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2D Space Shooter Instantiating bullet question
Hello, I am currently working on a 2D space shooter and I'm using instantiate to get my bullets to shoot out of my ship. It works well, but not as well as I would like it to. At the moment I am using the code
if (Input.GetKeyDown("space")) {
Instantiate(bullet,transform.position,Quaternion.identity);
}
Which like I said works, but it shoots from the middle of the ship which looks ridiculous to me. I would like to set a certain part of the ship for the bullets to fire out of, for example: the barrels I made on the ship. The only problem I have with that is if I do set a certain position of the ship to shoot out from it will only shoot at out of those coordinates instead of the constantly changing gun barrels coordinates. So, how would I get that to work correctly? I'm sure this isn't too difficult.
Also, if I could also get help on how I would get the enemy ships to shoot as well that would be great. I'm guessing I would use a piece of code saying basically after a set amount of seconds it would fire. (Also out of those constantly changing positions).
transform.position+offset
Try making the enemies work first then ask that as a separate question for any specific problems you might have.
You can create an empty game object on your ship's cannons. It will move with the ship and will also follow the cannon position/rotation.
Then, reference this game object to your script by creating a public variable and then drag'n'dropping your new game object to this variable.
public Transform cannonOutput;
And finally, use its position when creating your bullet
if (Input.GetKeyDown("space")) {
Instantiate(bullet, cannonOutput.position, Quaternion.identity);
}
Took a little bit to figure out, but it works perfectly. Thanks! :P
