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7. Note that the
TextMesh
component in the inspector is a container for the
3DText specific parameters. Set the text to the name of our game Geography
Quest.
8. Set the
CharacterSize
to
0.5
and the
FontSize
to
21
to make the title ap-
pear with an appealing size and shape. Just as one might do with a word
processor, set the font style to bold for extra visual impact.
9. Name this 3DText object
textGeographyQuest
to keep the hierarchy easy
to read and maintain.
10. Now, we need a prompt for the user to click to start. Let's duplicate the previ-
ous GameObject by clicking on it and pressing
Ctr
+
D
.
11. Rename this object
textClickToContinue
. Set the text field of the
Tex-
tMesh
on this object to
New
.
12. Move the GameObject to (
-1.8
,
0.9
,
1.2
), and scale the font size down to
15
to place and scale the text appropriately.
13. Our menu is almost complete! Let's write a script to handle the mouse-click
event. Create a new script, and name it
MainMenuScript
. Attach this script
to the
PopupMainMenu
object.
14. This script will have two private member variables. One to store the main
Game
GameObject (the one that holds the
GameMgr
and
MissionMgr
classes) and one to hold the
GameMgr
script instance itself (attached to
Game
). We make these private because the object being referred to doesn't
need to change during the lifespan of the game, so finding it automatically
on startup is more robust. They can be configured as shown in the following
code:
private GameMgr gm;
Private GameObject GameObj;
15. Inside the
Start()
method, we will search for the object named
Game
. If it is
found, we store a reference to the
GameMgr
script instance attached to this
object as shown in the following code. Recall that the
Start()
method gets
invoked by the Unity engine for any class that inherits from
MonoBehavior
the first time it runs after instantiation:
GameObj = GameObject.Find("Game");
if (GameObj)
{
