Activity 4: Simple Score Counter

                Creating this Simple Score Counter is a bit complicated for beginners like me because it tackles new components in Unity, specifically, the UI Component where I can use different features like canvas, positioning, and animating, defining user interaction, and sizing layouts automatically. 

Components are functionality we can provide to our game objects, Specifically, a Camera Component, a GUILayer, a Flare Layer, and an Audio Listener.

 I also used Scripts in order to read input from our game objects it interacts. It also provides the physical behavior of objects like moving an object using a keyboard or mouse.

    First, We need to import our game objects to our assets which I created using Adobe Illustrator. Here I have the red ball, coins, bombs, and frame. 

        

        Then I created a Text component from UI where I clicked it on the hierarchy Tab. It will create a canvas with a child called Text.

     It is relatively large over the Main Camera but we will not move it together to the size of the main camera. Let's move the text box in the middle and change the text to "Score" from the inspector tab. Then I created a script for Score Text, this will now display our scores from the game.

            

Score Script

Next, I drag down all game objects from assets into the Scene. Just like the previous activity, the ball movement, coin, and moving bomb have the same behavior. But the difference is whenever we collide the red ball to the coin it will record a score, while when we hit the moving bomb it will decrease the score.  

                                                         Game Scene

    

Additionally, I made another script for the ball so that it will sense the coins and bomb whenever they touch. The name of the game objects must be the same inside our switch cases so they will recognize each case. Now the Destroy() method hides the object when it triggers a collision.

    

    

    Here are the characteristics of my coins and bomb.                        

                
                                                                       Coin Characteristic

Bomb Characteristic

                                                                Now my final output

Activity 3: Object Movement and Rotation

    

                     

               In this blog I will create a moving and rotating object. Just like on my recent blog, first  we must create project and select 2D Template for our Object Movement and Rotation Activity.

     

    

    After Creating the template you will proceed to our application workspace where we can create our game. Then, we must import our objects like Red ball, Brick, platform, and frame which I created using Adobe Illustrator. 

   

Now that we have all we need. On my red ball and Frame, the settings were the same last time. While in my bricks and platform we only use box collider components. I need to make the bricks move on its own and the platform to rotate 360. We use scripting to create their movements.

This is our code for the bricks. The properties we set in order to make it move up-down on the first brick and from upper left to downright.

  

                                                   up down

                        

                                upper left to downright

                        

For our platform rotation movement, I used degreespersec and Time.deltaTime, this procedure will calculate how fast our rotation will be then the transform.localRotation.eulerAngles.Z holds the Z position while the Quaternion.Euler is the method that returns the rotation.

                

       

                                   Platform Object Properties

                     

This is the final result of the Object Movement and Rotation I created.