Scripts as Behaviour Components

Variables and Functions

Conventions and Syntax

IF Statements

Loops

Scope and Access Modifiers

Awake and Start

Update and FixedUpdate

Vector Maths

Enabling and Disabling Components

Activating GameObjects

Translate and Rotate

Look At

Linear Interpolation

Destroy

GetButton and GetKey

GetAxis

OnMouseDown

GetComponent

DeltaTime

DataTypes

Classes

Instantiate

Arrays

Invoke

Enumerations

Switch Statements

Detecting Mouse Clicks

Time

This collection of tutorials is an excellent reference point for teachers or students who want to review the most important and foundational scripting concepts for developing with Unity. If you are unsure whether or not you understand a particular coding concept or if you want to make sure you have all your bases covered, reviewing the tutorials here can be very helpful. 

Before reviewing the tutorials here, it is recommended that you have completed at least one beginner project in Unity to provide more context, such as:

Learn about programming for game development, from the very beginning with these easy to follow video tutorials.

Beginner Scripting

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U_Beginner_16_GetAxis.mp4

How to "get axis" based input for your games in Unity and how these axes can be modified with the Input manager

This tutorial is included in the Beginner Scripting project.

Games

AI, ML Curricular Framework Resources 

Beginner Scripting (Acc-Sol)

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class AxisExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float range;
    public Text textOutput;
    
    
    void Update () 
    {
        float h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float xPos = h * range;
        
        transform.position = new Vector3(xPos, 2f, 0);
        textOutput.text = "Value Returned: " + h.ToString("F2");  
    }
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class AxisRawExample : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float range;
    public Text textOutput;
    
    
    void Update () 
    {
        float h = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float xPos = h * range;
        
        transform.position = new Vector3(xPos, 2f, 0);
        textOutput.text = "Value Returned: " + h.ToString("F2");  
    }
}


using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class DualAxisExample : MonoBehaviour 
{
    public Text horizontalValueDisplayText;
    public Text verticalValueDisplayText;
    public float hRange;
    public float vRange;
    
    void Update ()
    {
        float h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float v = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        float xPos = h * hRange;
        float yPos = v * vRange;
        
        transform.position = new Vector3(xPos, 0, vPos);
        horizontalValueDisplayText.text = h.ToString("F2");
        verticalValueDisplayText.text = v.ToString("F2");
    }
}

GetAxis

1. GetAxis

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