The code for my series of tutorials on how to make a real-time stategy (RTS) game in the well-know Unity game engine (with C# scripting)!
The code for my series of tutorials on how to make a real-time stategy (RTS) game in the well-know Unity game engine (with C# scripting)!
Mina Pêcheux • March 2021 - March 2022
⚠️⚠️ In particular, this series and the repo was made using Unity 2020+ and 2021+ - it is not (and probably won't ever be) compatible with the new Unity 6 core system, or the more recent rendering pipelines, sorry! ⚠️⚠️
This repository contains the code for my on-going series of tutorials on how to make a real-time strategy (RTS) game in the well-known game engine Unity! Throughout this series of tutorials, I explore C# scripting for games, GUI building, event systems, behavior trees, sound optimization...
→ For more info, see Tutorial #41
You can find the list of all tutorials on Medium, or right below:
Tutorial #1: Placing buildings
Tutorial #2: Adding a very basic UI
Tutorial #3: Setting up in-game resources
Interlude #1: Introducing an event system
Tutorial #4: Selecting units
Tutorial #5: Transforming our data into Scriptable Objects
Tutorial #6: Improving the UI
Tutorial #7: Polymorphism, take 2!
Tutorial #8: Boosting our selection feature
Tutorial #9: Implementing character units and skills
Tutorial #10: Moving the camera
Interlude #2: Refactoring the event system
Tutorial #11: Adding a day-and-night cycle
Tutorial #12: Moving Character Units
Tutorial #13: Adding a minimap and fog of war 1/3
Tutorial #14: Adding a minimap and fog of war 2/3
Tutorial #15: Adding a minimap and fog of war 3/3
Tutorial #16: Introducing a sound system 1/2
Tutorial #17: Introducing a sound system 2/2
Tutorial #18: Preparing our game parameters
Tutorial #19: Displaying our in-game settings!
Tutorial #20: Saving the player’s data properly
Tutorial #21: Adding players and unit ownership
Tutorial #22: Producing some resources with our buildings
Tutorial #23: Implementing behaviour trees for our units 1/3
Tutorial #24: Implementing behaviour trees for our units 2/3
Tutorial #25: Implementing behaviour trees for our units 3/3
Tutorial #26: Levelling up our units! 1/2
Tutorial #27: Levelling up our units! 2/2
Tutorial #28: Adding some shortcuts
Tutorial #29: Improving our players system
Tutorial #30: Refactoring our save/load system with binary serialisation 1/2
Tutorial #31: Refactoring our save/load system with binary serialisation 2/2
Tutorial #32: Creating a debug console
Tutorial #33: Using Unity’s terrain tools
Tutorial #34: Improving unit navigation & adding unit formations 1/2
Tutorial #35: Improving unit navigation & adding unit formations 2/2
Tutorial #36: Using workers to construct buildings 1/3
Tutorial #37: Using workers to construct buildings 2/3
Tutorial #38: Using workers to construct buildings 3/3
Tutorial #39: Boosting our game scene
Tutorial #40: Fixing our minimap
Tutorial #41: Preparing for a main menu...
Tutorial #42: Designing our main menu 1/2
Tutorial #43: Designing our main menu 2/2
Tutorial #44: Importing models & animating our characters 1/2
Tutorial #45: Importing models & animating our characters 2/2
Tutorial #46: Saving our game scene data...
Tutorial #47: ... and loading back our game scene data!
Interlude #3: Showing our updated minimaps in the menu
Tutorial #48: Various fixes, improvements and clean-ups
Tutorial #49: Optimisation tips & tricks
Interlude #4: Improving the healthbars
Tutorial #50: Implementing a technology tree 1/3
Tutorial #51: Implementing a technology tree 2/3
Tutorial #52: Implementing a technology tree 3/3
Article #53: Final words, thanks… and an ebook!
The project was written in Unity 2020.3. This implies that, when loading it up with different recent versions of Unity, you'll need to "upgrade" the project. This usually goes without a hitch, but there is for now 2 bugs that have been spotted by the followers and I:
incorrect lighting: upgrading to some Unity 2020+ might lead to some strange lighting of the scene (because of pipeline render defaults and lighting settings changes). To get a similar lighting to the original project, make sure that you remove all baked lighting data, that all your (directional) lights are set to "Realtime" and that you ignore the environment lighting.
To do so, open the Window > Rendering > Lighting panel, go to the "Environment" tab, and set the "Intensity Multiplier" variable to 0 both in the Environment Lighting and Environment Reflections sections.
FOV shader bug (thanks to @Oarcinae): upgrading to Unity 2019.4 might lead to unexpected behaviour for the FOV shader (because of pipeline render defaults changes); to fix the issue, you can try modifying the AlphaProjection.shader and comment out the line: #pragma exclude_renderers d3d11 gles (still an open issue #2, any help is welcome )
No open issues yet, or sync has not completed.