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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

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ISBN-13 9781804613245

Length 548 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Unity

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3D Game Development

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Bruno Cicanci

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Real-Time Strategy Games FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity and the Dragoncraft Project

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Our Level Design

5. Chapter 4: Creating the User Interface and HUD

6. Part 2: The Combat Units

7. Chapter 5: Spawning an Army of Units

8. Chapter 6: Commanding an Army of Units

9. Chapter 7: Attacking and Defending Units

10. Chapter 8: Implementing the Pathfinder

11. Part 3: The Battlefield

12. Chapter 9: Adding Enemies

13. Chapter 10: Creating an AI to Attack the Player

14. Chapter 11: Adding Enemies to the Map

15. Part 4: The Gameplay

16. Chapter 12: Balancing the Game’s Difficulty

17. Chapter 13: Producing and Gathering Resources

18. Chapter 14: Crafting Buildings and Defense Towers

19. Chapter 15: Tracking Progression and Objectives

20. Chapter 16: Exporting and Expanding Your Game

21. Index

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Using Visual Studio Code as the default IDE

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful IDE that provides extensions to expand the supported programming languages and technologies you want to use. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and click on the Download button. Select the option that matches your operating system:

Figure 2.4 – Visual Studio Code download

Once downloaded, unzip the file and double-click it to launch the IDE. On the left-hand side of the screen, select Extensions and search for C#, as shown in the following screenshot. Click Install to add C# support to Visual Studio Code:

Figure 2.5 – Visual Studio Code C# extension

Now that Visual Studio Code has been installed and configured, we can create a new Unity project and set it up as the default IDE.

Launch Unity Hub and click on the New Project button in the top-right corner. Then, select...

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