Core GameKit! Pooling / Spawning / Combat

Triggered Despawner - its on my shot, checked invisible and checked on collision taged enemy - neither work.

 

Well first of all, why don't you use the Killable script instead of Triggered Despawner? In almost every case it does the same thing but has more options.

If you want to stay with Triggered Despawner, each of the checkboxes could be a different problem. We can tackle Invisible first.
Is there a renderer component on the same GameObject? If not, there will be no OnInvisible event, so that won't work. If there is a renderer, make sure that when the GameObject goes off the Game view screen, it's not still visible in Scene view. Unity thinks that's still "visible" - I disagree. I'll wait to hear back from you.

 

So I've tried both solutions, and neither are working. How have you set things up in your scene and prefabs?
Here's how I've set things up:

 

take a look

 

I can't read those, they're way too small. And it doesn't let me download them or anything...

 

Wow, why are you in "debug" mode? That syncro spawner is in debug mode. Go back to "normal" mode and set it up again. If you had set it up in debug mode I don't think it will work right. Also, level 1 wave 1 needs to be not over and the current wave for "Spawn One" to work, in case it's not.

 

The renderer was a child - thanks! - is there a way to destroy parent?

Our is should stick with boundry technique?

 

Use the Killable script on the parent, and "check" the despawn events you want there. Then put a KillableChildVisibility component on the child with the renderer. Then it should work.

 

BTW: when importing a new ver 3.0 there was some alert I think about "Widget animation". What does your asset have to do with widgets?

 

Thanks!

 

There's a Syncro Spawner widget - 2 actually, red and green. They don't have any animations though so don't worry. That warning has been there since Unity 4.0. I'm not sure how to fix it - I'm not good with animations.

 

So this is how it shows up once I parent the spawner to the player ship. I don't know how to change it to debug or "normal" mode. How do I change it to "normal" mode?

 

You can't change the parent of a Syncro Spawner. That's not supported. A Triggered Spawner, sure, change the parent all you want. That's probably why it's not working. In the top right corner of Inspectors, there's an arrow next to the lock symbol. That arrow lets you switch between debug and normal mode.

 

Alright, so it's spawning, now I want it to spawn from the player ship, wherever it is. At the moment it's spawning from the spawner and that doesn't work, for the game. How do I make it shoot from the player character?

 

Use a Triggered Spawner if you want to do that. Attach it to the player prefab. Then you'll just need to figure out which event type to use. Are you using NGUI? Or what are your sprites or 3d objects made in?

 

I'm just using 2d sprites I made in Pyxel Edit and exported as .PNGs. I'm putting those in empty game objects. I'm not using NGUI. Does that change how I should go about it? I was thinking of using PlayMaker actions to trigger it. I'm thinking of using a code trigger event with the event type. How do I go about making that work?

 

That sounds good, let me try it and let you know how. NGUI has an "onclick" event, but that probably wouldn't work for your game anyway because you'd have to click on the player to fire...

 

I've submitted a hotfix version 3.0.1.1 because example scene #1 didn't have any enemies spawning. They were turned off. It should be live in a few minutes.

 

Jerotas IMHO your asset is missing killable child visibility to long.

 

Piece of cake. So here's what you do to get it working.

1) Add Triggered Spawner component to the Player (you already have) and set up a wave for Code-Triggered 1 (1 missile?).
2) Somewhere add a Playmaker FSM to a gameObject that will have a state that knows when to make the player fire the projectile.
3) To that step in the FSM, add action "Call Method" (normal Playmaker action).
4) In the Behaviour field, drag in the Triggered Spawner component from the player.
5) In the Method name field, type "ActivateCodeTriggeredEvent1".

Done! Works on my computer.

 

"TO LONG" is there? cant find it?

 

I'm not sure what "To Long" is?

 

If I set Not visible too long on parent, the child not visible script doesnt work.

 

You shouldn't set that on the parent since it has no renderer. So we need to add it for the Child script right?

 

Yes, this is what I wanted to say in my first post - sorry for my poor english

 

No I misunderstood what you said. We will add that in the next version.

 

Thanks

 

No problem! Continue to help me make this product even more awesome by telling me what's missing.

 

Also IMHO you could add an option to so attack point could get defined from world variable - so you could uprade damage on player for exaple (or maybe you can do it, but I dont see how).

 

As long as you're using Killable, you can do this. The attack points field has a dropdown on the right that says "self". Change that to "Variable", then select a variable to the left of that.

Note: ALL integer and float fields in Core GameKit now support this behavior.

 

Cant find int

 

Did you change the dropdown to "Variable"? If you do, then all "whole number" variables will be shown in the variable dropdown that appears to the left.

 

I dont knwo how to change the dropdown to Variable - no idea

 

Are you joking with me now? It's a blue dropdown.

 

I am not kidding, I just spend 20 min looking for it. Can you send me screen?

Where is that drop down? In the inspector? On the object that has killabe script on it? I cant see there anything there with dropdown and Variable.

 

Oh wow! So it works!
Thanks soooo much!! This ends two days of banging my head against the wall!!

 

Yeah, it's in the Inspector. You said you wanted to change Attack Points to use a World Variable. So go to Attack Points in your Killable Inspector. On the very right, there's a blue dropdown that's on "Self". Change that to "Variable". Maybe your Inspector isn't wide enough to see it? Make it wider.

 

No problem!

 

Chris Master, there's a picture on page 24 of this thread, showing the blue dropdown...here it is again.



See how I've used a variable for attack points?

 

I dont see anything blue there ... I inreased size of the inspector to the max ...




Can you see my screen? Its diffrent, I am special somehow

 

I think you said you're on V2.7 of this plugin right? The blue dropdown and Pooling is only available starting on V3.0. You'll need to upgrade to get those features. Make sure to read the "breaking" changes" parts of all versions above your before upgrading. There will be a few steps you have to do first.

 

For some time, I felt like complite idiot, but there was no way I could find it
Thanks

 

No worries, it's not you!

 

Core GameKit 3.1 is submitted and will be live in a couple minutes. Changelog:

• Performance upgrade: Changed all repeatedly called CoRoutines into looping CoRoutines.
• Added wave offset field to Triggered Spawners and Syncro Spawners. This is a Vector3 field and is added to the Spawner position prior to any Incremental Settings and Post-Spawn Nudge Settings to choose a custom spawn location.
• Added "disable event after" checkbox to Triggered Spawner events. That way you can make it only work once.
• Added controls to Killable Child Visibility script to despawn the Killable if not visible too long - same as Killable controls.

 

Oh, the sale has been extended through the weekend. We noticed that Sunday is the 1st anniversary of launching this plugin, and we want to have the sale then, but it's already on, so we'll keep it on!

 

These sound like good upgrades. How can I avoid breaking things if I were to update?

 

There are no breaking changes upgrading from v3.0. You're already on 3.0 right?

 

Why does Level Wave Settings prefab start now with 3 Spawners? Left, middle, right?

 

That's a mistake. I may have applied my changes from Example scene 1. I'll submit a hotfix. There should be none.

 

V3.1.1 hotfix submitted. It will be live in a couple minutes. This removes all Prefab Pools and Spawners from the default LevelSettings prefab.