Firing system

[ghost]

Our ship will have a firing system and depending on the complexity of the solution, I will see if a bullet system or a tracker-rockets system will be implemented. I will use placeholder projectiles until we decide on who makes the models (next week). Solution ETA - 1/1.5 weeks.

[SharktasticA]

Nice!

One thing we probably need to decide on is how projectiles will (or will not) be affected by gravity. If you'd like, we could work on investigating it sometime in the next week?

[ghost]

Yeah, sounds good. That depends on if we want the projectiles to be actual physical objects or sci-fi-style "laser bullets". I'll make a basic script and then we can see what we can do about that.

[SharktasticA]

Some thought has already been put by @TheAddis towards missile banks, so we'll probably be going projectiles. Even if we didn't, due to wave-particle duality (where light particles (photons) exhibit both wave and particle properties), gravity would also affect laser (which is essentially just intense light) weapons. For example, that's why not even light can escape a gravity well such as a black hole.

The real question is probably if the effort warants attention to this. On second thought, it would be hard for a player to notice the affect anyway. If you do push ahead with the idea, let me know if you need any changes to Gravimetrics (the gravity script) so you can access it.

[ghost]

Yeah, I know what you mean but that would just be adding unnecessary complexity for us and changes almost nothing in the player experience. If we have time after doing the essentials, sure though.

[SharktasticA]

Agreed. We'll leave it for now then.

[ghost]

Did research on the firing system. The implementation might take a few more days as ship controls have to be fixed before the testing for the firing system is done.

[ghost]

Finished working on the rudimentary movement system, so I'm starting to work on a deeper and more focused research and implementation of the firing system.

[SharktasticA]

Any updates? Starting on saturday, I'll be modelling a projectile for this. Its been almost 2 months since this was last talked about but needs doing.

[SharktasticA]

This task will need to be reassigned

[SharktasticA]

I'll get this simple task out of the way. Should just be a matter of reusing collision code and launching a prefab missile.

[SharktasticA]

Update 3adca350530f4691c86fc93bff373755592ec034

Firing is tested to be working. Currently using a simple placeholder missile with a script to push with force and detect collisions. You press space to fire. Example of probe firing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAWD58fRroU

System makes use of two scripts

• Firing.cs - attached to probe and handles registering the key for firing and checking if firing is possible
• ProjectilePush.cs - attached to missile prefab to handle both collisions, pushing the missile with force, and maintaining track of fuel

[SharktasticA]

BUG: Just noticed there is a possibility that you can somehow destroy yourself with a missile.

[cajtubb]

Sounds like real life!

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BUG: Just noticed there is a possibility that you can somehow destroy yourself with a missile.

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[SharktasticA]

We could just keep it as a 'feature' then! :P

[TheAddis]

Yeah it's probably better to keep in, quality bug

[SharktasticA]

Update 8416b7c213b97370ea4babee55a589aa37e3fa13

Bug fixed. Basically, when the projectile fires, it was traveling slower than the player hence a collision. I just used layers to prevent this from happening since it becomes a big issue when travelling fast.

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Update 8416b7c https://github.com/PlaceholderGames/Team1-2017/commit/8416b7c213b97370ea4babee55a589aa37e3fa13

Bug fixed. Basically, when the projectile fires, it was traveling slower than the player hence a collision. I just used layers to prevent this from happening since it becomes a big issue when travelling fast.

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Couldn't you make it so the missile gains the speed equal to the normal missile speed + the players speed? Kinda like real life?