#doing gamedev

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Guys I fixed my script and now my camera is disabled while the game is paused. :)

Turns out GetComponent is a particularly roundabout way of doing what I want to begin with and just declaring the script as a variable means you can assign it via inspector which is a far sight easier let me tell you.

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In today’s gamedev adventures, GameController.GetComponent<gamecontroller>(); resisted 3+ hours of troubleshooting and eventually reduced me literal, water-coming-from-my-face, frustrated crying. :(

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So I’ve got the platforms set up where after the player passes through the hole in the center, the hole closes up so you don’t have to avoid it anymore. Great.

Except the hole closes instantly and I spent most of today’s devtime trying to figure out how the hell to make it close slowly. I’m closing it by changing the transform of a closing object and I can’t figure out any way to change it tiny, tiny step by tiny, tiny step at a speed that isn’t near-instantaneous. Like, the individual steps are all Time.deltatime sized but it’s being driven by a while loop that performs the iterations so quickly you don’t even see the change (or it does them all at once and then returns the finished transform as a result? Shit, I bet that’s it and it’s going to be an utter bitch to code around).

Anyway, platforms are functional but aesthetically displeasing. Tomorrow I’m going to to work on level design for level one and consider if there are any additional mechanics I want to throw into levels 2 and 3 (spoilers, yes).

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Logic Success

In today’s little wins, I figured out that my if statement was failing because I was telling it to “=“ my player velocity (set player velocity) instead of “==“ my player velocity (check player velocity).

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Minor bugfix where I turned off being able to jump infinite times my pressing space repeatedly.

Also a WORKING MOTHERFUCKING CAMERA that circles around the player AND the player controls still work perfectly in reference the the camera orientation AND pressing esc brings up a pause menu that can take you back into the game, to the main menu, or quit the game.

Next project is mechanics of platforms and end of level logistics.

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YES I made player controls that move you relative to the camera position fuuuuck yes!!

As the argument for a transform.Translate function, instead of using a Space.Whatever or leaving it null (which defaults to Space.Self) you can use Camera.main.transform which will use the space relative to the camera’s transform. So in my case:

//Gets front/back and side/side input and changes player position using the camera's transform as the reference space float moveForward = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

float moveSide = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");

Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (moveSide, 0.0F, moveForward);

transform.Translate (movement * speed, Camera.main.transform);

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Kicking ass doing shitty beginner gamedev

TODAY! I actually started working on fulfilling my resolution to do gamedev in December while I was on vacation.

TODAY! I outlined my project goals, basic gameplay idea, mapped out my gameflow logic, and created an entire functioning menu tree, complete with intro splash screen.

I am accomplish.