Technical Terms

Question 1

fly through mode

Answer 1

Hold down right click and use WASDQE to navigate your game

Question 2

perspective mode

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Real life view, gives a sense of depth

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orthogonal mode

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A 2-dimensional view

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transform component

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Defines the position of the object in space, the rotation, and scale

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surface snapping

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Using control + shift snap an object to a surface

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vertex snapping

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Pressing v snaps an object’s vertex to another vertex

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left-handed coordinate system

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The x-axis goes left, the y-axis goes up, and the z-axis goes back and forth

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vertices

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Points in space

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edges

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Connect two vertices to each other

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faces

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Is made when multiple vertices and edges connect to each other

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primitives (3D)

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The basic shapes (cube, sphere, cylinder)

Question 12

keyboard shortcut used to rename a GameObject

Answer 12

F2

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Shaders

Answer 13

Scripts that describe the color of each pixel

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Textures

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An image

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Materials

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Defines how a surface will be rendered

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Start() Method

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Used for initialization

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MonoBehavior class

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Allows you use Unity’s method

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variable

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Allow you to store and retrieve information

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implicit conversion

Answer 19

C# does the conversion for you

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explicit conversion

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Manually converting

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concatenate

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Using ‘+’ to join different strings

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class

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a blueprint created to define an object

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member variables

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variables used to define an object

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access modifier

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determines what can access variables

Question 25

encapsulation

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if public anything can access it, if private they can only be accessed through a method

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object

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instance of a class

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method arguments

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values that are passed to a parameter

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method parameters

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used to pass values or variable references to methods

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pseudocode

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writing code in English statements

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localScale

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scale of the transform relative to the parent.

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Collider

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define the shape of an object for the purposes of physical collisions

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vector

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has magnitude and direction

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scaling a vector

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Vector(3,4,5) would sen it right 3 points, up 4 poins, and forward 5 points

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vector's magnitude

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returns the length of a vector

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unitary vector

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has a vector of 1

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normalized vector

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makes the vector have a magnitude of 1

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Vector class

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Vector3(x,y,z)

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refactoring code

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Cleaning and organizing code

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Update() method

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updates the game every frame

Question 40

Game Design Document (GDD)

Answer 40

Short document that describes the main concept of your game

Question 41

speed, distance, and time formula

Answer 41

The triangles will help you remember these 3 rules: Distance = Speed x Time

Question 42

Time.deltaTime

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The time in seconds it took to complete the last frame (Read Only)

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Transform.Rotate

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Applies a rotation of zAngle degrees around the z axis, xAngle degrees around the x axis, and yAngle degrees around the y axis (in that order)

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Prefab

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A way to save a GameObject with all of its properties

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Ternary Operator

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Condensed way of writing an if-else statement

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Input (Unity class)

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Used to read axes

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Horizontal Axis (Input Manager)

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Accessed by the left and right keys

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Vertical Axis (Input Manager)

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Accessed by the up and down keys

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Input.GetAxis() method

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Returns the value of the virtual axis identified by axisName

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Rigidbody class

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enables your GameObjects to act under the control of physics

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GetComponent

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Returns the component of Type type if the game object has one attached, null if it doesn't

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FixedUpdate() method

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This function is called every fixed framerate frame, if the MonoBehaviour is enabled, should be used when dealing with RigidBody

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Rigidbody.AddForce()

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Force is applied continuously along the direction of the force vector

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Collider class

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A base class of all colliders

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Physics.Raycast()

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Casts a ray, from point origin, in direction direction, of length maxDistance, against all colliders in the scene

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Static

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A non-moving object

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Kinematic

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Forces, collisions or joints will not affect the rigidbody anymore