How to Make An Assault Rifle Fire automatic?

Hi! Me and a couple friends are planning to make a FPS game. We are somewhat new to Unity. I know some C#, but I was wondering how I can make he gun shoot at a certain pace (depending on the guns fire rate is how fast it would fire) and how I could just hold down the left mouse button and it will fire? Thanks!

 

pseudocode:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. float fireRate = 0.2;
3. float fireTime = 0
4.  
5. Update()
6. {
7.     fireTime -= Time.deltaTime;
8.  
9.     if(attacking && fireTime <= 0)
10.     {
11.         fireProjectile();
12.  
13.         fireTime = fireRate;
14.     }
15. }
16.  

 

But don't you need to instantiate the bullet?

 

you can use a co routine to delay the execution of firing.

Code (CSharp):

1. void startFiring()
2.     {
3.         StartCoroutine("fireBullet",0.5f);
4.     }
5.     IEnumerator fireBullet(float delay)
6.     {
7.        //instaniate bullet function
8.         yield return new WaitForSeconds (delay);
9.         StartCoroutine("fireBullet",delay);
10.     }

 

Since in real life it's nearly impossible to see bullets, they're replaced with RayCast trace. For guns like rocket launcher, you'll need to instantiate projectile.

fireProjectile() is a function which you have to define and put a shooting script into it.

Not advising you to "make a game like pong" first, but you must at least know how the engine works and how to do C# scripting.

 

Yeah but also in real life your bullet dosent make it to its location immedietly

 

This will it shoot without end while you use function startFiring

 

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