The next certification requirement is to create a Moving Platform prefab. Fortunately, I’ve implemented this before:

I simply adapted it in the certification. I updated it a bit to use Vector3.Distance() instead of exact points when it reaches destination because sometimes the platform gets stuck:

Now, the Moving Platform is prefabbed by dragging the component to the Project Assets:

The next requirement is to create a collectable. This has been created before in:

For now, my collectable is a Battery:

It uses a Delegate to communicate that the Battery collided with the Player:

The next requirement if to create a functional lift system and the switch between floors have a 5 second delay at each level.

The implementation of this have been done with primitive objects:

I can use the same code, with different assets:

To be honest, blocking with primitives is the…

The first item in the certification is to make modular prefab for the platforms. Prefabs are very useful to re-use items that have already been created. It can also be used as a template where updating the template updates all instances using the prefab.

As of now, I have a bridge, a platform and a platform with a ledge:

There’s no behavior for the bridge and platform. But for the platform with a ledge it has additional components such as the grab position collider, climb and stand position.

This is just a draft, but I added platforms I created in Blender and imported them in Unity. Here’s the Blender interface:

Here’s how it looks like when imported to Unity:

fI’ve been a member of GDHQ for a long time and I’ve taken this course earlier in the year. This is what I was able to accomplish though it is not complete.

As you can see above that it’s not that polished and jumping is so unrealistic. I think I used root animation here as well.

Now, I would like to see how I will approach the same certification project while working on this coaching program. The major advantage of the coaching program is the requirement to document your progress. Although, the speed of development is slower this way, you get to understand Unity more. I’m also fond of Blender now so I’m hoping that I can apply what I’ve learned here as I will use this as one of my portfolio projects.

As per the last article, I’ve implemented grabbing a ledge. It’s now time to be able to climb up and stand on the platform. We need the climb up animation which we can get from mixamo.com:

Now that the Player can run and perform a running jump, we would like it to grab a ledge if it could reach it. First, we need to get a hanging idle animation which again we can get from Mixamo.com: