Script so that, my enemies only see my player at a certain r

Hi everyone,

I've been following the Tornado Twins tutorials on youtube and i just reached a snag.

In my scene i have turrets, whose head portion rotates along the base in order to aim at my player character. At the moment the turrets will aim and fire at my player character no matter where he is in game.

What i would like is for the Turrets to be offline or not working until the player character or TARGET has come within a certain range.

Thx.

This is my Script so Far
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var LookAtTarget:Transform;
var damp = 6.0;
var bulletPreFab:Transform;
var savedTime=0;


var attackRange = 30.0;
var shootAngleDistance = 10.0;
var target : GameObject;

function Update()
{
}

if(LookAtTarget)
{
var rotate = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position);
//Dampin/Delay on speed at which it follows the target
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotate, Time.deltaTime * damp);

var seconds : int = Time.time;
var oddeven = (seconds % 2);

if(oddeven)
{
Shoot(seconds);
}
}

//Turret Shoot function
function Shoot(seconds)
{
if(seconds!=savedTime)
{
var bullet = Instantiate(bulletPreFab, transform.Find("SpawnPoint").transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
//Bullet speed
bullet.gameObject.tag = "enemyProjectile";
bullet.rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * 800);

savedTime=seconds;
}
//Removed this peice of code, to make it more complex
//transform.LookAt(LookAtTarget);
//if an enemy as further than maxDistance from you, it cannot see you


}

 

My Bad


this is my script!!
The last one had a few errors


var LookAtTarget:Transform;
var damp = 6.0;
var bulletPreFab:Transform;
var savedTime=0;

function Update ()
{
//Look at a certain target
if(LookAtTarget)
{
var rotate = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position);
//Dampin/Delay on speed at which it follows the target
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotate, Time.deltaTime * damp);

var seconds : int = Time.time;
var oddeven = (seconds % 2);

if(oddeven)
{
Shoot(seconds);
}
}
}
//Turret Shoot function
function Shoot(seconds)
{
if(seconds!=savedTime)
{
var bullet = Instantiate(bulletPreFab, transform.Find("SpawnPoint").transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
//Bullet speed
bullet.gameObject.tag = "enemyProjectile";
bullet.rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * 1200);

savedTime=seconds;
}
//Removed this peice of code, to make it more complex
//transform.LookAt(LookAtTarget);
}

 

Add something like this to see if the target is "within range":

Code (csharp):

1. var dist = Vector3.Distance(LookAtTarget.position, transform.position);
2. if (dist < 100) {
3.     // do something if in range of 100 meters, etc.
4. }

 

I dont think that script alone will do anything? no?

 

He means that you should add that into your script

also, check out the FPS tutorials on the unity homepage..
I believe FPS tutorial Part 2 or 3 has some guides on turrets - that only see shoot the player when they can see him within a certain range

 

lol i figured he meant that,
except i never said anything about FPS.

and Adding this to my script didn't do anything besides add a (Distance Variable)

 

I know you didn't say FPS,
but the tutorial has exacly the kind of script you need - thats all I'm saying.
Just check it out man, there is a functioning script that makes a turret rotate to the player and shoot when it sees the player , and he is within a certain range.