koobas.hobune.stream
Speed Pill... Variable referencing and adjusting temporarily
Hello good people!
In the platform game that I'm creating I have what I'm calling a speed pill which will temporarily boost the speed of the character I have for 5 seconds
What I need to do is on the speed pill item apply a script with an OnTriggerEnter function that adjusts the speed variable in the script called PlayerController to 20 for 5 seconds then it returns to 10. My problem is that I don't know how to do that, as I don't know how to refer to a variable in another script as my programming skills aren't so good.
So far I have the following -
function OnTriggerEnter(otherObj: Collider)
{
if (otherObj.tag == "Player")
{
//here needs to be a function that adjusts the speed
//variable in PlayerController from 10 to 20 for 5 seconds
}
}
Your help is greatly appreciated, Thank you
Also here is the PlayerContoller script if any adjustments need to be made to it
var speed : float = 6.0;
var jumpSpeed : float = 8.0;
var gravity : float = 20.0;
private var dead = false;
private var moveDirection : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;
function Update ()
{
var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
if (controller.isGrounded)
{
moveDirection = Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, 0);
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= speed;
if (Input.GetButton ("Jump"))
{
moveDirection.y = jumpSpeed;
}
}
moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
controller.$$anonymous$$ove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}
function Speed(go:GameObject){
go.GetComponent(PlayerController).speed = 20;
yield WaitForSeconds(5f);
go.gameObject.GetComponent(PlayerController).speed = 20;
}
then call it when you get the collision:
function OnTriggerEnter(otherObj: Collider)
{
if (otherObj.tag == "Player")
{
Speed(otherObj.gameObject);
}
}
Add the Speed function to to the same script where you have OnTriggerEnter. Then add Speed(otherObj.gameObject); into your OnTriggerEnter.
just tested this and it works perfectly... thank you ever so much. you are a champ! :)
Dont suppose you could point me in the right direction of how to get my character double jumping and climbing? those are my next steps
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/DoubleJumpController may help with double jumping, but it is for a 2d game.
Here is a solution but it isn't the best way to do it.
function OnTriggerEnter(otherObj: Collider) { if (otherObj.tag == "Player") {
PillEffect();
}
}
function PillEffect()
{
PlayerController.speed = 20;
yield WaitForSeconds(5); //Causes this fucntion to wait for 5 seconds
PlayerController.speed = 10;
}
In your PlayerControllerScript put the word Static public in front of var speed; This will allow you access this variable and change it.
static public var speed;
This will not work - you can only access static variables in static methods, and will break PlayerController because Update() is not static.
I pretty sure your wrong about that. I am able access static variables in any function regardless of whether it is a static function or not.
Script A
public class ScriptA : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour
{
static public int speedA;
void Awake()
{
speedA = 20;
}
}
Script B
public class ScriptB : $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour
{
private int speedB;
void Update()
{
speedB = ScriptA.speedA;
print (speedB);
}
}
This works for me. I am able to access "speed" from ScriptA inside the update function in ScriptB. This is what I was trying to explain in my answer so could you please fix the down-vote
Sorry, I wasn't aware that this worked in javascript, as I am used to C#.
You'll want to use Coroutines to do this. Unity Coroutines
Coroutines allow you to execute a bit of code and then yield (wait) for an amount of time before continuing execution. I am not so familiar with unityscript, so this might not compile but it would look something like this
function SpeedUp(float time)
{
var player = otherObj.GetComponent.<PlayerController>();
player.speed = 20;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
player.speed = 10;
}
Note that if you were to hit a second speed pill before the 5 seconds was up it would not further increase your speed. This may or may not be what you want to happen in this situation.
