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3D Real-Time-Strategy (RTS) Game Tutorial Unity3D (C#).

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Part I: Building Placement
In this tutorial series, we will develop the RTS basics such as building placement, camera controls, unit controls, creating units etc. Lets start
with Building placement.
As you know from legends of RTSgames, some different buildings can be built.
Open Unity and create a new 3D project. Most of RTS games have a top camera. So, create a terrain, create a directional light and change camera
position for looking downward. You can add grass texture to terrain if you want. Also, you can use some building objects or just cubes for now. I
useda street package named Cartoon City by Razu Ahmed (http://bit.ly/1cmYnX2 ) that you can find out lots of objects. Add 2 buildings to the
scene and create 2 empty game objects as their parents. For each parent, add Collider and Rigidbody. Create prefabs and delete objects in scene.

First of all, we need a Building class which includes health, game object and name. Create a C# script named Building.
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public class Buildings{


public int health;
public string name;
public GameObject avatar;
public Buildings(int _health, string _name, GameObject _avatar){
health = _health;
name = _name;
avatar = _avatar;
}

Add Generic library because we are going to use list type.

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Now, create a list for game objects and a list for Building class objects.
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public List<Building> buildingList = new List<Building> ();


public Buildings newBuilding;
public GameObject[] buildings;

We are going to add 3D building objects manually. Create buildings according to these objects.
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void Start(){

for (int i = 0; i < buildings.Length; i ++) {


newBuilding = new Buildings (100, buildings[i].name, buildings[i] );
buildingList.Add(newBuilding);
}

Thats it. Our building class is ready. Now, create 3 C# scripts to check availability, place buildings and create GUI: Available, Placement,
Manager. Open Manager script.
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private Building buildingClass;


private bool isClickable;
void Start () {
buildingClass = GetComponent<Building> ();
isClickable = true;
}
public void SetClickable(bool w){
isClickable = w;
}
void OnGUI(){
for (int i = 0; i < buildingClass.buildings.Length; i ++) {
if (GUI.Button(new Rect(50 * 2 * i, 100 , 75, 30),
buildingClass.buildings[i].name) && isClickable){
isClickable = false;
}
}
}

This script gets names from Building class and creates buttons.
Open Available script.Add generic library for using lists.
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public List<Collider> colliders = new List<Collider> ();


private bool isSelected;
private Building buildingClass;
void Start () {
buildingClass = GetComponent<Building> ();
}
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider c){
if (c.tag == "Building") {
colliders.Add(c);
}
}
void OnTriggerExit(Collider c){
if (c.tag == "Building") {
colliders.Remove(c);
}
}
public void SetSelected(bool b){
isSelected = b;
}
void OnGUI(){
if (isSelected) {
GUI.Button(new Rect(100, 200, 100, 50), name);
}
}

Collider list keeps count of colliding that provides if it is available to place a building. Count increase if the new building collides any object that
has Building tag and count decrease if the new building exits from the collision. Now open Placement script.
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public LayerMask bMask;


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Transform currentBuilding;
Available available;
bool isPlaced;
Available availableX;
Building newBuilding;
Manager clickable;

void Update () {
Vector3 mPos = Input.mousePosition;

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mPos = new Vector3 (mPos.x, mPos.y, transform.position.y);
Vector3 pos = camera.ScreenToWorldPoint (mPos);

if (currentBuilding != null && !isPlaced) {


currentBuilding.position = new Vector3 (pos.x, 0, pos.z);

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) {
if (IsAvailable ()) {
isPlaced = true;
clickable = gameObject.GetComponent<Manager> ();
clickable.SetClickable(true);
}
}

}
else {
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){
RaycastHit hit = new RaycastHit();
Ray ray = new Ray(new Vector3(pos.x, 10, pos.z), Vector3.down);
if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, bMask)){
if(availableX != null){
availableX.SetSelected(false);
}
hit.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Available> ().SetSelected(true);
availableX = hit.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<Available> ();
}
else{
if(availableX != null){
availableX.SetSelected(false);
}
}
}
}

public void SetItem(GameObject g){


isPlaced = false;
currentBuilding = ((GameObject)Instantiate(g)).transform;
available = currentBuilding.GetComponent<Available> ();
}
bool IsAvailable(){
if (available.colliders.Count > 0) {
return false;
}
return true;
}

In this section, we assign the building position when it is instantiated by clicking the button via SetItem() function. Also, we get the function
when clicking on a building with ray. It is just like an invisible laser from camera to the downward. It returns something if it hits any object.
IsAvailable() checks if the new building collides anything. Open Manager script and edit it as seen below.
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private Building buildingClass;


private Placement placement;
private bool isClickable;
void Start () {
placement = GetComponent<Placement> ();
buildingClass = GetComponent<Building> ();
isClickable = true;
}
public void SetClickable(bool w){
isClickable = w;
}
void OnGUI(){
for (int i = 0; i < buildingClass.buildings.Length; i ++) {
if (GUI.Button(new Rect(50 * 2 * i, 100 , 75, 30),
buildingClass.buildings[i].name) && isClickable){
isClickable = false;
placement.SetItem(buildingClass.buildings[i]);

Now, attach Manager, Placement and Building to Main Camera and attach Available to each prefab. Do not forget to assign your prefabs. Also
you can add grid to your buildings. Create a Grid script and attach it to each prefab. For more information about Grid function, see Grid Tutorial.

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2 thoughts on 3D Real-Time-Strategy (RTS) Game Tutorial Unity3D


AliquidHacker

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June 8, 2015 at 12:24 pm

Any hope for part 2?

Mocha

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June 8, 2015 at 1:50 pm

Will be:)

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