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(For Fatnick makes a game Part 4, click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

Since my last update a lot of stuff has changed!<\/p>\n

Having completed my test track, I’ve decided to go in more of an arcade-driven direction for the actual game. So let’s make a game!<\/p>\n

To start with, I’ve dropped my car into a new scene and created a road for it. Oh, I’ve also dropped in a coach for you to crash into and a script with will make you explode if you hit either the coach or the crash barriers.\u00a0 Hurrah!<\/p>\n

\"make<\/a>

A coach! It’s like the M25<\/p><\/div>\n

So how did I do it? Well, having already created my prefab for the car, I simply dropped it into a scene with a plane 100m long and about four lanes wide. That having been done, I dropped smaller planes for the lane markings and a couple of long blocks for the crash barriers. Simple.<\/p>\n

From there, I locked the car’s rotation on the Y and Z axis, preventing any rolling and allowing for some slightly more ridiculous handling.<\/p>\n

With the car and the barrier having been created, it was time to drop in a basic crash script I started with this<\/a> and got:<\/p>\n

\/\/Basic collision detection checking for car and wall, swapping model for debris<\/p>\n

function OnCollisionEnter(thecollision : Collision)<\/p>\n

{<\/p>\n

if(thecollision.gameObject.name==”Walls”)<\/p>\n

{<\/p>\n

Instantiate(Debris, transform.position, transform.rotation);<\/p>\n

Destroy(gameObject);<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

else if(thecollision.gameObject.name==”Large1″)<\/p>\n

{<\/p>\n

Instantiate(Debris, transform.position, transform.rotation);<\/p>\n

Destroy(gameObject);<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This script will only kill you, currently, if you crash into the walls or my coach. I have a feeling this is possibly a bad approach generally, but I intend to have a strictly limited about of things that can kill you – so I don’t mind adding them individually.<\/p>\n

\"make<\/a>

Here’s my debris – it’s about the same size as the car.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

As for the ‘debris’ (the remains of the car) and ‘Large1’ (my coach), I created the debris from a collection of MR2-sized cubes with an internal sphere collider, and my large obstacle took the form of a royalty-free model of a coach (predictably on the wrong axis as before –\u00a0 but nothing adding to a parent object didn’t solve.)<\/p>\n

\"MR2<\/a><\/p>\n

So, with the car, object and collision script ready to go, did anything work? Nope! Predictably my shiny new script wouldn’t work at all. Why? I have absolutely no idea. For some reason the ‘if’ clauses weren’t working, so the car would explode into blocks the second it spawned on the road. Erk.<\/p>\n

Weirdly, however, all it took to resolve this was saving and loading the next morning. Again, I have absolutely no idea why that worked, but I’m definitely not complaining! So now, I had an MR2, a stationary coach, and a script which made the car explode if it hit either the walls or the coach.<\/p>\n

But now, of course,\u00a0 I had to make the coach move. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure about the best way of going about this. I was thinking of editing the script I’d used to control the MR2, but then I came upon Unity Steer<\/a>. As it contains a number of scripts which also handle route finding etc, I thought this would no only help get things moving, but may well help out down the line if I wanted to include lane changes etc. My Coach now moves forward thanks to the rather splendid Autonomous Vehicle script.<\/p>\n

\"make-game\"<\/a>

Wheeee<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

So now I have my first 5 seconds of gameplay. Sorry, that wasn’t fantastically entertaining was it? Sorry. I’ll try and be more interesting next time AND have something interactive!<\/p>\n

(Part 6<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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