Bonus Features 1 - Share your Work

This tutorial is entirely optional. If you are not interested in this extra challenge, simply scroll to the bottom of the page above the Submission Gallery and select "Skip submission and continue". You can still successfully complete the course without attempting any of these bonus features.

This tutorial outlines four potential bonus features for the Driving Simulation Prototype at varying levels of difficulty:

• Easy: Obstacle Pyramids
• Medium: Oncoming vehicles
• Hard: Camera switcher
• Expert: Local multiplayer

Here’s what the prototype could look like if you complete all four features:

The Easy and Medium features can probably be completed entirely with skills from this course, but the Hard and Expert features will require some additional research.

Since this is optional, you can attempt none of them, all of them, or any combination in between.

You can come up with your own original bonus features as well!

Then, at the end of this tutorial, there is an opportunity to share your work.

We highly recommend that you attempt these using relentless Googling and troubleshooting, but if you do get completely stuck, there are hints and step-by-step solutions available below.

Good luck!

Create stacks, piles, or pyramids of obstacles for the vehicle to drive through.

These will be more satisfying for the player to crash into compared with single objects.

Add a couple of other cars that are automatically driving down the road in the opposite direction, which the player also has to avoid.

This will make the experience much more challenging, since the player will now be forced to think quickly, rather than taking as much time as they need.

Allow the player to press a key on the keyboard to switch camera views.

Ideally, the same key would toggle between two views, one above and behind the vehicle, and the other from the perspective of the driver’s seat.

Transform this into a “local multiplayer” split-screen game with two cars, where one player’s car is controlled by WASD and the other is controlled by the arrow keys.

This would add a completely new competitive dimension to the prototype.

Hints:

• Easy: Obstacle pyramids
  • Remember to use a Rigidbody!
• Medium: Oncoming vehicles
  • Try using transform.Translate to move the other vehicles.
• Hard: Camera switcher
  • Add a second camera and then use a key press to enable and disable it.
• Expert: Local multiplayer
  • You will need to edit the Input Manager and the Camera’s Viewport Rect Width property.

Solution walkthrough

If you are really stuck, download the step-by-step solution walkthrough.

Note that there are likely many ways to implement these features - this is only one suggestion.

Have you implemented any of these bonus features? Have you added any new, unique features? Have you applied these new features to another project?

We would love to see what you've created!

Please take a screenshot of your project or do a screen-recording walking us through it, then post it here to share what you’ve made.

We highly recommend that you comment on at least one other creator's submission. What do you like about the project? What would be a cool new feature they might consider adding?