Hey guys,
I am thinking of getting into Unity Game Development. I have used JavaScript in the past and keeping that in mind I would like to learn programming for Unity using UnityScript because the syntax is kind of similar. I have also worked with Java for which C# syntax would be similar but I would like to go with UnityScript. My question is Are there any detailed tutorial (Pdf or HTML) that are written and not visual for UnityScript that explains the stuff very well. Also according to you which one do you find easier C# or JavaScript?
I would say that Unity Script is easier than C#. I’m quite new to coding and for now i’m sticking to Unity Script but i’ve done some part of my game in C#, especially to get some components that i bought (written in C#) to run with my US scripts.C3 is not really harder than US, it’s just a bit different. Some says that C# is better but for the moment, on my project (a turnbased 4x game with a random generation of 200 planets, raycasting for ships , IA and more stuffs, with hundreds of thousands variables) Unity Script do the job well, my game is running like a charm at 70 FPS, taking 2 seconds on my comp to process turn. You can find tutorials on youtube or elsewhere on the net, there’s quite a bit. But the most usefull thing is the unity scripting reference database, wich you need to be friend with if you want to script.Also, if you encounter a problem, you can ask questions on this forum, u’ll usually get your answer quite fast with good results.
Java and c# are very similar, so you’d have an easy time with c#. I don’t think anybody will advocate using unityscript when there are more powerful and familiar languages unity can interpret. There’s reasons why hardly any tutorials use unityscript.
All the scripting tutorials on the Unity site have a js example even though they placed a c# icon on the scripting tutorial link. There are tons of Unity tutorials on you tube and third party unity related sites, you just have to search a little. Don’t forget the Unity forum search. The scripting reference is the best go to for me lol.
Most of the Unity books are written with Unity’s Javascript too.
I do. Unity-JS is as powerful as C# in Unity. You can make the very same game with all available languages, it will look the same, it will behave the same, run in the same speed etc. . And it will take you similar long to develop it. There is no reason not to use JS in Unity besides personal flavour. You can even mix the languages when you take care of some things.
If You know JavaScript then You can learn Unity’s Javascript even easier with the help of unity documentation. That’s why there are three available languages available at all. Unity is not a C# ide. It’s a game engine that can be used with three different languages.