Zombie Progression Report: Player Movement & Shooting Unity 3D
Since the last progression report (FPS Progression Report: Zombie Shooter (New Input System)Unity), I finished working on player movement and added shooting to the game. Let’s start.
Player Movement
Firstly, I wanted to make it easier for the player to know where they were looking and aiming. So I added a reticle to the center of camera.
After implementing the camera system, I found a bug where player movement is not being translated to global space, so player wasn’t rotating properly and I solved it by implementing one line of code (check the solution here: Local space vs world space in Unity). Also I found it essential to clamp the player vertical look, so they don’t look way down now way up.
Player Shooting
A shooting system in Unity can be done in so many ways, for our prototype for the GameDevHQ program, we decided to use Ray Casting. Basically ray casting is shooting a ray (an invisible laser) from a position to a destination and detecting if there was a collision between the ray and whatever it crosses paths with.
Also, I added a global health system. One C# script that will be used by both the player and the enemies to create health and detect targets with the health components.
To test it out, I added the health script to two gameObjects, gave them some health, and started shooting.
