Objective: To create a Minimap feature for my 3D Pacman game in Unity. Currently I am partaking in a Game Dev challenge, and this particular challenge involves taking a classic game and putting a twist on it. My idea was to recreate Pac Man but in a 3D first person…

Objective: Part 08 of setting up floating combat text in Unity will look at building and utilising an Object Pool design pattern for optimisation. We are on the final stage of this feature, which means we can tidy it up a bit to add some more optimisation. Currently we are…

Objective: Part 07 of setting up floating combat text in Unity will look at building functionality for a Critical Hit modifier. Currently the project is only set up for what we call ‘Normal Hits’, where by when the player shoots they will only deal damage between a minimum and maximum…

Objective: Part 06 of setting up floating combat text in Unity will look at fixing a TextMeshPro Text overlay issue. As seen above, currently when my enemy moves behind a pillar, the damage text stays behind it and we can’t see it. I want the player to always be able to see the text. Luckily, this is a very simple issue to solve and it just means that we need to adjust the Shader on the Text GameObject.

Objective: Part 05 of setting up floating combat text for your project in Unity will look at making the text fade in/out. Making Adjustments to the Color Similar to how we have setup our scale and height changes, let’s utilise the alpha of the color channel with an AnimationCurve: To start with let’s work on…

Objective: Part 04 of setting up floating combat text in Unity will look at making scaling adjustments, including critical hits. Moving on from the previous article where we looked at moving the text upwards using an AnimationCurve, we are now going to look at changing the scale using the…

Objective: Part 03 of setting up floating combat text in Unity will look at moving the text upwards utilising an Animation Curve. Making the Text Prefabs Float Up the Screen Using an Animation Curve This is where the fun really begins and you get to use your imagination as to how you want the text to be visually appealing. There could be…

Objective: Part 02 of setting up floating combat text in Unity which looks at bringing randomness to the instantiation position and changing the color of the text. Giving the Instantiation Position More Randomness Back in our ‘FloatingCombatTextPopUp’ script, we have been instantiating it at the exact same location directly by passing into the parameter — Vector3.zero…

Objective: To show how I setup floating combat text in my project utilising Unity. One thing I have always wanted to learn is how to create visually appealing floating combat text, and this is exactly what this series of articles is going to help you setup! Step 1 — Import TextMeshPro We can install this…