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Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.
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Sinead Murphy is currently Data Analytics Manager for the Irish NGO Trocaire. She has over 25 years of computing experience, including freelance IT training and database consulting, university lecturing in mathematics, IT skills and programming at TU Dublin (Ireland) and Middlesex University (London). She is a published academic, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics, computing and data science. She is passionate about the use of IT for understanding and visualising data, and using that understanding to make meaningful differences in the world. She is currently exploring the use of Python and Unity for data analytics and interactive visualisations.
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Unity’s Third Person Character Controller assets

Many of the recipes in this chapter make use of Unity’s Third Person Character Controller starter project. We met this briefly in Chapter 4, Playing and Manipulating Sounds, and we’ll repeat those steps and take things a little further here.

Figure 9.1: The pyramid of prefab tunnels that we’ll make in this recipe

How to do it...

To work with Unity’s Third Person Character Controller project, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Unity 3D project.
  2. Open a web browser tab to the Unity Asset Store, by choosing Asset menu: Window | Asset Store.
  3. Search for the free Starter Assets Third Person Character Controller.
  4. Select the assets, and when viewing their details, click the Add to My Assets button.
  5. In the Unity Editor, open Package Manager to list your Asset Store assets by choosing menu: Window | Package Manager From the Packages dropdown choose My...
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Shaun Ferns

Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.
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Sinéad Murphy

Sinead Murphy is currently Data Analytics Manager for the Irish NGO Trocaire. She has over 25 years of computing experience, including freelance IT training and database consulting, university lecturing in mathematics, IT skills and programming at TU Dublin (Ireland) and Middlesex University (London). She is a published academic, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics, computing and data science. She is passionate about the use of IT for understanding and visualising data, and using that understanding to make meaningful differences in the world. She is currently exploring the use of Python and Unity for data analytics and interactive visualisations.
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