To get the most out of this book

The main requirement for this book is having Unity Version 2018.2 or higher installed. In Chapter 9, Behavior Trees, we download Behavior Bricks, a free Behavior Tree plugin, which requires an account with the Unity Store. In Chapter 10, Machine Learning, we will use Unity's Machine Learning for Agents Toolkit, an official machine learning platform based on TensorFlow. For this reason, that chapter requires Python 3.6 to be installed.

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Conventions used

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The AdvanceFSM class basically manages all the FSMState(s) implemented, and keeps updated with the transitions and the current state."

A block of code is set as follows:

int throwDiceLoaded() { 
    Debug.Log("Throwing dice..."); 
      int randomProbability = Random.Range(1,101); 
      int diceResult = 0; 
      if (randomProbability < 36) { 
        diceResult = 6; 
      } 
      else { 
        diceResult = Random.Range(1,5); 
      } 
    Debug.Log("Result: " + diceResult); 
      return diceResult; 
  }

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Our Tank object is basically a simple Mesh with a Rigidbody component."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.