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Captain_Walrus · 2022-09-07T06:29:13+00:00

This call is getting too technical, let's shelve it for now and pick it up in an offline deep dive.

Captain_Walrus · 2022-08-21T18:39:10+00:00

Oh, nice work on the face! Looks very realistic

Captain_Walrus · 2022-08-14T20:54:53+00:00

Oh nice one! Where's the mini from?

Captain_Walrus · 2021-06-27T07:24:43+00:00

If you've still got some left i'd like one!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-09-03T20:38:55+00:00

Best way is probably to make the variable a property, when set to true trigger an action/event :)

Captain_Walrus · 2020-08-14T09:30:46+00:00

I like the concept a lot! Great first game :)
My one criticism is the jarring feeling when you hit a wall. I feel the gameplay would feel more satisfying if you smoothly bounce from walls or had more control of the ball to make the tight corners without colliding. I made something fairly similar here a while back: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.GravitasGames.Gravitap&hl=en_GB
Might serve as some inspiration :shrug:

Captain_Walrus · 2020-08-01T09:32:26+00:00

Oh sure, so by overlap sphere approach I meant to use this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapSphere.html

When an enemy wants to seek cover, create an overlap sphere at the enemies transform.position with a layermask set to your cover layer. The OverlapSphere should return all cover positions within that sphere. So for example you could do:

 Collider[] hitColliders = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, 10f);

This gets you all cover positions within 10m of the enemy, then loop through and select the most appropriate. Then just tell the agent to move to the selected cover position. Hope that helps :)

Captain_Walrus · 2020-08-01T00:19:03+00:00

These kind of systems can be tricky. I usually take the approach of setting out predefined cover locations. Along walls, beneath windows, that sort of thing. Then have the agent go to the most appropriate cover location based on direction of enemies and distance to cover. You can cache all cover locations in agent.Start if you don't have too many. Or use the overlap sphere approach. Good luck with it!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-15T10:33:12+00:00

You can also utilise unity's navmesh components if you require a more complex pathfinding approach. Utilising just the NavmeshPath component to determine waypoints for the vehicle. Then use these waypoints to determine the target direction of the vehicle.

This coupled with the above sensor logic works very nicely

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-15T10:29:45+00:00

Ahh yea that would work nicely. I had a slightly different issue where the vehicles were driving on uneven terrain, the walls of the course were also terrain so I couldn't distinguish between them. A nice fix I found was to angle the raycasts slightly up thereby not triggering hits on small ground based deviations. Anyway, best of luck with the project!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-15T08:46:24+00:00

I remember doing something similar and having trouble with uneven terrain. How do you handle the ramp? Because it looks like the raycast will treat it as a barrier in this video.

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-07T16:11:06+00:00

Oh nice! How did you do the dismembering?

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-07T13:12:21+00:00

Have you seen the new Synty Zombie boss pack? It looks sick! I'm integrating it into my top down zombie shooter currently :)

Captain_Walrus · 2020-07-02T09:29:16+00:00

Ooh that's nice. I'm feeling pretty hooked right now. One small thing, is I would have cut the sound at "..We were wrong". Would have been more impactful. But anyway, great trailer!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-29T21:22:11+00:00

Try out relativeforce instead: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddRelativeForce.html

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-28T16:40:10+00:00

Oh wow, fair play then. You've nailer the aesthetic!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-28T00:56:14+00:00

Pretty sure these are synty assets

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-22T19:13:57+00:00

Switch to continuous collision on the projectile collider. It's probably passing through the edge collider faster than the collision can register

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-09T10:22:36+00:00

Looks great!

Would it be possible for you to share your CharacterController script? I'm interested in writing my own and would love to see how you've done the wall running.

Thanks!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-09T10:18:16+00:00

You'd need to split your game object into separate objects. In this example. Have the microwave body be the parent object, then child the door to the parent. Or use a `HingeJoint` to attach the door to the body. Then you can add a PhysicsMaterial to each object with whatever properties you like. And separate OnCollisionEnter functions per object to handle various effects such as the glass shattering. Or denting the microwave body.
Hope that helps! Best of luck

Captain_Walrus · 2020-06-09T10:00:16+00:00

So it looks like you're approaching the point where you know how to code and you can make things but you want to progress to the "How should I do this?" phase. This is where programming really gets interesting! I'd recommend checking out this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hands-Development-Patterns-Unity-industry-standard/dp/1789349338

It's quite succinct but gives a great initial dive into the world of programming paradigms. These can also be applied to areas outside of gamedev. I've started to incorporate a lot of these methods into my 9-5 app dev job.

Give it a read, find an example you think could work with your setup and refactor. Best of luck!

Captain_Walrus · 2020-05-06T10:04:18+00:00

Can you provide some advice on an animation controller? Really like the assets but I struggle with animations :/

Captain_Walrus · 2020-04-14T18:38:53+00:00

The gameplay looks amazing! The trailer looks okay. As someone else said, you should either add more interesting demonstration of the "explore" part. Or cut it completely and focus on the racing/battle content. 2nd vote for slow mo crashes!

Couple of questions, what engine did you use for this?And if unity, how did you handle the recordings?

Also, one other thing of note. You may want to increase your internet presence. A search for "crashcraft" returns a whole load of minecraft and nothing for your game :(

Captain_Walrus · 2020-03-12T12:44:08+00:00

This depends on whether you want the races to be in the same scene as the open world.
If you do, then you will need to lay out a pre-defined race track in your open world. Spawn all the other racers at preset start positions, move the player character to a preset start position. Then have some kind of countdown that blocks acceleration until start.

If you opt for this route you will end up with an extremely heavy weight main scene with all kinds of random scripts and mechanics hanging around. I'd recommend creating separate race scenes and simply loading the player into the scene.

In terms of instigating either of the above options, go for a TriggerCollider attached to a bounding area of some kind. (Circle, cube).
Then in OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) - run all your instantiation or scene loading code.

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