GAME DEVELOPMENT FOR BEGINNERS
Scenes are part of every game. Changing scene based on the game’s story or based on the menu is a common functionality required in all game engines. In Unity, the Scene Manager does that job. The Unity Scene Manager manages your scenes at runtime. It is a well-equipped class of Unity engine that we can … Read more
Random number generation is used in a lot of applications. In games, random numbers are mostly used for level design to achieve the procedural generation of levels. Every random number generator uses a different algorithm. Unity random number generation uses Marsaglia’s Xorshift 128 algorithm. Though the generated number or sequence in Unity is pseudo-random, it is … Read more
When you add a game object in the Unity scene, the first thing that you notice in the inspector window is the Transform component. Unity transform defines the position, rotation, and scale of a game object in the 3D world. Transform is the most basic, yet important component to know while learning Unity. You cannot … Read more
The very first thing that anyone notices when starting with scripting in Unity is the Unity Start and the Unity Update function. They are added by default in all the new scripts and there is also an explanation of what these functions do. But there is confusion among new developers in how the Start and … Read more
I woke up one day and tried to update my Unity version to the new one and to my surprise there was a new software called Unity hub in place of Unity installer. From the start of 2019 Unity doesn’t give the option to install Unity without Hub. So, I started to do some research … Read more
Unity Raycast is a very handy function and can be used for many situations like finding game objects, interacting with objects, shooting, path detection and more in game development. That is why this tutorial is part of our comprehensive resource to learn Unity. Raycasting is a technique that simulates the behavior of a virtual ray … Read more
No matter what type of game you are making, having an option to pause the game is mandatory for good user experience. You can pause the game with or without a pause menu depending on your game type. In Unity, there are a few options when it comes to pausing a game. In this post … Read more
Awake() and Start() are the initialization functions for any script in Unity. They are the very first functions that are called in a script. The order of execution may differ but Awake() and Start() can be used interchangeably in most cases. In this article, we will see the difference between how Awake() and Start() work … Read more
Timers are useful in many game scenarios and that is what we are going to learn next in our learn unity series. You can use them to create delay, display time or countdown for an event. In this tutorial, we will see how to create a Countdown timer in Unity with C# script. We will … Read more