Day 10
Today’s focus was on developing my game. As you read in my last post, I started to develop the triple shot power up. Today I finalized the process. Though it’s been a lot of work — literally it’s been: eat sleep, code; I feel really good that my game project is coming along.
Animate the Triple Shot Powerup: Firstly, go to Windows, scroll down and click ‘animation’. A window will pop up that I then docked next to the console. Within the animation window, I created an animator and an animation. I then selected the gameObject I wanted to create an animation for in the hierarchy. On the animation window, I clicked the record button. Then I went to the Triple Shot sprite folder, selected all the power up sprites and dragged them into the animation recording area.
Spawning Routine for Triple Shot: First I created an IEnumeratorSpawnPowerupRoutine() followed by a while(_stopSpawning==false). Setting it to false will auto clean once the player dies. Next I needed to define the random spawn for triple shot within the while() loop {}, i.e.
To spawn in the power up, create a private GameObject_tripleShotPowerupPrefab; — Once that’s been created Instantiate the gameObject at a random post. Since I am not too concerned with rotation, set the gameObject to Quaternion.identity. The complete code will look like this.
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Instantiate(_tripleShotPowerUpPrefab, postToSpawn, Quaternion.identitiy);
I then went on to ensure the power up spawn within x–y amount of seconds. To do that, I created a yield within the while() loop which will then look like this:
yieldreturnnewWaitForSeconds(Random.Range(X,Y));
Power up those assets!
