Unity3D基本术语

Glossary

Aliasing—Jagged edges that appear in the rendering of polygon edges.

Alpha blending—Blending of transparent to non-transparent areas in materials.

Alpha value—The visibility of a renderer, often used to fade out a part of the game.

Alpha version—A build you may distribute amongst developers or early

trusted partners.

Animation Wrap Mode—The mode in which the animation is played back, for

example, looping, once, ping pong (back and forth).

Anisotropic ltering—A method that improves the quality rendering of textures

Bake (noun)—A nished lightmap, often used to refer to the nished texture or look

of the environment.

Bake (verb)—The process of saving the lighting of a scene to a texture to optimize

performance, aka lightmapping.

Batching—The act of grouping computing tasks together.

Behaviors—Scripts that you write to dene how an object responds to

certain situations.

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Beta version—A build that is more feature complete, that you are likely to release to

Bottlenecks—Points in a piece of software or hardware that slow down performance

by being slower than other elements in the system.

Bug—A problem in your script or game's design that needs xing!

Build—A nished or test version of the game exported by Unity.

Build settings—The panel in Unity used to choose the platform to build to, and

some additional settings for building.

C#—A scripting language used by Unity. See also JavaScript and Boo.

Caffeine—A substance useful around deadlines in your development!

Camera—Your viewpoint on the world. More than one camera can be used in a

scene for rendering additional details.

camera.

Clones—Duplicates of a game object or a prefab.

Code embedding—Taking code, such as HTML, and placing it inside another page,

such as you might need to do when embedding a YouTube video in another website.

Collider—Colliders give mesh objects in Unity a physical presence, so they can

interact with other objects.

Collider scaling—The act of redening the boundary of a collider, in order to alter

where collisions with it occur.

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Collision detection—The act of detecting when two object's colliders bump into one

Comments—Code that has been disabled from being executed within a script.

is! See Window | Console or use Ctrl + Shift + C (PC)/Command + Shift + C (Mac) to

Co-routine—A function that may run in parallel to current functions to perform

other instructions outside of the current execution order.

Crosshair—A texture used to render 'sights' onscreen, as a way of helping the player

aim in shooter games.

CSS—Cascading Style Sheets; these are used to style web pages in web design.

Cubemap—A material made up of six textures sometimes used to create effects such

as skyboxes.

Cut-scene—Part of a game that interrupts play to present a piece of narrative or view

of a part of the environment (generally something that a character cannot currently

see), to help the game progress.

Damping—A blanket term used to describe the phenomenon of the value getting

graphical polish is added.