Fire Rate Issues

So I'm new to Unity and been following a lot of Brackey's tutorials to find my way. I want to make some sort of FPS game so I watched "Shooting with Raycasts - Unity Tutorial"

It all works until I add the fire rate in and then it just seems to not work. When I use the code below, the gun shoots full auto since it is "GetButton" but the fire rate doesn't seem to come into play at all. Can anyone help?

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class GunScript : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public float damage = 25f;
8.     public float range = 100f;
9.     public AudioSource gunShot;
10.     public float fireRate = 1f;
11.     public Camera fpsCam;
12.     public ParticleSystem muzzleFlash;
13.  
14.     private float nextTimeToFire = 0f;
15.     // Start is called before the first frame update
16.     void Start()
17.     {
18.      
19.     }
20.  
21.     // Update is called once per frame
22.     void Update()
23.     {
24.         if(Input.GetButton("Fire1") && Time.time >= nextTimeToFire)
25.         {
26.             nextTimeToFire = Time.time + 1f / fireRate;
27.             Shoot();
28.         }
29.     }
30.  
31.     void Shoot()
32.     {
33.         muzzleFlash.Play();
34.         gunShot.Play();
35.         RaycastHit hit;
36.         if (Physics.Raycast(fpsCam.transform.position, fpsCam.transform.forward, out hit, range))
37.         {
38.             Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);
39.  
40.             Enemy target = hit.transform.GetComponent<Enemy>();
41.             if(target != null)
42.             {
43.                 target.TakeDamage(damage);
44.             }
45.         }
46.     }
47. }
48.  

 

This is commonly called a "cooldown timer." You can google for examples and tutorials, but the simplest way is this:

1. have a

private float gunHeat;

variable

2. In Update(), if that variable is greater than zero, subtract Time.deltaTime from it (this cools down the

gunHeat

)

Code (csharp):

1. if (gunHeat > 0)
2. {
3.   gunHeat -= Time.deltaTime;
4. }

3. When you go to fire:
--- A. only fire if that

gunHeat

variable is zero or less.
--- B. set that variable to the time (in seconds) you want to have between shots.

Code (csharp):

1. if (UserWantsToFireTheGun)
2. {
3.   if (gunHeat <= 0)
4.   {
5.     gunHeat = 0.25f;  // this is the interval between firing.
6.     ActuallyDoTheFiring();
7.   }
8. }

 

Seriously thanks. Been trying this many ways and when looking at this way I feel like an idiot. Thanks

 

thx you really helped me

 

thanks