Making a RTS game #8: Boosting our selection feature (Unity/C#)
Let’s continue our RTS game project: today, we’ll improve our selection mechanism!
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9 min readApr 29, 2021
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A couple of weeks ago, we improved our UI and displayed more info on the buildings (with an info panel and healthbars).
Today, we’re going to continue on this topic and improve our selection mechanism — we’ll do three things:
- display the list of currently selected units: in order to better remember what we’ve selected, even if it is off-screen, let’s list the units at the bottom of the screen as little blocks!
- create selection groups: this is a nice way of switching between your units that many RTS provide
- show up info on the active selected unit: it would be nice to have some data and specific actions for a unit when we select unit
