How to make a flashlight which is ON after collect?

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Hello! Im making horror game. I want to make a flashlight which will be ON (till the end of the game) after collecting it from shelf. I know how to make a normal flashlight (attach spotlight to player or something else) but i dont have any script for it etc etc. If u want u can link here free flashlight model too :P Thanks in advance :)

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Answer by kog513 · Jul 17, 2018 at 03:58 PM

I'm new here but I got this simple idea , u creat two flashlights , one set it inactive at the start of the game and make it already attached to the player and the other one in the shelf or whatever u wanna put it , anyway add a bool variable to your player and add a methode which only functions if the bool is ture that sets the first flashlight to active .. one ore thing u can destroy the one you collected attach this script to your Character .

 public class FlashLight: MonoBehaviour {
 public GameObject FlashLight // the one attached to the player 
 private bool FlashLight_collected ;
     void Start() {
 FlashLight.SetActive(true) ;
 }
 void Update(){
    /* The following code means ones u collected the FlashLight the one attached to the player will be 
    set to active */
     if (FlashLight_collected &&  !FlashLight.active){
                FlashLight.SetActive(true) ;
        }
   }
 void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider){
       if (collider.CompareTag("FlashLight")) {
        DestroyObject(collider.gameobject) ;
        FlashLight_collected  = true ;
       // you can improve it by setting a bool to true and once u r out of the colliders it set it to false and 
           add another methode which allows u to click on a specific key to collect that Flashlight
         }
  }

} I'm new as well and I'm not used to write stuff in the forum so I'm sorry if I wasnt clear enough or if I had some mistakes in the code . Try it ur self just copy the idea and make ur own code doesnt matter if it's unoptimized just try to understand and learn how to code . I'm like 18 days in unity and I never coded before , Only some python in the uni but I can apply most of my ideas now

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aser133gaming · Jul 17, 2018 at 05:17 PM 0

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Yea man but im that type of newbie can u explain it more? xD

kog513 aser133gaming · Jul 17, 2018 at 06:05 PM 0

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Okay I'll do my best , think about it this way : U already have the flash light but u wont be able to use it until u collect another one , So the Idea is to set the one attached to u as inactive(like invisble and wont function) at the beginning of the game , and then when u collect one in game , u set it to active(visible and functions) .

-First creat a flashlight and make it a child to ur player , and set to inactive ( in the inspecter ) - creat another flashlight and position it wherever u want -now make a sphere collider and set it to trigger to the flashlight u will be collecting ,and give it a tag like "FlashLight" ( give it any tag u want ) -now creat a script and attach it to ur player So u need 2 variables : - GameObject FlashLight // the one attached to u since the game started so make it a public one and drag and drop ur flash light in it . - Bool CollectedFlashLight // which will decide if the FlashLight attached to u should be active or not now in the script creat a methode like this one :

 void FoundFlashLight(){
 if (collectedFlashLight && !FlashLight.active) {
 /* Just saying , if u dont know this : if u apply "!" to a bool variable that means setting it to the opposit value in this case u r checking if it's false (which means our flashlight , the one attached to ur player is not active)*/
 FlashLight.SetActive(true) ;
 }
 }

now we need to check if we collected the FlashLight or not by making OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider) methode this methode takes a Collider Variable as a parametre , the collider variable is whatever u collide with but if this collider is set to trigger this means u can enter in the collision range , sry I'm not a good explainer ..

so we need to add this code :

 void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider){
 if (collider.CompareTag("FlashLight")) {
 // write the tag u attached to the flashlight u will be collecting 
 destroyObject(gameobject) ; // Since we no longer need it
 collectedFlashLight = true ; 
 }
 }

now the final step call the FoundFlashLight() methode in ur update finction ! and voila done I'm sry mate I wish I could contact u in a better way to explain the whole thing perfectly . but u need to check for OnCollisionEnter() , OnTriggerEnter , If , while , RayCast and the common variables like Collider , Collision , int , float , string , RayCastHit , Some Input methodes ect .. start slowly mate just search and write stuff in a paper try to Creat something through what u know , and try each time to invent new ideas from the same way of Coding , I'm Creating a Game and it's pretty awsome so far , even tho I'm not that good with coding and stuff , but I never copy others scripts .. if u want to contact me I may can help u learn how to code , but u need to be really patient and spend some time trying

aser133gaming kog513 · Jul 27, 2018 at 02:47 PM 0

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Answer by singingstranger · Jul 17, 2018 at 03:57 PM

I have never made this myself but perhaps if you made the condition of it being on or off attached to a bool? So basically:

void Start(){

lampon=false;

}

void Update(){ if (pickuplamp=true){ lampon=true; } } ?

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aser133gaming · Jul 17, 2018 at 05:18 PM 0

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Yea man but im that type of newbie can u explain it more? xD

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