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David Cantón Nadales
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David Cantón Nadales

David Cantón Nadales, software engineer from Seville, Spain, with more than 15 years of experience. He is currently a Technical Leader at Grupo Viajes El Corte Inglés, a leading travel company in Europe. He has done a multitude of projects and video games with Unity, VR/AR with Oculus, Hololens, HTC Vive, DayDream and LeapMotion. He was ambassador of the Samsung community "Samsung Dev Spain", and organizer of "Google Developers Group Sevilla". He led more than 100 projects throughout his career. As a social entrepreneur stands out Grita, a social network that emerged during the confinement of COVID-19 that allowed to talk to other people and help each other psychologically. In 2022 he won the Top Developers Awards organized by Samsung.
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Placing the player

If you remember when we designed the initial scene in Chapter 4, Preparing Our Home Sweet Home: Part 2, we placed the Prefab with the player in the scene, and when we pressed Play, we took the perspective of the player so we could move around.

Our project will become multiplayer from Chapter 9, Turning Our World into a Multiplayer Room, onward, so we will progressively make adjustments to the current configuration to reach that goal. The way in which we currently instantiate the player would not be useful in the future in a multiplayer project, as there is only one instance of the Prefab player in the scene; it is fixed, and everyone who connects will use the same player. Crazy, right?

That’s why in this final section, we will create a dynamic instancing system. Every time a player logs in and appears in the main scene, they will do so with a new Prefab player clone:

  1. First of all, save the current changes. Then, we need to go back to MainScene...
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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837631735

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David Cantón Nadales

David Cantón Nadales, software engineer from Seville, Spain, with more than 15 years of experience. He is currently a Technical Leader at Grupo Viajes El Corte Inglés, a leading travel company in Europe. He has done a multitude of projects and video games with Unity, VR/AR with Oculus, Hololens, HTC Vive, DayDream and LeapMotion. He was ambassador of the Samsung community "Samsung Dev Spain", and organizer of "Google Developers Group Sevilla". He led more than 100 projects throughout his career. As a social entrepreneur stands out Grita, a social network that emerged during the confinement of COVID-19 that allowed to talk to other people and help each other psychologically. In 2022 he won the Top Developers Awards organized by Samsung.
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