The Issue
I'm making a 2D Unity game where the main weapon of your character is a fireball gun. The idea is that a fireball will shoot out of the player's hand at the same angle the player's hand is pointing. I have 3 issues:
When I shoot the fireball, since the fireball is a RididBody, it pushes the player. This is because I've made the centre of the player's arm (the same place where the fireball shoots from) the point at which the arm rotates around the player (what is meant to be the shoulder);
To instantiate the fireball prefab on the arm, the only way I know how to do it is by using a piece of code which requires the arm to be a RigidBody. This means that the arm is affected by gravity and falls off the player on start unless I freeze the arm's y-axis movement, which means that when the player jumps, while the arm does not fall, it floats at the same y-position as where it started while moving along the x-axis; and
When the fireball is shot, the angle from which it is propelled after being shot is not the same angle as the angle of the player's arm.
Instantiating the Fireball
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
pew.Play();
var fireballTransform = Instantiate(fireballPrefab); //creates a new shot sprite
fireballTransform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x + horizMultiplier, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
fireballTransform.rotation = orientation;
fireballTransform.transform.Rotate(0, 0, transform.rotation.z);
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D)) // moves right
{
orientation = 0;
horizMultiplier = 0.08F;
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A)) // moves left
{
orientation = 180;
horizMultiplier = -0.08F;
}
This piece of code is located within the script applied to the player's arm. The movement of the arm works fine and the problem seems to be either within this piece of code or the code for my fireball (which I will put next). A few definitions:
pew is a sound effect played when the fireball is shot;
horizMultiplier is the distance from the arm's centre which I would like the fireball to instantiate (also dependant of if the player) is facing left or right); and
orientation is which direction the player is facing (left or right). The fireball is then instantiated facing that same direction.
Fireball Script
public Vector2 speed = new Vector2(); // x and y forces respectively
private Rigidbody2D rb; // shorthand
private float rotation;
void Start()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>(); // shorthand
rotation = rb.rotation;
if (rotation == 0)
{
rb.AddForce(Vector3.right * speed.x); // propels right
}
if (rotation == 180)
{
rb.AddForce(Vector3.left * speed.x); // propels left
}
}
I believe this code is explanatory enough with comments (if not please comment and I'll address any question). I believe an issue could also be in this piece of code because of the lines: rb.AddForce(Vector3.right * speed.x); and rb.AddForce(Vector3.left * speed.x); as these add directional forces to the object. I don't know is this is objective direction (right or left no matter what direction the object the force is being applied to is facing) or if it's right or left in terms of the object-- say if an object was rotated 90 degrees clockwise and that object had a force applied so that it moves right making the object move downwards.
What I'm expecting to happen is the player's arm will turn so that when a fireball is fired it is fired in the direction the arm is facing. The arms turning mechanics are fine, it's just trying to properly instantiate the fireball. Can anyone help with any of the issues I've laid out?
How I would go about this:
Add an empty transform as child of the arm and move it to where the fireball should spawn. Also make sure the rotation of it is such that its forward vector (the local z-axis) points to where the fireball should go. To see this, you need to set "Local" left of the play button.
Spawn the fireball at the transform's position with its rotation.
Ignore collision between the arm's/player's collider and the fireball's collider with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html. If necessary, you can enable the collision between the two colliders again after 1s or so.
Set the fireball rigidbody's velocity to speed * rigidbody.forward.
If you need help with the code, please post it so I can see what's going on.
Edit:
The arm definitely doesn't require a Rigidbody.
You can just use Instantiate(prefab, position, rotation) as shorthand.
Is this for a 2D game?
Also, I'm going to sleep now but I'll gladly try to help tomorrow.
Your Issues
1) You should be masking the fireball's layer not to collide with your player's layer.
You can find more info about this here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LayerBasedCollision.html
(note: make sure you're on the Physics2D panel, and not the Physics one, as that's for 3D)
2) There is a setting called gravityScale in RigidBody2D. You should set this to 0 if you don't want gravity to be affecting your object. More info: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Rigidbody2D.html
Fireball Instantiate
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
pew.Play();
var position = hand.transform.position + hand.transform.forward * horizMultiplier;
var rotation = hand.transform.rotation;
var fireball = Instantiate<Fireball>(fireballPrefab, position, rotation);
fireball.StartMoving();
}
Fireball Script
private Rigidbody2D rb; // shorthand
private float rotation;
public float Speed;
public void StartMoving()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>(); // shorthand
rb.velocity = transform.forward * Speed;
}
void OnTriggerEnter(....) { .... }
Related
I'm relatively new to coding, having just started about a week ago, and I can't seem to figure out or find anything relating to look relative movement using a third person Cinemachine freelook camera.
What I'm trying to accomplish is a camera similar to Risk of Rain 2, or maybe Smite where you can orbit the player and look at the front of them while they're idle, but once you start moving the player rotates towards the direction the camera is looking, and stays facing that direction no matter how they're moving.
I have a basic scene set up with a Cinemachine freelook camera following a cube, but my problem is whenever I turn the camera then move, my character doesn't rotate and instead starts moving in the direction it's facing instead of where the camera's looking, then only starts rotating if I'm pressing a movement key, so the rotation gets disjointed from where the camera's looking, if that makes sense. I kind of frankensteined some code from Royal Skies' movement tutorial and someone else's rotation tutorial for a top-down game.
This is the code for a script applied to my player character;
public float speed = 4.5f;
public Vector3 deltaMove;
public float turnspeed = 500;
void Update()
{
deltaMove = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")) * speed * Time.deltaTime; //movement code
transform.Translate(deltaMove);
float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D) == true) //if wasd pressed, rotate
{
transform.Rotate(horizontal * turnspeed * Vector3.up * Time.deltaTime, Space.World); //the rotation code
}
}
I'd be willing to do anything to be honest, I've been trying to figure this out for a bit now.
When player moves forward the camera should follow except when player moves in left and right direction. Also when player turns 90 degrees following the path like in temple run the camera should follow the player by turning 90 degrees smoothly. How can I achieve that? Can anyone please provide a C# script?
If you follow these steps it should work:
1: add an empty gameObject called "CamPoint" on your player and position it where you want the camera.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIfbe.png
2: make a new script on your camera, call it "CameraFollow" and put this code in there:
public Transform camPoint;
public Transform player;
public float heightFromGround;
float yPos;
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
RaycastHit hit;
if (Physics.Raycast(player.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
{
yPos = hit.point.y;
}
transform.position = new Vector3(camPoint.position.x, yPos + heightFromGround, camPoint.position.z);
transform.LookAt(player.position);
}
3: Set the height from ground to the height of the camera.
4: Drag the CamPoint object to the CamPoint slot on the camera and the Player object to the player slot.
And now you are done, Hope this helps you!
So I am trying to make a game where you are rquired to set the angle and speed of a ball that has to bounce on specific platforms in order to get to the destination.
Now, how do I find the direction from where the finger touches, to the ball, in order to make it move "away from the finger".
I have tried to use the subtraction of vectors in order to get the direction but It does not work since the vectors are relative to the world origin...it always gives me a wrong direction...
How do I solve this problem, I need a direction vector relative to touch and player(the ball), not to world, so I can launch the ball.
You will see that in the next picture I am simulating a touch with the mouse arrow(let say the mouse arrow is the finger of the player.I want to launch the ball based on the distance and position of the finger relative to the ball. It works well in the code BUT ONLY if the ball is placed on the origin of the scene, so i think it's a mathematical problem with vectors that I don't know how to resolve...
Below is the code that I have by now. It is attached to the ball's gameobject:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
[SerializeField]
Camera playerCamera;
Rigidbody rb;
Vector3 touchPostion;
private void Awake()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}
private void FixedUpdate()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
{
LounchPlayer();
}
}
void LounchPlayer()
{
Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
touchPostion = (transform.position - playerCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(
new Vector3(mousePos.x,
mousePos.y,
playerCamera.transform.position.z))).normalized;
rb.AddForce(touchPostion.normalized, ForceMode.Impulse);
}
}
When finding your touch position, the z component of ScreenToWorldPoint's parameter should be an appropriate distance along the camera's forward vector, definitely not the camera's world z position. playerCamera.nearClipPlane is appropriate here, but really any small constant (such as 0) would suffice.
Also, there is no need to normalize the launch direction twice.
Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
touchPostion = (transform.position - playerCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(
new Vector3(
mousePos.x,
mousePos.y,
playerCamera.nearClipPlane))
).normalized; // This isn't a position vector; it's a direction vector.
// The var name "touchPosition" is misleading and should be changed.
float launchMagnitude = 1f; // change this to adjust the power of the launch
rb.AddForce(touchPostion * launchMagnitude , ForceMode.Impulse);
I attach a movement script to the player. with reference to the roller ball tutorial and modified it for jump. the problem is that when may player moves in any direction the player starts to rotate in that direction and even if i am standing still at the one position it starts to rotate and fall down the platform. the player has a rigidbody, boxcollider components.
void Awake ()
{
playerRigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
Coll = GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>();
}
/*private void Update()
{
}*/
// Update is called once per frame
void FixedUpdate ()
{
float h = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
float v = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
bool down = Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space);
if (down)
{
playerRigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
}
Move(h, v);
}
private bool IsGrounded()
{
return Physics.CheckCapsule(Coll.bounds.center, new Vector3(Coll.bounds.center.x,Coll.bounds.min.y,Coll.bounds.center.z),Coll.height * 9f,Ground);
}
void Move (float h, float v)
{
movement.Set(h, 0f, v);
movement = movement.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime;
playerRigidbody.MovePosition(transform.position + movement);
}
In your code,you use AddForce function,so I confirm your player rigidbody doesn't set Kinematic to true.
When your charactor collision with any other objects ,such as ground,wall, your charactor maybe rotate.
You could freeze rigidbody's rotation via inspector like Bijan says.
I don't recommand your use AddForce and MovePosition together.It may has other problem.
like this
This is due to the nature of the Rigidbody component. This component is very lifelike and when force is added and removed, the object still has inertia and therefore the object is still moving.
When it comes to the rotation it is due to the fact that when a force is applied to an object, the object also acquires rotational motion (also known as angular motion).
You can freeze the rotation using the constraints on the Rigidbody component.
Have a deeper look into this component [here].1
In my opinion, it is one of the core components of Unity and it is definitely worth looking into.
I hope I answered your question!
Im currently developing an Air hockey game in Unity3d. The issue I'm having is that when the player attempts to hit the puck too quickly, the player ends up going through the puck and therefore there is no collision. The game works perfectly as expected if the player stays still and the puck hits the player or if the player hits the puck at a slow pace.
The player has a rigidbody using continuous collision detection using a capsule collider. The puck also has rigidbody with continuous dynamic collision detection and a mesh collider with convex.
I tried setting the fixed timestep to 0.01 but that didn't have an effect. Here is the script for the player movement:
void ObjectFollowCursor()
{
Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
Vector3 point = ray.origin + (ray.direction * distance);
Vector3 temp = point;
temp.y = 0.2f; // limits player on y axis
cursorObject.position = temp;
}
and here is the code for the puck when it collides with the player:
// If puck hits player
if(collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
{
Vector3 forceVec = this.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity.normalized * hitForce;
rb.AddForce(forceVec, ForceMode.Impulse);
Debug.Log ("Player Hit");
}
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
The problem you are having its called "tunneling".
This happens because your object is moving at a high speed and in that specific frame the collision is not detected. In frame n the ball is just in front of the bat, but when frame n+1 is calculated the ball has moved behind the bat, thus "missing" the collision completely.
It is a common problem but there are solutions.
I recommend you study this script and try to implement on your game.
This is not my code:
SOURCE: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=DontGoThroughThings
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class DontGoThroughThings : MonoBehaviour
{
// Careful when setting this to true - it might cause double
// events to be fired - but it won't pass through the trigger
public bool sendTriggerMessage = false;
public LayerMask layerMask = -1; //make sure we aren't in this layer
public float skinWidth = 0.1f; //probably doesn't need to be changed
private float minimumExtent;
private float partialExtent;
private float sqrMinimumExtent;
private Vector3 previousPosition;
private Rigidbody myRigidbody;
private Collider myCollider;
//initialize values
void Start()
{
myRigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
myCollider = GetComponent<Collider>();
previousPosition = myRigidbody.position;
minimumExtent = Mathf.Min(Mathf.Min(myCollider.bounds.extents.x, myCollider.bounds.extents.y), myCollider.bounds.extents.z);
partialExtent = minimumExtent * (1.0f - skinWidth);
sqrMinimumExtent = minimumExtent * minimumExtent;
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
//have we moved more than our minimum extent?
Vector3 movementThisStep = myRigidbody.position - previousPosition;
float movementSqrMagnitude = movementThisStep.sqrMagnitude;
if (movementSqrMagnitude > sqrMinimumExtent)
{
float movementMagnitude = Mathf.Sqrt(movementSqrMagnitude);
RaycastHit hitInfo;
//check for obstructions we might have missed
if (Physics.Raycast(previousPosition, movementThisStep, out hitInfo, movementMagnitude, layerMask.value))
{
if (!hitInfo.collider)
return;
if (hitInfo.collider.isTrigger)
hitInfo.collider.SendMessage("OnTriggerEnter", myCollider);
if (!hitInfo.collider.isTrigger)
myRigidbody.position = hitInfo.point - (movementThisStep / movementMagnitude) * partialExtent;
}
}
previousPosition = myRigidbody.position;
}
}
You were right to try continuous collision detection (CCD). There are some constraints (especially in this case where you want to use CCD with two moving objects rather than one moving object and one static object), but it is designed for this kind of scenario. The Rigidbody documentation goes into these constraints:
Set the collision detection mode to Continuous to prevent the
rigidbody from passing through any static (ie, non-rigidbody)
MeshColliders. Set it to Continuous Dynamic to also prevent the
rigidbody from passing through any other supported rigidbodies with
collision detection mode set to Continuous or Continuous Dynamic.
Continuous collision detection is supported for Box-, Sphere- and
CapsuleColliders.
To sum up, both puck and paddle need to be set to Continuous Dynamic, and both need to be Box-, Sphere-, or Capsule Colliders. If you can make these constraints work for your game you should be able to get continuous collision detection without writing it yourself.
A note about Unity's CCD that bears repeating:
Note that continuous collision detection is intended as a safety net
to catch collisions in cases where objects would otherwise pass
through each other, but will not deliver physically accurate collision
results, so you might still consider decreasing the fixed Time step
value in the TimeManager inspector to make the simulation more
precise, if you run into problems with fast moving objects.
But since you are manually specifying the collision reaction, that might not be an issue.