Choosing between different weapon prefabs at runtime
Lets say we have a player with three weapon slots, and a whole lot of weapon options in the game, and each one fires/works quite differently. Naturally, we give each weapon a script. The player has 3...
View ArticleAssigning prefabs to player script properties at runtime
The player object has a script attached to it which contain 3 public variables, representing three different weapons the player can use. The weapons are many different prefabs which will constantly...
View ArticleShooting a projectile forward in 3d space
If I have a cube facing a random direction, how can I make it shoot a projectile in it's "forward" direction?
View ArticleSpawning an object on the right side of another object
How would I go about getting the right (or left,top,bottom) side of an object, so I can create/place an object using those coordinates? The trick is this needs to work regardless of the object's...
View ArticleArcade Physics and colliders
I'm doing a top down space shooter type game, and I need the player to react to everything in different ways.For walls, collide and stop movement (unity handles this well with a primitive collider for...
View ArticleRestricting movement on an axis from physics
I want enemies and objects to not move on the y-axis on account of physics, but I want to still be able to move them at will, such as in their update method. So I may want an enemy to move up and down...
View ArticleScrolling camera in Shoot 'em up
Alright, this has been bugging me for a while. In a platformer, a scrolling camera is easy to implement, just have the camera slowly move to the left(or right) and force the player within the camera's...
View ArticleCollision while rotating around an object
While rotating an object around another, I have noticed the rotating object(which is using a Character Controller) does not collide with objects. I can only assume this is because the physics system is...
View ArticlePreventing player from moving out of Camera Viewport
I thought I had this figured out, just use ViewportToWorldPoint to get the world coordinates of the edges of the screen, then compare the player's position to these points and move him if necessary (...
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Getting position where raycast goes offscreen
Is it possible to fire a raycast in a direction, then get the position when the raycast hit the edge of the screen in world coordinates? For example - Let's say this is a 2d game and the black circle...
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How to create "soap bubble" graphic effect?
Some reference pics :And more reflective:Any ideas? My initial thought was particles, but it seems they would be too detailed and involved for a particle renderer. Would it be better to use a mesh with...
View ArticlePC Games determining graphic settings upon initial run
When a player runs most PC games for the first time, the graphic settings are automatically set for him, according to a rough estimate of what his computer can handle. So if his computer is high end,...
View ArticleIs it necessary to use multiple materials when I only want to change one part...
If a model has two colors and I only want to change the tint of one color while leaving the other color completely unaffected, do I have to use two materials - one for each color? I know that using...
View ArticleToony Lighted shader only partially affected by light
The default "toony-lighted" shader in Unity is great, but the problem is that objects are either entirely affected by the light, or not affected at all when they are not in the light's direct area.Is...
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Finding difference between gameObject's x coordinate according to one...
Okay, forgive the crude illustration, but it's the best way to demonstrate my problem:The black boxes are gameObjects, and the red dots are their transform's origin. Likewise the arrows demonstrate...
View ArticleGetting a reference to a class created in a different gameObject (Javascript)
In a script in Object A I do the following:var prefab : GameObject; var myObj : CustomGameObject; var temp : GameObject = Instantiate (prefab, transform.position , transform.rotation); We'll call the...
View ArticleHoming Missiles
How can you do homing missiles like in this video?I've tried the code from the SmoothLookAt script, but it sends the missiles in the up or down direction when I would like them to be constrained to one...
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Indirect Missile Path
Okay my last question didn't get exactly the answer I was looking for, so I'm going to be more specific. I want to have a projectile that travels towards a given target point that may or not be...
View ArticleRestricting movement to one plane, but smoothly switching what plane that is
I feel like this has been answered before, but I can't find it anywhere.I know how to restrict movement for a 2.5d platformer, but how can you make so that at certain points the plane of movement...
View ArticleDirection of rotation when using Quaternion.Slerp
Given two quaternions how can you find the direction(right or left)an object would rotate when using Quaternion.Slerp?
View ArticleAudiosurf style audio analysis (unity 3.5)
I want to be able to analyze music before actually playing it similarly to what the game Audiosurf does. This is necessary in order to build levels and such based on the music data. To my knowledge...
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