3 questions -2D - slow weapon projectiles / enemy not shooting after respawn / random time shooting

Hello, first of all, thanks for any help. I really appreciate it. I have few questions which I cant solve and I don't know what to do with them. Researched a lot, but with no good result. I hope, this forum would be able to help to move a bit. Thanks again for any help.

1. I have made a new enemy script, where I shoot on player every 2 seconds, which works. The problem is, that is shoots very quickly (actually same speed of bullet as player). My goal is to shoot on player when he is alive, but shoot a bit slowly, so he can see the shot and have some time (let’s say 1 second) to evade it. I have no idea how to make shooting of enemies slower and longer. Googled yesterday for like 2 hours with no result :/ Does someone have an idea please? Here is my enemy AI http://pastebin.com/bPQUw8TR and enemy script for shooting http://pastebin.com/GgG36cJq

2. Second problem is causing me some headaches too. Problem is that my player can shoot and kill the enemies and they can kill him, but when the player respawn (using GM script below), Enemies no longer shoot on my player game object. At least I don't see it. And after some while (like 15 second) of doing nothing, suddenly, player is dead and my game is lagging at that point horribly. I saw in profiler, that it is caused by A* path finding or something and it happens only with multiple enemies (like 15). I don't know why this behavior happens at all. Can someone give me a helping hand please?

3. This is rather quick question. Right now, I use InvokeReapatition for enemies to shoot every 2 seconds, which makes them shoot every 2 second. But it makes all of them shoot at the same time even after respawn of the enemy. Is there a way, I can force them to shoot each in different time? I mean like that every enemy has his own timer, so they will be shooting separated and everyone in different time?

Here are other scripts, which will be maybe needed:
GM script for respawns and killing http://pastebin.com/ePidNbmH
EnemySpawner script http://pastebin.com/m0VZFuMF
Enemy class http://pastebin.com/wBCGMeiv
Player class http://pastebin.com/His54ijV

Thank you for any suggestions, even if you can help me with some part of question, please, do not hesitate to write it down. Thank you very much

 

1) raycast is immediate... you'll have to look at instantiating a shot so the player can see that shot and avoid it.
2) how do the enemies know about the player? I don't see anything in those scripts where the pickup the player location? you respawn the player by destroy/instantiate, it may be that the existing enemies have a null value after the destroy and they aren't getting a reference to the new player transform?
3) again, no code showing how the enemies fire... so. Sure, depending on how you've done it

 

I'm so sorry, forgot to attach key script. Here is enemy shooting script: http://pastebin.com/YqgBppH8
and here is AI pathfinding(using A*): http://pastebin.com/5s257q0U

Actually, those scripts are added in Question n.1 at the end.

 

bah, so you did

so for 2) you set the playerrrr on Awake() in the enemy shooting script. If you destroy the player and instantiate another one the enemies aren't going to check for another player... you're going to need either an Update() on the enemies which checks for a null player and tries to find a new player object, or some sort of message when you respawn the player which tells the enemies who(or what) the new player object is and restart shooting etc.

 

for 3) you are using

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  InvokeRepeating("Shoot", 2, 3);
3.  

so wait 2 seconds, call "Shoot" then every 3 seconds call "Shoot". You could change the 2 to

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Random.Range(minDelay, maxDelay)
3.  

so they all get a slightly different start time, but keep the 3 second fire rate

 

3. Thanks for that tip. this works as I plan it. Will fiddle with it a bit more.
2. Well the problem here is, that if I do this:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. playerrrr = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
3.         if (playerrrr != null)
4.         {
5.            
6.             firePoint = transform.FindChild("EnemyFP");
7.             if (firePoint == null)
8.             {
9.                 Debug.LogError("No firepoint! Weapon or something missing bro");
10.             }
11.             InvokeRepeating("Shoot", Random.Range(minDelay, maxDelay), Random.Range(minDelay, maxDelay));
12.  
13.         }

Then the enemies are not firing every random second, but the fire like crazy and player is dead instantly. If I am correct, its because it is in update method and therefore the invokerepetation method is called every frame. Is that right? So how can I do it that they fire just once?

 

something like...
pseudo

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. bool isShooting = false
3.  
4.  
5. void function()
6. {
7. ...
8. if(!isShooting)
9. {
10. invoke...
11. isShooting = true;
12. }
13. }
14.  

 

That worked! And actually problem with enemies not shooting was in my method where I was calling new update for actual health. Which was a null object and after that, they just did not want to shoot. Thanks for you kind replay and help

 

no worries