This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by Calum Slee
Adding some stronger feedback when the Player takes damage, not only feels more immersive, but acts as a great distraction to create both panic and focus. Let’s add it to the Space Shooter!
Rather than manipulating the Camera within the Player Script, I added a CameraShake Script to the Camera object. On experimenting with moving the transform position of the camera, I also decided I didn’t want the background overlay to appear to change positions, so I made it a child object of the camera, now when I shake the camera, the background will follow the camera’s position.
In the Camera Shake Script, I needed a public method so I can call it from the Player Script when damage is taken. This public method simply starts a Coroutine.
First, I need a reference to the default position, so it can be returned to after shaking. This is just a Vector3 variable set to the transform.position.
Then I want a shake length that can be changed in the Inspector, for now I will set it to 0.3f.
Lastly I can create a float for shake time, which is equal to Time.time (the current time) plus the shake length.
Now I could create a while loop that runs while Time.time is less than the Shake Time, so in the current instance, for 0.3 seconds.
In this loop, I want to set the transform position to a random position each frame. Randomising each element of the Vector3 ends up quite long, so instead I created a return type method to get a Random Number.
Back in the while loop I created two floats, one for X, and one for Y, then assigned them to the RandomNumber method. Afterwards, I could pass these two variables in to the new Vector3.
Once the while loop is finished, I want to return the position back to the default.
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This content originally appeared on Level Up Coding - Medium and was authored by Calum Slee
Calum Slee | Sciencx (2021-06-08T15:55:26+00:00) Space Shooter Challenge: Camera Shake. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/06/08/space-shooter-challenge-camera-shake/
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