond to these situations by executing Unity functions. These functions will also be affected by the value of the editor, and fields exposed to our script will be configurable. Finally, we are going to discuss common scripting errors and how to solve them. Let's start by introducing the concept of Unity events.

Events and instructions

Unity allows us to create behavior in a cause-effect fashion, which is usually called an event system. An event is a situation that Unity...

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