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March | 2015 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Monthly Archives: March 2015. Complete Unity Pong Clone Tutorial for Beginners. Here is a list of the posts in my 10-part Pong Clone tutorial. If you want to make games, but have no idea where to start…start here! You don’t need any coding or Unity experience (but familiarity with the game. Would be helpful, as would knowledge of some game and programming jargon like ‘sprite’ or ‘variable’). Pong Tutorial Part 1. Pong Tutorial Part 2. Pong Tutorial Part 3. March 14, 2015.

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A Navigation Helper for Unity | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. A Navigation Helper for Unity. Unity lacks a way to pass parameters to a new scene. If you want to send some game state data to the next level you have several options, such as. Or persistent classes, but they are not always elegant solutions. I decided to copy. From Windows Store apps. Allows you to send an object when navigating to a new page (scene), like this:. NavigationHelper.Navigate(Level2, myParamater);. Is then retrieved by the new scene when it loads. Variabl...

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Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 4 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 4. Physics and Scripting 101. We’ve now got most of the groundwork out of the way and can start to dabble in physics and scripting, which will quickly start turning this abstract project into a game. I will assume you have some amount of programming knowledge or experience, but if you don’t you can still follow along. I will explain what the code is doing. Again to return to editing mode. Then change the Play mode tint.

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February | 2015 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Monthly Archives: February 2015. Giving Enemies the Power of Sight! Enemies are more challenging when they have some intelligence. A great start to building enemy AI is to grant enemies the power of sight! Sight is really a test that there is clear space between the enemy’s eyes and the player. With that knowledge it’s simple to work out a solution. One enemy has line of sight, the other doesn’t. Ou can’t read newspaper print from a kilometre away). IF the enemy is faci...

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May | 2015 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Monthly Archives: May 2015. A Navigation Helper for Unity. Unity lacks a way to pass parameters to a new scene. If you want to send some game state data to the next level you have several options, such as. Or persistent classes, but they are not always elegant solutions. I decided to copy. From Windows Store apps. Allows you to send an object when navigating to a new page (scene), like this:. NavigationHelper.Navigate(Level2, myParamater);. Variable. You can access ...

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Unity guides for all skill levels. My free downloads and Unity assets are on this page, as well as some info for my (non-free) Unity asset Resolution Magic 2D, which makes it easy to scale your 2D Unity games to look great on all devices and screens. Resolution Magic 2D (not free, but cheap). Without Resolution Magic 2D:. Without Resolution Magic, vital game information can be ‘cut off’ when running on differently sized/shaped screens and devices. With Resolution Magic 2D:. September 6, 2016 at 3:23 pm.

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Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 1 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 1. Do you want to create a game in Unity, but don’t know where to start? This guide is for you. In simple steps, explaining everything as I go, I’ll show you how to use Unity to build a 2D Pong clone. UPDATED FOR UNITY 5. If you don’t already have Unity, download a free copy right now: http:/ unity3d.com/unity/download. This guide is updated for Unity 5 (free version). I will assume you have:. Note to Mac users: every...

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Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 8 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Beginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 8. What’s on the Menu? By the end of Part 7. We had a mostly feature-complete. Clone But there’s still work to do, and there are still lots of cool things to learn about using Unity. In this part we’ll dip our toes into Unity graphical user interface (GUI) features to display the score, create a menu screen, and do some other UI stuff. The Unity GUI system works via a. You add a Canvas. Add a UI Text. GUI view can be ...

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Complete Unity Pong Clone Tutorial for Beginners | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Complete Unity Pong Clone Tutorial for Beginners. Here is a list of the posts in my 10-part Pong Clone tutorial. If you want to make games, but have no idea where to start…start here! You don’t need any coding or Unity experience (but familiarity with the game. Would be helpful, as would knowledge of some game and programming jargon like ‘sprite’ or ‘variable’). You’ll need a code editor as well, but Unity will install a free one, MonoDevelop, automatically. On Word Gam...

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January | 2015 | Unity School

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Unity guides for all skill levels. Monthly Archives: January 2015. Using the Debug Class. Class with some really useful functions for speeding up development, testing, and debugging. You probably already use. To add messages to the Console. Such as keeping track of variables or notifying you of certain conditions:. DebugLog(Player inside trigger area); Debug.Log(X value: x.ToString() ;. If you don’t use. It will print anything you want into Unity’s console window while running the game in the Editor.