Unity 2018 Cookbook - Third Edition

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In the script class PlayerInventory, the variable inventory is a C# List<>. This is a flexible data structure that can be sorted, searched, and dynamically (at runtime, when the game is being played) have items added to and removed from it. The <PickUp> in pointy brackets means that variable inventory will contain a list of PickUp objects. For this recipe, our PickUp class just has a single field, a string description, but we'll add more sophisticated data items in PickUp classes in later recipes. This variable inventory is initialized to be a new, empty C# List of PickUp objects.

Before the scene starts, the Awake() method of script class Player caches a reference to the PlayerInventoryDisplay scripted component.

When the ...