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3D Game Kit Walkthrough

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3D Game Kit

The Explorer: 3D Game Kit. A collection of mechanics, tools, systems and assets to hook up gameplay without writing any code.

If you liked the 2D Game Kit, we're now bringing you the three-dimensional world of Ellen and her mission to explore the unknown alien landscape where her dropship has crash landed. 

The Explorer: 3D Game Kit

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Introduction to Quick Start Guide

Making a New Scene

Adding a Moving Platform in 3D Game Kit

Opening a Door with a Command

Enemies in the 3D Game Kit

Damaging with Objects in 3D Game Kit

Decorating in 3D Game Kit

Teleporting the Player in 3D Game Kit

Having Fun with 3D Game Kit

Unity Learn | 3D Game Kit

MAKE GAMES WITHOUT CODE! - Unity 3D Game Kit

This written guide will walk you through setting up an empty Scene in the 3D Game Kit to start creating a new level. This will walk you through some of the fundamentals used in this Kit to create gameplay. The Kit comes with a pre-made game, which contains examples of every part of the Kit in use if you get stuck for ideas. To learn how to navigate and move through the Editor, check out the Using the Unity Interface tutorial.

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This written guide will walk you through setting up an empty Scene to start creating a new level with the Game Kit. This will walk you through some of the fundamentals used in this Kit to create gameplay.

The Kit comes with a pre-made game, which contains examples of every part of the Kit in use if you get stuck for ideas.

To learn how to navigate and move through the Editor, check out our Using the Unity Interface Tutorial.

Before you start, check out the video below for a brief overview of what you can achieve:

Let’s begin by creating a New Scene. We have made a tool that can create a scene with everything you need to have some ground and Ellen, our hero, able to run around and attack.

In New Scene Name, enter a name for your scene.

Your new Scene will show ground, Ellen, some UI and Game Menus.

The controls for Ellen (our player character) are as follows:

We’ll be adding a moving platform to our scene. All interactables are in Prefabs > Interactables

Go to Assets > 3DGameKit > Prefabs > Interactables

Left Click and Drag MovingPlatform into the Scene View

Use the Transform Tools to Translate (W), Rotate (E) and Scale (R) the platform where you like.

The MovingPlatform will be stationary. Let’s make it move:

Locate the End Point Tool on the MovingPlatform in the Scene View

Use the Preview Position slider to view where the Platform will go

In the Simple Translator Component, tick the Activate box

Your MovingPlatform will move up and will stop when it reaches the top of the path you have set.

Let’s make this move back and forth, with the MovingPlatfrom selected:

The MovingPlatform will now move to the top and come back down again. The MovingPlatfrom will go to any position you set as the End Point.

In the 3D Game Kit, Game Commands send a signal to other objects in Unity telling them to perform an action.

We’ll be opening a Door using a Pressure Pad. Let’s add a Door to the scene:

In the Project Window, go to Prefabs > Interactables

Find DoorSmall and drag it into the Scene View

The Gizmos on this object can be overwhelming. They can be adjusted to reveal only the Transform tools for the object or easy placement:

With DoorSmall selected in the Hierarchy, Navigate to the Inspector.

Click on the arrow on the Simple Translator Component to collapse it

Only the Transform tool for the object will now be visible.

Position DoorSmall using the Transform Tools where you like.

In the Project Window go to Prefabs > Interactables

Find PressurePad and click and drag it into the Scene View

Use the Transform Tools and place it near the door

Now let’s connect the PressurePad and DoorSmall so that the Door opens when Ellen steps on the Pressure Pad.

In the Hierarchy click on PressurePad to select it

In the Hierarchy, click and Drag DoorSmall to the Interactive Object slot in the Send on Trigger Enter Component on the PressurePad

In the Scene View there should be a white arrowed line showing a connection from PressurePad to DoorSmall.

The Pressure Pad will illuminate, descend and make the door open when Ellen steps on it.

We have 3 premade enemies in the 3D Game Kit. They can be found in Prefabs > Characters > Enemies > […..]

The enemies are Chomper, Spitter and Grenadier. Chomper is a close range melee enemy, Spitter is a long range projectile enemy and Grenadier is a boss type enemy with specific attack patterns, a mix of projectile, melee and a shield burst defense.

Let’s place a Chomper in the scene for Ellen to fight:

In the Project Window go to Prefabs > Characters > Enemies > Chomper

Use the Transform Tools to position Chomper where you like

A large dark blue semi-circle will appear in front of Chomper, this is his Detection Radius. When Ellen walks into this area, he will chase and attack her.

Let’s reduce the area in which he can see, with Chomper selected in the Hierarchy.

In the Inspector, navigate to the Chomper Behaviour Component

Expand Player Scanner by click the arrow next to it

Let’s also make Chomper only be able to see from the front:

Now Chomper can only see what is in front of him and at a much closer distance.

Note: To remove this Gizmo from the Scene View, collapse the Chomper Behaviour Component.

Chomper will detect Ellen, but will only run on the spot. We need to tell Chomper where he can move on the ground, we do this by adding a NavMesh Surface.

Hit Enter on the Keyboard or click on the Script to add the Component to the Plane

Navigate to the Nav Mesh Surface Component

Set Agent Type to Chomper (This is used for all enemy types)

Now on Include Layers, select Environment

At the bottom of the Nav Mesh Surface Component click Bake

A light blue surface will appear on top of the ground moving platform. This tells any enemy you place in the scene where they can walk.

Chomper will now run after you and attack!

Use Left Mouse Click to attack with your Staff!

Chomper will die after one hit. To increase this:

In the Inspector navigate to the Damageable Component

Increase Max Hit Points to how many hits you want Chomper to take before he dies. Ellen’s Staff deals 1 Hit Point

We can inflict damage on objects that has a Damageable Component using a Contact Damager.

We can Demonstrate how this works using a box and the Chomper

Find the DestructibleBox Prefab and click and drag it into the Scene View

Use the Translate Tool to position the box above Chomper

Place it high up so you have time to view it in testing

The box will fall and land on Chomper and stay there, nothing happens.

Note: Don’t get too close to Chomper or he’ll chase after Ellen. You can always reduce his Detection Radius to 0 if you wish.

We need the box to be causing damage when it hits Chomper.

In the Hierarchy click the arrow next to DestructibleBox to expose its Children

Scroll to the bottom of the Inspector and Click Add Component

Hit Enter on your Keyboard or Click on the Box Collider Component to add it to the DestructibleBox

On the Box Collider Component tick the Is Trigger box

Hit Enter on your Keyboard or Click on the Contact Damager Script to add it as a Component

In the Contact Damager Component set the Amount to 3

Note that the Damage amount must be equal to the Max Hit Points you set for Chomper in order for him to receive the full amount of damage. We changed it to 3 in our project, ensure you check the Max Hit Points on Chomper’s Damageable Component

The box will land on Chomper, it will lose its health, turn into its ragdoll state and the box will bounce away. We have successfully caused enough damage to kill the Chomper, but this effect doesn’t look great. We can make the box break when it hits Chomper. It already has a Contact Damager, so let’s adapt it to affect the box.

Click Add Component and search for Contact Damager

Hit Enter on the Keyboard or click on the Script to add it to Chomper

In the Damaged Layer drop down select Enemy

The box will fall on Chomper, break on impact and make Chomper lose all health and ragdoll.

In the Game Kit we provide all the environment objects we used to build the example game.

You can find these in Prefabs > Environment > [….]

They are split into folders of different types of assets. Go through the folders and start building out your scene.

Note: You will need to rebake the NavMesh for your enemies to know that the new surfaces you add are walkable or that they need to avoid objects (like big plants).

To further spruce up your scene, we have created a Rock Painter and a Vegetation Painter. These tools allow you to place vegetation and rocks with varying sizes and rotations while keeping them aligned with the surface you are painting on.

In the Hierarchy locate VegetationPainter

Click on the down arrow to expand its children

Hover the mouse over the ground in the Scene View

Left click to place some grass/lilly pads where you want them.

You can change the type of object being placed to do this:

In the Instance Painter component there are pictures of each prefab in the painter.

Click on the white highlighted box to select that Prefab to paint with.

Controls for the painter can be found at the top of the Instance Painter Component, some controls to get your started:

Any object you paint on will be stored as a Child of the Parent. For example:

Every object of that type from the paint will be stored here as a child. You can also click on these to individually edit and place them.

The process is the same to paint VegetationSmall, VegetationMedium & VegetationLarge

Click on the arrow to expand its Children

Hover your mouse over the desired area to place rocks and Click to place.

We have a teleporting system in the Game Kit. You can teleport Ellen to other Levels or to different places within your scene.

Let’s create a Teleporter within a scene:

In the Project Window go to Prefabs > Environment > Structures

Drag GateWayHugeTeleporter into the scene

As the name suggests this Gateway is huge:

Use the Scale Tool and Translate Tools to position it and scale it to Ellen's size

In the Hierarchy expand GatewayHugeTeleporter to expose its children

Hit Enter on your Keyboard or Click on BoxCollider to add the Component to TeleportPlane

On the Box Collider Component tick Is Trigger

Hit Enter on the Keyboard or click on the Teleporter Script to add it to TeleportPlane

Click on the arrow next to Checkpoint to expand its children

With TeleporterPlane selected in the Hierarchy

Drag Checkpoint (The child) into the Destination Transform field of the Teleporter Component

In the Hiearchy find and expand Ellen to reveal its children

With TeleportPlane selected in the Hierarchy

Drag RespawnParticles into Enter Effect on the Teleporter

Drag RespawnParticles into Exit Effect on the Teleporter

Press Play and test by running into the teleporter

When walking through the teleporter, Ellen will teleport to the location where she initially spawns and blue particles will surround her.

Most objects within the Kit play with the Events system seen in the Pressure Pad setup.

Explore the existing Scenes in Scenes > GamePlay to see how other objects are set up using the command system in Level 1 and Level 2.

See the Components Documentation for a details of all the components and their parameters.

Quick Start

1. Introduction to Quick Start Guide

2. Making a New Scene

3. Adding a Moving Platform in 3D Game Kit

4. Opening a Door with a Command

5. Enemies in the 3D Game Kit

6. Damaging with Objects in 3D Game Kit

7. Decorating in 3D Game Kit

8. Teleporting the Player in 3D Game Kit

9. Having Fun with 3D Game Kit

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