This is the second part of my create with code cheat sheet that is made to help me find certain code related topics from the Unity3D course. I see my self constantly coming back to it and its a very good base to start with Unity. It does not help much with very specific topics like releasing a game, adding advertisement or analytics to it, but for writing code it’s perfect.
This time it’s about more advanced topics like game mechanics and user interface. Even if I tend to use different tools for the UI is this always a good reference in how to connect certain elements. I am sure to write about additional tools in the future and you can find it than in my games section on this blog, here!
Game Mechanics – cheat sheet
- Texture Wraps
- The camera as a child object
- Global vs Local coordinates
- Get the direction of other objects
- Physics Materials
- Defining vectors in 3D space
- Normalizing values
- Methods with return values
- Debug concatenation
- Local component variables
- IEnumerators and WaitForSeconds()
- Coroutines
- SetActive(true/false)
- For-loops
- Increment (++) operator
- Custom methods with parameters
- FindObjectsOfType
User Interface – cheat sheet
- 2D View
- AddTorque
- Game Manager
- Lists
- While Loops
- Mouse Events
- TextMeshPro
- Canvas
- Anchor Points
- Import Libraries
- Custom methods with parameters
- Calling methods from other scripts
- Game states
- Buttons
- On Click events
- Scene management Library
- UI Library
- Booleans to control game states
- AddListener()
- Passing parameters between scripts
- Divide/Assign (/=) operator
- Grouping child objects
Create with Code – Next Steps
- Optimization
- Serialized Fields
- read-only / const / static / protected
- Event Functions
- FixedUpdate() vs. Update() vs. LateUpdate()
- Awake() vs. Start()
- Object Pooling
- Searching on Unity Answers, Forum, Scripting API
- Troubleshooting to resolve bugs
- AddRelativeForce, Center of Mass, RoundToInt
- Modulus/Remainder (%) operator
- Looping through lists
- Custom methods with bool return
That’s it for the last part of the create with code cheat sheet, I am sure there will be more cheat sheets in the future and other material about more extended topics. Like how to add advertisement and analytics in a project, what to take care of when you want to create a child’s app for iOS and how to launch a game in general.
Check out my current game projects here! Leave me a comment and if you are interested in my development environment, like my self-hosted Trello called “Task Cafe” or my self-hosted GitHub repository than follow this link here!
