Essential Coding Concepts-1

Week 4
Course Title: Game Development and Modeling
Instructor: Nauman Ahmed
Email: snaumanb@gmail.com
• Instantiate
• Invoke
• Prefab Instantiate
• Prefab destroy
• Playerprefs and data storage
• Understanding Vector Arithmetic
• Vector Distance and Direction
• Magnitude of a Vector
• Vector Normalization
 Instantiate

• Instantiate can be used to create new

objects at runtime.
– Examples include objects used for projectiles,
or particle systems for explosion effects.
– public static Object Instantiate(Object original);
– public static Object Instantiate(Object original, Transform
parent);
– public static Object Instantiate(Object original, Transform
parent, bool instantiateInWorldSpace);
– public static Object Instantiate(Object original, Vector3
position, Quaternion rotation);
– public static Object Instantiate(Object original, Vector3
position, Quaternion rotation, Transform parent);
 Invoke

• Invokes the method methodName in time

seconds.
– If time is set to 0, the method is invoked at the
next Update cycle. In this case, it's better to
call the function directly.

Invoke("LaunchProjectile", 2.0f);
 Prefab

• Unity’s Prefab system allows you to create,

configure, and store a GameObject
complete with all its components, property
values, and child GameObjects as a
reusable Asset.
– The Prefab Asset acts as a template from
which you can create new Prefab instances in
the Scene
– When you want to reuse a GameObject
configured in a particular way – like a non-
player character (NPC), prop or piece of sce
 Prefab Instantiate
using UnityEngine;
public class InstantiationExample : MonoBehaviour
{
// Reference to the Prefab. Drag a Prefab into this field in the Inspector.
public GameObject myPrefab;

// This script will simply instantiate the Prefab when the game starts.
void Start()
{
// Instantiate at position (0, 0, 0) and zero rotation.
Instantiate(myPrefab, new Vector3(0, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity);
}
}
 Prefab destroy
using UnityEngine;
public class InstantiationExample : MonoBehaviour
{
// Reference to the Prefab. Drag a Prefab into this field in the Inspector.
public GameObject myPrefab;

// This script will simply instantiate the Prefab when the game starts.
void Start()
{
// Instantiate at position (0, 0, 0) and zero rotation.
GameObject g = Instantiate(myPrefab, new Vector3(0, 0, 0),
Quaternion.identity);
Destroy(g,.5f);
}
}
 Playerprefs and data storage
• PlayerPrefs is a useful built-in utility that makes it easy to
persist certain types of data between scenes.
– PlayerPrefs is accessed like a hashtable or dictionary.
– You can use the included SetString(), SetInt(), or SetFloat()
methods to set a key/value pair.

void SetLanguagePreference(string language)

{
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“language”, language);
}

void SetDifficultyPreference(string difficulty)

{
PlayerPrefs.SetString(“difficulty”, difficulty);
}
 Understanding Vector Arithmetic
• Addition

• Subtraction

• Dot Product
 Understanding Vector Arithmetic
• Cross Product
 Vector Distance and Direction
• The length of the line shows its magnitude and the arrowhead
points in the direction.
• And it doesn't matter which order we add them, we get the same
result
 Magnitude of a Vector
• |a| = √( x2 + y2 )

• Example: what is the magnitude of the vector b = (6,8) ?

– |b| = √( 62 + 82) = √( 36+64) = √100 = 10
 Vector Normalization
• Normalization consists of dividing every entry in a vector by its
magnitude to create a vector of length 1 known as the unit vector