Questions on Survival shooter Beginner game

Hi there,

1) I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the animations here. Animations are made up of keyframes that dictate things like the positions of the gameobjects being animated. Is this what you mean by break points? Break points typically are things that are added to scripts to help debugging.

2) Likewise, I'm a little confused by the terminology you've used here. By package up the game do you mean build it? Building is the process by which you would create an executable. Which platform did you build for, it sounds like perhaps the webplayer? Did you make any changes to the project that would affect the UI? Have you tried building the completed scene, if so does it have the same problem?

Let me know what you mean and I'll do my best to help you out.

James

 

Hello there,

1) I understand now, you wish to know how to create your own animation events. Firstly there are two types of animation event, those on externally created animation, such as on an FBX and those for internally created animations - animations created in the Animation window (separate and distinct from the Animator window). I believe the type you are referring to are Animation Events on an FBX. To add an animation event to such an animation use these steps:

• Go to the FBX importer in the inspector (this is opened by selecting an FBX in the project window).
• At the top there are three tabs: Model, Rig and Animations. Select Animations.
• Here each animation clip that has been made from the animation data on the FBX can be seen and edited. Near the bottom of properties of each clip there are a number of foldouts, including Curves and Events. Unfold Events.
• Here you will see a timeline of the animation and button to the left of it. When the red line is at the appropriate point in the timeline, press the button to create a new animation event that is called at that time.
• Pressing the button will open a dialogue box with various options. The Function property is the name of the function that will be called by the event. This string needs to exactly match the function name. When the animation event is hit, Unity will check all the public functions on the gameobject which has the Animator component.
• The other options are for any parameters to be passed to the animation event.

Important things to note about animation events made like this:

• The function must be public.
• The function can have zero or one parameter.
• The function must be in a MonoBehaviour that is attached to the same GameObject as the Animator component. This Animator component must be using the controller that runs the animation.

2) This could be a few different things. Chief among problems like this is that the UI elements have been placed with a pixel offset instead of using the Anchors. It is almost always best to use Anchors to position UI relative to the screen size rather than pixel offsets. To check this is the case make sure that on the Rect Transform of your missing UI elements, the Pos X, Pos Y and Pos Z elements are zero or at least very small. If instead of Pos X and Pos Y you have Left and Top, then likewise, these should be very small or zero.
If the UI elements have already been positioned using Anchors, ensure they are children of the same Canvas as the UI elements that are appearing. If they are and are still not visible, make sure you are using the most up to date version of Unity and submit a bug report. In the report, explain exactly what is happening in as much detail as possible. Describe the steps on how to reproduce this bug with your project as closely as possible.
The bug reporter is found in the Help menu of Unity.

I hope this helps.

James