Making an RTS game #9: Implementing character units and skills (Unity/C#)

On with our RTS project! Today, we’ll add the character and skill systems…

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Last week, we improved our selection feature and, in particular, we added an info panel for the currently selected unit. Now, it’s time to populate this panel with skills and use it to create even more units!

For now, we only have building units — but remember that we prepared our class hierarchy in previous tutorials so it is easy to add character units. Today, we’ll add these character units, plus we’ll start a basic skills system that allows us to produce one of those character units in our House building.

Implementing character units

General info about character units

As we discussed a few weeks ago, characters are one of the possible unit subtypes. So just like we used inheritance and polymorphism for buildings, we’re going to do the same for characters.