Refine the player movement/shooting

[Malmis1]

Make changes to the movement and shooting that makes the overall movement more intuitive and responsive.

Various points to consider (ignore the crossed out points):

• Make the player able to autofire the weapon (regardless of what type of weapon it is)
• Making the player slide across a surface when shooting the weapon up while in the air
  • This might also lead to some unwanted side effects (this might also lead to some unwanted side effects, such as the player sliding off a platform they intended to land on)
• Making the recoil when firing in the air more consistent
  • When the player fires in the same direction as they are moving in, vs firing in the opposite direction as they are moving in
  • Also when the player tries to slow down movement by using the recoil (traveling quickly in one direction and shooting in the same direction)
• Fix recoil sometimes causing the player to be launched way further than anticipated
  • Especially when the player shoots and presses a movement key at the same time.
  • Or when jumping and shooting with the weapon pointing downwards at the same time
• Adjust ResetVelocity method in the WeaponController class to avoid resetting movement

[Malmis1]

I have created a new branch movement-weapon-test where I have experimented a bit with movement bd39d1f.

I created a field additiveRecoilAngleThreshold in the WeaponController class.

The general idea is:

If the player shoots within this angle (the 250° in the picture), it will cause the velocity to be added to the current velocity the character is traveling in. If the player shoots outside of this angle (the 110° in the picture), the velocity will be reset first before then applying the recoil.

This approach aims to allow the player to always have the recoil launch the player in the opposite direction. Especially in the case where the player is already traveling quickly in a certain direction (such as falling). Then it will launch the player instead of just slowing the movement down.

[Malmis1]

I have made some changes in the movement-weapon-test branch to how player movement works 4c06446. I changed the horizontal movement (inputting left and right) such that the rigidbody has force applied to it. This change is based on this answer.

The current changes addresses issue #7 and makes the overall controls feel a bit more refined in my opinion. There are however some new issues that needs to be fixed as a result of this:

• [x] The player sticks to walls when moving into them.
• [ ] The player gets less and less aircontrol when falling at increasing speeds.
• [ ] The player will sometimes stop abruptly when landing.
• [ ] The velocity limit method is temporarily commented out.