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Jun 8, 2024 · Python is the most popular programming language in the world. Unity is the most popular game engine in the world. To combine these two, a user guide from Unity is all you need.
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Dec 2, 2022 · The Unity Tutorial For Complete Beginners. Game Maker's Toolkit. 1.6M subscribers. Subscribed. 129K. 3.7M views 1 year ago.
- 47 min
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- Game Maker's Toolkit
- Unity Builtin Components
- Creating Custom Components
- Structure of A MonoBehaviour
- Manipulating Gameobjects
- Accessing Other Gameobjects and Components
- Raycasting
- Collision Detection
- Advanced Features
- Advice For Newcomers
- Nice Resources and Communities
The Actor Component Model
GameObjects on their own are pretty useless — as we’ve seen they’re pretty much just containers. In order to add functionality to them we have to add components, which are essentially scripts written in either C# or Javascript. Unity works off an Actor Component model, put simply the GameObjects are the actors and the Components are your scripts. If you’ve written any web apps before you’ll be familiar with the idea of creating small reusable components such as buttons, form elements, flexibl...
Key Built-in Components
I think it’s time for a few examples of the built in components provided by the Unity Games engine. 1. MeshFilter:Allows you to assign materials to a 3D mesh to a GameObject 2. MeshRender:Allows you to assign materials to a 3D Mesh 3. [Box | Mesh]Collider:Enables detection of GameObject during collisions 4. Rigidbody:Enables realistic physic simulation to act on GameObjects with 3d Meshes and will be trigger detection events on box colliders 5. Light:Illuminates portions of your scene 6. Came...
The builtin components control physics and visuals primarily, but to really make a game, you’re going to need to accept user input and manipulate those standard components as well as the GameObjects themselves. As a general recommendation I’d advise against using Javascript in Unity. It hasn’t been kept updated with all the great stuff that came wi...
Key Functions
All components inherit from the MonoBehaviour Class. It includes several standard methods, most importantly: 1. void Start()which is called whenever an object containing the script is instantiated in the scene. This is useful anytime we want to perform some initialisation code, eg. set a player’s equipment after they spawn into a match. 2. void Update()which is called every frame. This is where the bulk of code involving user input will go, updating various properties such as the motion of th...
Inspector Variables
Often we want to make components as flexible as possible. For example all weapons might have a different damage, rate of fire, has_sight etc. Whilst all the weapons are essentially the same thing we may want to be able to create different variations quickly through the unity editor. Another example where we might want to do this is when creating a UI component that tracks user mouse movements and places a cursor in the viewport. Here we might want to control the sensitivity of the cursor to m...
Accepting user input
Of course, we want our game to respond to user input. The most common ways to do that are using the following methods in the Update() function of a component (or anywhere else you like): 1. Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) Returns True W key is being held down 2. Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) Returns True when W key is first pressed 3. Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”), Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”) Returns between -1,1 mouse input movement
Once we have user input we want GameObjects within our scene to respond. There are several types of responses we may consider: 1. Translation, Rotation, Scale 2. Create new GameObjects 3. Sending messages to existing GameObjects / components
Often we need to communicate with other GameObjects as well as their associated components. Once you have a reference to a game object this is pretty simple. After that you can access any of the public methods / variables of the component in order to manipulate the GameObject. This is the straightforward bit, however actually obtaining the referenc...
You may have heard of this before when people compare FPS games that are ‘physics based’ or ‘ray based’. Raycasting is essentially like having a laser pointer which, when it comes into contact with a ‘collider’ or ‘rigidbody’, it returns a ‘hit’ and passes back the details of the object. There are two scenarios where this comes in handy (There’s pr...
Earlier we mentioned the Collider and Rigidbody components which can be added to an object. The rule for collisions is that one object in the collision must have a rigidbody and the other a collider (or both have both components). Note that when using raycasting, rays will only interact with objects with collider components attached. Once setup wit...
We won’t go into any of this now but perhaps in a future article — just to make you aware that they exist.
If you’re planning on writing your first game, don’t underestimate the complexity and time it takes to write even the most trivial of games. Remember most of the games that come out on Steam have teams working on them for years full-time! Pick a simple concept and break it down into small achievable milestones. It’s highly recommended to separate y...
Game design has one of the best communities of any out there, and there are loads of highly skilled pros in the industry who put content up for free or for next to nothing. It’s a field that requires 3d Modelers, Concept Artists, Game Designers, Programmers and so on. I’ve linked some great general resources that I’ve come across for each of these ...
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Feb 18, 2022 · There are ways to integrate Python scripts in Unity applications, but at its core, you'll need and want to learn C# and/or C++. Rust and IronPython are just distractions at your level, and IronPython a dead end.
