Making an RTS game #10: Moving the camera (Unity/C#)

Today, let’s continue our RTS project by adding some camera movement!

⬅️ Tutorial #9: Implementing character units and skills | TOC | Interlude #2: Refactoring the event system ➡️

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In this episode, we’ll talk a bit about graphical projections and camera set up, and then we’ll do some user input handling and reuse the notion of coroutines we saw last time.

At the end of this tutorial, we’ll be able to move the camera with the mouse or the keyboard, and to zoom in and out:

Note: the trees and rocks in this movie and the following screenshots are free assets I found in the Unity Asset store, taken from the low-poly tree and rock packages by BrokenVector.

Graphical projections: perspective, orthographic, axonometric…

Video games are displayed on 2D screens. So, as they started to put more and more 3D objects in our games…