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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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Implementing movement

Almost every object in a game moves one way or another: the player character with the keyboard, enemies through AI, bullets that simply move forward, and so on. There are several ways of moving objects in Unity, so we will start with the simplest one— that is, using the Transform component.

In this section, we will examine the following movement concepts:

  • Moving objects through Transform
  • Using input
  • Understanding Delta Time

First, we will explore how to access the Transform component in our script to drive player movement, later applying movement based on the player’s keyboard input. Finally, we will explore the concept of deltatime to make sure that movement speeds are consistent on every computer. We will start learning about the Transform API to make a simple movement script.

Moving objects through Transform

Transform is the component that holds the translation, rotation, and scale of an object, so...

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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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