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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide

by Terry Norton
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
292 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Unity's Update and Start methods

Every time you create a script in Unity, these two skeleton methods are included. That's because they are rather important. These are the most commonly used MonoBehaviour methods, see the next screenshot for others. I like to call these Unity's magic methods because you don't call these methods, Unity does. It's usually important that at least one MonoBehaviour method is included in a Unity script to cause the script to execute. I say usually because other methods in the script may be called from another script or class.

How do I know these two methods are called by Unity and that they are MonoBehaviour methods? Here, the Unity Scripting Reference is your friend.

Here's just a portion of the methods Unity can ...

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