The next certification requirement is to create a Moving Platform prefab. Fortunately, I’ve implemented this before: Creating a moving platform in Unity To create a moving platform, you will need to provide the position of the origin and destination which you can provide…gamedevbox.medium.com Fixing Player moving with platform If you noticed in the previous article that as soon as you stop moving the Player in a moving platform, it will drop…gamedevbox.medium.com

The next requirement is to create a collectable. This has been created before in: Creating collectibles If you have implemented it before in one game, you probably will do it in another game. In the past, I created a power…gamedevbox.medium.com 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: Riding the elevator in Unity Now, it’s time for the player take a ride on the elevator. He needs to press the panel again to up. However, how can…gamedevbox.medium.com Removing Jitter from using the Elevator in Unity Similar to what has been implemented in the moving platform, to remove the jitter on the player using the elevator, you…gamedevbox.medium.com

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:

Right now, our Player runs and jumps backward when moving left. It’s time to make the character face the other direction first before performing those actions. Luckily, it all depends on value of getting horizontal input. When left is pressed, the value is -1. When it’s idle, it’s 0. When right is pressed, the value is 1. From here you can just flip the y axis of transform.localEulerAngles to flip the character as well.