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You're reading from Unity 2021 Cookbook Over 140 recipes to take your Unity game development skills to the next level

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839217616

Length 816 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Shaun Ferns

Matt Smith

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

1. Displaying Data with Core UI Elements

2. Responding to User Events for Interactive UIs FREE CHAPTER

3. Inventory and Advanced UIs

4. Playing and Manipulating Sounds

5. Creating 3D Objects, Terrains, Textures, and Materials

6. 2D Animation and Physics

7. Characters, Game Kits, and Starter Assets

8. Web Server Communication and Online Version Control

9. Controlling and Choosing Positions

10. Navigation Meshes and Agents

11. Cameras and Rendering Pipelines

12. Shader Graphs and Video Players

13. Advanced Topics - Gizmos, Automated Testing, and More

14. Particle Systems and Other Visual Effects

15. Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR)

How it works...

The C# class defines a Boolean variable, facingRight, that stores a true/false value that corresponds to whether the bug is facing right. Since our bug sprite was initially facing right, we set the initial value of facingRight to true to match this.

Every frame, the Update() method checks whether the Left or Right arrow keys have been pressed. If the Left arrow key is pressed and the bug is facing right, then the Flip() method is called; likewise, if the Right arrow key is pressed and the bug is facing left (that is, facing right is false), the Flip() method is called.

The Flip() method performs two actions; the first simply reverses the true/false value in the facingRight variable. The second action changes the +/- sign of the X-value of the localScale property of the transform. Reversing the sign of localScale results in the 2D flip that we desire. Look inside the PlayerControl script for the PotatoMan character...

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Authors (2)

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a computing academic at what will soon become the Technological University of Dublin, Ireland. Matt started computer programming on a brand new ZX80 and submitted 2 games for his computing O-level exam. After nearly 10 years as a full-time student on a succession of scholarships, he gained several degrees in computing, including a PhD in computational musicology. In 1985 Matt wrote the lyrics, and was in the band (and sang, sorry about that by the way) whose music appeared on the B-side of the audio cassette carrying the computer game Confuzion. Matt is a documentation author for the open source Fungus Unity project. With his children he studies and teaches Taekwon-Do, and all three of them are beginning guitar lessons in 2018.

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Shaun Ferns

Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.

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