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C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, 2nd Edition

Name: C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, 2nd Edition
Author: Jeff W. Murray
ISBN: 9781000359725

by Jeff W. Murray

March 2021

Intermediate to advanced

316 pages

8h 54m

English

CRC Press

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prerequisites
Chapter 1: Making Games in a Modular Way
1.1 Important Programming Concepts1.1.1 Manager and Controller Scripts1.1.1.1 Managers1.1.1.2 Controllers1.1.1.3 Communication between Classes1.1.1.4 Public Static1.1.1.5 Private Static1.1.2 The Singleton1.1.2.1 Using the Singleton in Unity1.1.3 Inheritance1.1.4 Coroutines1.1.5 Namespaces1.1.6 Finite State Machines (FSM)1.2 Naming Conventions1.3 Where to Now?

Chapter 2: Making a 2D Infinite Runner Game
2.1 Anatomy of a Unity Project2.2 Open Unity, Then the Example Project for This Chapter2.2.1 A Few Notes on the Example Project2.2.2 Sprites2.2.3 Animation2.3 Open the Main Game Scene2.4 The Game Manager2.5 Making Platforms to Run On2.6 Building the Player, RunMan2.6.1 Adding the RunMan Sprite2.6.2 Adding Physics and Collisions to RunMan2.6.3 Player Scripts2.6.4 RunMan Sounds2.6.5 Animating RunMan2.6.6 Scoring2.7 The Game Loop and the Game Manager2.7.1 Game States2.7.2 The Main Loop of RunMan_GameManager.cs2.7.3 Setting Up the RunMan_GameManager Component in the Editor2.8 The Demise of RunMan2.9 Adding the User Interface2.9.1 Main Menu Setup
Chapter 3: Building the Core Game Framework
3.1 Controllers and Managers3.1.1 Managers3.1.2 Controllers3.2 Core Framework Scripts3.2.1 BaseGameManager3.2.2 ExtendedCustomMonoBehaviour3.2.3 BaseCameraController
Chapter 4: Player Structure
4.1 A Player Controller4.2 Dealing with Input4.3 User Data4.3.1 The UserData Class4.3.2 The BaseUserManager Class4.4 The BasePlayerStatsController Class4.5 Managing Players
Chapter 5: Recipes Common Components
5.1 Introduction5.2 AI5.3 Camera5.3.1 Third-Person Camera5.3.2 Top-Down Camera5.4 Game Control5.4.1 GlobalRaceManager5.4.2 RaceController5.5 Input5.5.1 Mouse Input5.6 Level Loading5.7 ScriptableObjects5.7.1 ProfileScriptableObject5.8 Spawning5.8.1 A Spawner Component5.8.2 Trigger Spawning5.8.3 Timed Spawning5.9 User Interface5.9.1 CanvasManager5.9.2 ScreenAndAudioFader5.9.3 MenuWithProfiles5.10 Utility5.10.1 AlignToGround5.10.2 AutomaticDestroyObject5.10.3 AutoSpinObject5.10.4 FaceCamera5.10.5 LookAtCamera5.10.6 PretendFriction5.10.7 TimerClass5.10.7.1 Modifying the Timer to Update Automatically5.10.8 WaypointsController5.11 Weapons
Chapter 6: Player Movement Controllers
6.1 Humanoid Character6.2 Wheeled Vehicle6.3 Wheel Alignment6.4 2D Platform Character Controller
Chapter 7: Weapon Systems
7.1 Building the Scripts7.1.1 The BaseWeaponController Class7.1.2 BaseWeaponScript7.1.3 Switching between Weapons
Chapter 8: Waypoints Manager
8.1 Waypoint System
Chapter 9: Recipe Sound and Audio
9.1 AudioMixers and Mixing Audio in Unity9.1.1 Mixing Audio9.1.2 Exposing Mixer Properties to Modify Them with Scripts9.1.3 Audio Effects9.2 The BaseSoundManager Class9.3 Adding Sound to Weapons
Chapter 10: AI Manager
10.1 AI States10.2 The BaseAIController Class – Base AI Control10.3 Enemy Stats10.4 The AIBotController Class – Making an Enemy Bot Controller10.5 The AISteeringController Class – An AI Steering Controller10.6 Adding Weapon Control to the AI Controller10.6.1 Attack States10.6.2 BaseEnemyWeaponController
Chapter 11: Menus and User Interface
11.1 CanvasManager Class/Canvas Management11.2 The Main Menu11.2.1 Designing the Main Menu11.2.2 The BaseMainMenuManager Script11.2.3 Combining BaseMainMenuManager to Use the ProfileManager Script for Saving and Loading Audio Settings11.3 In-Game User Interface
Chapter 12: Saving and Loading Profiles
12.1 The Save Profile ScriptableObject12.2 The BaseProfileManager Class
Chapter 13: Loading Level Scenes
13.1 A Script for Loading Levels: LevelLoader.cs13.2 Multiple Level Loading13.3 Building a Multi-Scene Level Loader in Unity
Chapter 14: Racing Game
14.1 Ingredients14.2 Main Menu Scene Overview14.3 Level Select Scene Overview14.4 The Core Scene Overview14.4.1 Game Manager – The RaceGameManager Class14.4.2 Race Control – The GlobalRaceManager Class14.4.3 Race Control – The RaceController Class14.4.4 Race Control – RacePlayerController Class14.4.5 Audio14.4.5.1 Vehicle Audio14.4.5.2 Incidental Sounds14.4.6 User Interface
Chapter 15: Blaster Game Example
15.1 Ingredients15.2 Main Menu Scene Overview15.3 The Core Scene Overview15.3.1 The BlasterGameManager Class15.3.2 The BlasterPlayer Class15.3.3 Enemy Bots and the BlasterEnemyBot Class15.3.4 Weapons and Projectiles15.3.5 User Interface15.4 Level Scenes15.4.1 Spawning Enemies
Index

Content preview from C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, 2nd Edition

3 Building the Core Game Framework

This chapter will give context to the design decisions made in the core framework as well as providing a good base for understanding how the individual code recipes work together and why they may sometimes have dependencies on other Components.

The framework for this book (as seen in Figure 3.1) features six main areas:

Game Manager

The Game Manager acts like a central communication script for all parts of the game and oversees game state.
Players

Players may already be present in the game scene or instantiated by the Game Manager. The players structure will be explored later in Chapter 4 of this book.
AI and enemies

As with players, AI controlled characters, or enemies may already be present in the ...

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