Unity Turn-Based Strategy Game: Intermediate C# Coding from Udemy

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Learning objectives

Take your skills from beginner to advanced.
Learn to manage and organize a complex project.
Advanced programming concepts, such as; c# generics, c# events, and custom structs.

Create a custom grid system.
Learn a* pathfinding.
Create actions while writing good high quality code.

Take your skills from beginner to advanced.
Learn to manage and organize a complex project.
Advanced programming concepts, such as; c# generics, c# events, and custom structs.
Create a custom grid system.
Learn a* pathfinding.
Create actions while writing good high quality code.

Syllabus

Introduction

Promo

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Hugo welcomes you to the course and gives you a glimpse of what you’ll be making!

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Lucy invites you to join us in our various community support forums in order to ask questions, connect with other students and share your progress.

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Download Unity Hub and Visual Studio Code, including the extensions for C# and Unity Code Snippets.

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If you're experiencing issues with intelliSense not working, this guide will walk you through several steps to hopefully get things working.

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This course is intended for folks who already have the fundamentals of C# understood. This particular lecture is a quick reminder for the core concepts that we'll assume you know already in this course.

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Any time we change our project during a lecture we will commit that change to a public source control repository for students to access. In this video we show you how to access that content.

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Let’s create a brand new Project with Unity 2022.1 and URP and set up the Editor Layout

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Verify that URP is correctly set up and import the Synty Prototype Pack Assets

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Set up Post Processing, Anti Aliasing and SSAO

Get your friendly units animated and moving using point-and-click mouse movement and handle unit selection.

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Introduction to Unit Movement and Selection section

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Let’s set up the basic Unit while keeping a good Game Object structure

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Make some simple code to Move a Unit to a target position

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Learn how to do a Raycast and the difference between Screen Position and World Position

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Get the Mouse World Position using a Physics Raycast and use a LayerMask to ensure it only hits the Floor

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Now that we have the Mouse World Position and Unit Movement, let’s combine them to make the Unit go to the Mouse Position

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Let’s learn the importance of writing good clean code and why you should use [SerializeField] private instead of public

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Let’s download some free Animations and set them up

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Learn all about the Animator and how to use our Animations

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Set up the Animator Parameters and learn how to trigger them through code to handle the transitions.

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Let’s make the Unit rotate to face the move direction

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Create the UnitActionSystem to handle which Unit is selected so we can click to select and order each individual unit.

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Let’s add a Visual to the Selected Unit and learn all about Events

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Let’s continue the last lecture and learn about the Singleton pattern

Grid System & Camera

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Introduction to the Grid System and Camera section

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Quick overview of the Grid System that we’re going to build

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Let’s start building the Grid System

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Create the Grid Object that is instantiated in every Grid Position

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Set up the Level Grid class to manage the entire Level Grid

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Install Cinemachine and set it up

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Let’s make a Camera Controller to Move and Rotate the Camera

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Add Zoom to the Camera Controller

Begin building the action system and create the UI for the player to select different actions.

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Intro to the Actions and UI section

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Let’s make a proper Move Action and refactor our code

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Let’s validate our Move Action grid positions

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Create a Visual Prefab to show on each Grid Position

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Let’s build our second action, a simple Spin Action, and create a Base class for all our Actions

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Add some logic to prevent multiple actions from running at the same time

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Create and set up the UI Canvas

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Build a UI to showcase buttons for all Actions on the Selected Unit

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Handle Click on the Action Buttons to swap the Selected Action

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Let’s refactor the code to use a general TakeAction(); method

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Listen to an Event and Update the Action Button UI visual to highlight the Selected Action

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Create a UI element to Show while there is an Active Action

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Let’s add the concept of Action Points so we have a limited number of actions we can take per turn

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Let’s create a Turn System that will manage the turn and reset the Unit’s Action Points

Enemies & Combat

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Intro to the Enemies and Combat section

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Create an Enemy based on the original Unit

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Let’s add a brand new Action for Shooting the Enemy

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Create a separate Unit Animator class to handle all the Animation logic

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Use the Trail Renderer and Particle System to make a nice Bullet visual and explosion

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Let’s create a simple Health System so Units can be Damaged and Die

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Set up a Ragdoll and spawn it when a Unit dies

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Build a World UI element on top of each Unity to display Health and Action Points

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Create a second Virtual Camera to show the Shoot Action from a different perspective

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Add the ability for the Grid Visual to have different Colors for each Action

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Let’s create a very Basic Enemy AI, just make the Enemies take Actions during their turn

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Let’s build upon the previous Enemy AI to make some more intelligent AI capable of Moving and Shooting

Learn about powerful C# generics and add A* pathfinding to your game.

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Intro to the Pathfinding section

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Learn about C# Generics and how useful they are

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Convert the Grid System to work with Generics

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Learn about how the A* Algorithm works before we start implementing it

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Create the Pathfinding script and set it up with a Grid Object just for Pathfinding

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Let’s implement the A* Pathfinding algorithm

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Add Obstacles to Pathfinding

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Let’s use Assets to build a nice Level Map

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Refactor the Move Action to work with Pathfinding

Add additional features and polish to you game and build a final level with all the features.

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Intro to the Polish Section

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Create a simple class to trigger some Screen Shake

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Let’s make a new Action to throw a Grenade that will deal damage in an Area

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With the Grenade Logic working, now let’s make it feel powerful with some great visuals

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Make some Destructible Crates that blow up with Grenades and update Pathfinding

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Learn to use ProBuilder to create some really satisfying destruction

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Create a melee Sword Action that deals massive damage but only when very close

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Let’s make an Action to Interact with a Door

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Let’s learn about C# interfaces and use them to make our Interact Action more generic

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Create a proper Input Manager script to hold all references to Input

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Refactor the Input Manager script to use the new Input System package

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Let’s take everything we built and create a really nice complete level

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Congratulations on completing this course! What’s next?

Let’s learn how to convert the entire game from a Square Grid onto a Hex Grid

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Intro to Hex Grid System Expansion

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Let’s see the Design that we’re going to implement and how Hex Grids differ from Square Grids

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Begin implementing the Hex Grid System by adding the Grid to World Position conversion and changing the visual

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Continue the Hex Grid implementation by adding the conversion from World Position onto Grid Position

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Modify the Pathfinding to work with the Hex Grid System

Bonus: Multi-Floors

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Intro to the Multi-Floors expansion

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Refactor the LevelGrid class to support multiple GridSystem’s at different Floors

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Add support for Multi-Floors on the Grid Visuals

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Refactor the Pathfinding to support Multiple Floors and find paths between them

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Define Pathfinding Links where Units can move up or down between the floors.

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Introduce yourself and share your experiences and expectations.
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Game Programmer

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Game Artist

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Game Designer

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Technical Artist

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Sound Designer

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Level Designer

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Game AI Programmer

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