Unity 2017 - Character gear and weapon use

Name: Unity 2017 - Character gear and weapon use
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Complete video training on how to build a weapon and gear system to pickup items and equip them on characters. With code

Created byYohann Taieb

Last updated 7/2019

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

work with Unity3D interface and monoDevelop programming interface
use character with rigging system
create sequences of life-like animations
setup characters to allow weapon and gear equipping
pickup items and equip them on

Course content

7 sections • 39 lectures • 3h 57m total length

Course and instructor overview2:25
Get to know your instructor and a course overview.
Introduction4:54
Note: download the project files from the BONUS lecture at this end of this course
Create prefabs for the equipment items13:26
In this lecture, you will learn how to create prefabs for the equipment items such as swords, shields, shoulder pads and helmets.
Right and left shoulders and wearing gear6:23
In this lecture, you will learn how to create the prefabs for the right and left shoulder pads

Adding components to the player character2:38
In this lecture, you will learn how to add components to the player character
Programming the character movement9:35
In this lecture, you will learn how to program the character movement
Character animator8:51
In this lecture, you will learn how to setup a character animator to use for swapping animations.
Tweaking walk animation1:52
In this lecture, you will learn how to tweak the walk animation
Strafe sideways animations5:17
In this lecture, you will learn how to make the character strafe left and right
Attack animation9:09
In this lecture, you will learn how to trigger the attack animation.

Understanding the character skeleton1:58
In this lecture, you will learn how to understand the character skeleton architecture design
Equipping the weapon (part 1)8:59
In this lecture, you will learn how to equip the weapon (part 1)
Equipping weapon offset (part 2)3:21
In this lecture, you will learn how to equip weapons (part 2)
Equipping a shield10:46
In this lecture, you will learn how to equip a shield
Equipping helmets and hats7:04
In this lecture, you will learn how to equip helmets and hats
Equipping shoulder gear9:06
In this lecture, you will learn how too equip shoulder padgear
Loading gear and weapons from resources4:57
In this lecture, you will learn how to load weapons and gear items from the resources

Exercise 1 - buckle prefabs0:29
The best way to learn is to do the exercises on your own
Solution to exercise - buckle prefabs6:20
This lecture has the answer of the exercise 1
Exercise 2 - Creating more gear prefabs9:27
In the exercise 2, you are asked to create gear prefabs on your own.
Exercise 3 - New pair of shoulder prefabs2:50
Exercise 3: Create a new pair of shoulder pad prefab on your own. Solution included.

Picking up the sword item6:51
In this lecture, you will learn how to pickup the sword item
Programming the item pickup8:46
In this lecture, you will learn how to program the item pickup logic script.
Fixing the position and rotation of equipped weapon5:18
In this lecture, you will learn how to fix the position and rotation of the items that are getting equipped on the main character
Add text names on top of item to pickup4:05
In this lecture, you will learn how to add text names on top of items to pickup
Text LookAt method for orthographic and perspective cameras2:34
In this lecture, you will learn how to make the item names face the camera at all times.
Programming logic to pickup correct item type6:27
In this lecture, you will learn how to program the logic to pickup items of the correct type, right hand, left hand, shoulders, helmets and so on.
Picking up the buckle item6:02
In this lecture, you will learn how to pickup the buckle item
Logic to pickup shoulder pads6:11
In this lecture, you will learn how to program the logic to pickup shoulder pads and equip them
Removing equipped item before equipping a new one4:18
In this lecture, you will learn how to remove equipped item before a new one takes its place.
Creating more pickup helmets and buckles8:35
In this lecture, you will learn how to create more helmets and buckles to pick up.
Building sword and shield pickup items10:55
In this lecture, you will learn how to build swords and shields that are ready to get picked up.
Quality of items and name tag colors epic, standard and legendary items8:13
In this lecture, you will learn how to display different name colors to represent the quality of the item (epic, legendary, standard, and superior)
Having 2 characters with 2 unique gears equipped4:04
In this lecture, you will learn how to display 2 different characters, wearing 2 different gear sets.
Chaining attacks12:50
in this lecture, you will learn how to chain attack to make amazing animations for fighting

Requirements

have Unity3D installed on their computer (linux, PC or MAC)

Description

Important: all software used are FREE to download and use on PC and MAC computers (no need to pay, cheers!)

In this course you will learn how to make a system to equip weapons and gears to characters.

Why would you want to learn how to build a system to equip items on characters? Because it's a very efficient way to create an engaging game where players love to explore the world you create to find legendary items and magic weapons and make their character more powerful and unique.

All the great games out there are using this system, look at Zelda, or World of Warcraft or MineCraft or even Star Wars.

This course can be taken by anyone even if you've got no programming skills or very little

This course is meant for non-artists, meaning you don't have to be an artist to be able to use 3D pixel art graphics.

You will learn how to use free tools to make an amazing game from scratch as I will show you every single line of programming and how to use Unity 3D to be able to make professional games all by yourself quickly and without having to spend money.

You will learn how to download and install unity 3D on Mac, PC or Linux.

Then we will get to create a project, add levels and add characters to it. You will also learn how to animate your characters with life-like animations. You will learn how to create items such as swords, shields, shoulder pads and helmets and learn how to have your character pick them up and equip them on.

Now, this course is meant to make things this super easy for you. All the steps are shown to you in the video lectures, so you cant possibly miss a step.

The skills you will learn in this course can be applied to so many more projects as they are the core foundations of any professional video games. Invest in yourself by joining this course now

What are you waiting for. Let's get started.

Who this course is for:

students
gamers
mmo lovers
graphic designers
web developers
game developers
indie
computer engineer
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Unity 2017 - Character gear and weapon use

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Course content

Setup4 lectures • 27min

Main character setup6 lectures • 37min

Wearing gear and weapons7 lectures • 46min

Exercises4 lectures • 19min

Adding more characters3 lectures • 13min

Picking up items and equipping them14 lectures • 1hr 35min

Conclusion1 lecture0

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