In this final part, we will improve our project by adding areas to the Nav Mesh with some different rules, and also use the CalculatePath() method to make the enemy check their path before deciding to follow it or not. Area Types We will now create a new terrain so that we can treat areas … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 5: Areas and Paths
And as with the rest of this series, you can grab a download of the full code as it should be at the end of this part of the tutorial at the bottom of this tutorial, so you can compare your own project. Now that we’ve covered the basics of using the Nav Mesh, Nav … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 4: Patrolling and Chasing
In Part 1 we created a simple Nav Mesh, and made an agent walk on it, and in Part 2, we added some obstacles to introduce some actual need for navigation. In this part, we will link multiple meshes together and use off-mesh links to join them. This will vastly increase the capabilities of our … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 3: Going Off Mesh
In Part 1, we created a Nav Mesh and a Nav Mesh Agent to navigate on that mesh. We included a simple script to make the agent move from their starting position to a pre-determined target position, and they moved in a straight line. In this part, we will add some obstacles to the terrain … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 2: Obstacles and Targets
I see a lot of great tutorials that make a big mistake. They advocate making lots of public fields/variables in Unity scripts. Even some of the best tutorials do this, and it’s BAD! It’s no surprise then, that many beginners make all of their variables public. Public fields have their place (or they wouldn’t be … Read moreTMI! Stop Making Everything Public!
In this tutorial, we’ll make a player character move to a position on the screen where the mouse was clicked or a finger tapped, just like in real-time strategy games and many mobile games. What We’ll Do The steps required are: Create a simple player. Detect a touch/mouse click position on the screen. Write a … Read moreMove Player to Click/Touch Position
In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to modify a UI object when the player moves the mouse over it. As always, if anything in this tutorial is new to you, refer to my Pong tutorial where I explain all the major Unity functionality in detail. In this tutorial we use Event Triggers, which … Read moreUI MouseOver
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple input manager to handle directional input via the keyboard, a gamepad, or on-screen touch controls. Though this tutorial only covers directional movement, it can easily be extended to add extra functionality, such as a jump button. As always, if you get stuck on … Read moreA Simple Input Manager for Keyboard, Gamepad, and Touch
The article details how I went from wanting to make a game – but with no idea – through to finding and developing an idea through the process of development and prototyping. After finding myself with the time to make a new game (my third), I lacked one thing: an idea. I had prototyped a few … Read moreThe Making of Mouse Dreams: Part 1 – Getting Game Ideas
I’m currently polishing my 3rd game, Mouse Dreams, and I wanted my UI to fade in and out smoothly for a polished look. Fading a canvas requires that your canvas has a Canvas Group component, so make sure it does! Look at that first property in the Canvas Group component – Alpha. To fade this canvas … Read moreFade your UI In and Out