Introduction to Scripting
Introduction to Scripting
Let's get to know Unity a little better...
In previous tutorials, you added components to GameObjects to change their properties and behaviors. In addition to using the components provided in the Unity Editor, you can customize the properties and behaviors of GameObjects by writing custom scripts in the C# language.
In this tutorial, you will create a simple “Hello World” component and add it to a GameObject. You will see how you can use scripts to manipulate what appears in the Inspector window for any GameObject. Along the way, you will learn about the tools and windows used for programming in Unity.
Microsoft Visual Studios
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as Visual Studio and Rider, allow programmers to write and debug code as efficiently as possible.
IDEs support programming in a wide range of languages (e.g. C#, Java, Javascript, Python, etc.); Unity development is typically done in C# (pronounced “see sharp”) using Visual Studio.
It is technically possible to write code in a simple text document, but IDEs provide developers with a suite of tools to make programming easier. For example, most IDEs include error detection to highlight when something is coded incorrectly, a debugger to help locate the source of an error, syntax highlighting to make the code easier to read, and code completion to instantly fill out lines of code.
At the end of the day
The most important thing that you need to know is that the programming that allows to game to run and work correctly is written in a different program.
That program is Microsoft Visual Studios
Visual studios is a great program that allows us to code in a language called C# (the language of video games).