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Entities in action: Tanks

Tutorial

Intermediate

+10 XP

30 Mins

(91)

Overview

Summary

In this tutorial, you'll put your new knowledge of jobs and entities into action in a sample project that will demonstrate how to implement common features of games. Your objective is to spawn moving tanks that shoot cannonballs from a spinning turret. Tanks are destroyed when hit by a cannonball. The player controls the movement of one tank.
By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to do the following:
Make an entity move randomly using code.
Spawn entities from a prefab using code.
Control the behavior of spawned entities using code.
Add a user input system to an entities project.

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tanks_tutorial.zip

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Last updated: October 28, 2024

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