This game is planned to be somewhat similar to vampire survivors but 3D and all that good stuff.

Horde Game

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Worked on the enemy attacking system for the generator and now it's all operational which is nice! I still wanna make it a bit more cleanly done (and I think Ill end up switching to a state approach to deal with that).

Today I worked on changing the movement system of the enemies to use velocity and I removed the use of the MoveTowards function since it seemed to cause some issues, and instead I'm just calculating the vector manually. It seems to be somewhat working for now, but I still want to do more testing before I'm 100% sure it's good. I think the detection is still a bit wacky.

Today was mainly working on bug fixing some more with the generator and enemy UI/movement that I've found. Currently there's some weird stuff going on with enemies going through the ground and flying through the air even though they have colliders and gravity on. So far they aren't completely fixed, but I think it's something related to how I'm moving the enemies around and follow detection and all that.

Got all the health and health regen, as well as enemy damaging all working correctly along with some simple UI to display the player being dead. It's pretty rudimentary, but all the basic systems are working for health related stuff now. All that's left is getting projectiles to correctly damage enemies when hit, and to get generator damage working.  (also I forgot again about a thanksgiving post, I think Ill just end up making a quick turkey model to replace my hitscan model for a placeholder since it's already kinda hard to see when it's the same color/shape as my environment).

Today I got started with getting my generator script started (aka the main objective for the enemies) and getting both generator and player damage from enemies. I just thought of a new idea on what I could do for the game, I'm curious to hear anyone's thoughts on it. I was thinking instead of the main objective causing the player to lose when it's destroyed (similarly to what would happen if all players died), I was thinking maybe it could be a "generator" that powers the lighting in the level, and once it gets destroyed everything goes dark and much harder (thinking of lethal company once night hits, except not necessarily as completely impossible to fight). Then the generator could either be fixed or regenerate after some time, but would require players to have to live long enough for that to happen. Not 100% if that's the route I want to go, but I was thinking about it today as a more unique twist on it that makes it more interesting, and allows it to still keep the game feeling like similar games where player death is the cause of truly losing the game.

Today I got the player radius thing working, I figured out that the reason that the layer stuff wasn't working for me was because I had to set which layer I wanted through bits rather than setting the integer. So basically since I wanted the 6th layer active, I had to set the 6th bit to be active instead of setting it to specifically 6. Meaning it would be represented as (000100000), showing the 6th bit from the right being set to true. At least that's what I understand of it. It's kinda neat that they did it that way since I learned about bit shifting a while back but it never came up in an actual scenario until now. Anyways, I wasn't able to get everything perfect with  the detection behavior, since i want enemies to have better choosing once they lock onto to something, or if they see something in view, but for now it's a good start.

So for today I got the enemy movement mostly fixed for now and I got it setup to allow them to be damaged and killed with the bullets, as well as a spawner for them (although as you'll see, there was some special stuff going on there lol). I was able to fix it, but I thought I'd still include it for the clip since when I first did it I got quite spooked with my screen being flooded with enemies lol.

Worked more on the enemy AI today, and mainly focused on the movement portion of it. I also found a bug that I believe is related to how I implemented jumping which is causing me to fall extremely slow when it involves falling that isn't from jumps, and also there's a weird slow fall that happens when I get very close to the surface in which I am falling from when jumping does occur. So I tried working on fixing that as well (unsuccessfully as of now though).

Today I got started on enemy AI by working on an abstract class to handle most of the general stuff, and then I started working on a test enemy to get the specifics all functioning. Not completely functional yet, but tomorrow it should be.

I've been going back and forth of if I want the game to have enemies trying to kill the player, or if the enemies should be trying to kill some core or generator of sorts that the players need to protect. I'm slightly leaning to the latter option since 1) it's a bit more unique to the usual COD zombies style and 2) it's similar to the 2D version of this game I made years ago, so it'd make more sense if I really wanted to make this a successor of sorts. But I'm still thinking about it. (technically i could just have two different gamemodes too down the line if I wanted both)

Got full-auto finally working today with no crashes anymore! 🎉 

I had to handle it in fixed-update in order to fix that. Also for the beam projectile on here, it's just for visual clarity for now since this'll be a hitscan and it'll shoot faster than that.

Today got a good amount done with fixing the bugs I had when doing my testing from earlier on in development. I now moved on to trying to implement full auto shooting, however so far my implementation has just been causing game crashes (even though theoretically it shouldn't be at this point). I think it may be something to do with how I'm using the "newer" input system to try and achieve it. I may have to go into the input settings to deal with holding down mouse clicks. Overall decent progress though.

Got started on the hitscan weapons today to get them working with my weapon manager and new player shooting system. Got most of it finished up, but now I really need to go back and fix some of the bugs I was having with the weapon manager before that i had put off since now it's actually causing issues with shooting since they are getting instantiated with the wrong gun somehow. Shouldn't be too hard to fix hopefully.

Finally got the shooting fixed today so it's aiming towards the crosshair! Unfortunately though my unity is bugging like crazy.

Not much to show today; I worked more on trying to fix the bullets not being centered on my crosshair position. My current idea is to rotate the bullet to look towards the center position from where my camera is currently looking at/rotated and then apply force after that rotation in the forward direction of the bullet. So far it's not working as planned lol.

Added in a crosshair today and began trying to fix the issue that my bullets now are not centered on my crosshair. It may partially have to do with my projectile being a bit wonky, but I think it also has to do with my instantiation setup.

Got the weapon switching finally working today! I will have to slightly change how adding weapons to the inventory works once I get in weapon pickups created, but hopefully my current implementation of weapon switching should theoretically be fine with that.

More done today with the weapon switching function. It's not operational yet, but it's pretty close. The way it's going to work is that it'll take the input action's last character (1 or 2) and then use that as an index to change the weapon based on my weapon manager's list, and properly switch out the weapon through there. I would have gotten it all done today, but my shooting broke again so I had to fix that as well (I had mistimed when I was adding the weapon, so it caused some nulls to get shown when I tried to get the current weapon before it was instantiated).

Everything works now as expected. I don't have any visual ingame indicators for reloading or anything yet (and the weapon is just for testing also), but it works which is nice! I also got started on working on weapon switching and a simple weapon inventory system so that the player can have, and switch between, various weapons.

Wasn't able to get a whole lot done today with all the other school projects I gotta do this term, but I did continue with working on the weapon manager today. Still not operational yet for how I want it to be, but it's getting closer to a useable state. I may end up doing a little bit of research into weapon managers for unity as well to make sure I'm on the right track, but all should be good soon. In a few weeks once all my other projects for school are done, Ill be able to pick up the pace a lot more too.

Still stuck on getting the reload perfectly working as I realize I have to redo my weapon manager since the old one won't work really with my new setup for weapon creations, so I mostly worked on writing that partially up. But I thought I'd still show how it looks so far with the jumping looking a bit better from last time and the ammo setup now working.

Today I began adding in the reloading and weapon upgrading functionality into the code! Nothing interesting to really show yet for it, but just some basics I gotta get done for normal gun functionality (although I guess upgrading isn't necessarily "normal" for a gun to do lol).

Got all the issues I found yesterday fixed with my gun manager setup, I was having some weird stack overflows, but they are fixed now!

Got quite a bit more work done with my shooting system (coding wise). Getting a weapon manager figured out and further working on my abstract and interfaces to work all correctly so I can switch out my shooting class to utilize them now.

Still couldn't get jumping to work correctly today, but here's my progress in general so far with the movement. To be honest, this mechanic (not including the infinite use of jumping) could be kinda neat for a glide mechanic at some point if maybe an item gives that capability. Always interesting to try and find a way to turn a bug into a feature lol

Got running working today, I found the issue had to do with using .started instead of .performed for the input action I have set for running. Additionally for the jumping, I got it triggering now because of that very same issue I had with running, however some weird physics things are starting to go on with my player (mainly with glitching around and falling super slow). So ill need to see about fixing those next. Ill have a clip tomorrow showing my progress in general over the past few days.

Got started on working on other movement mechanics like jumping (and getting running working again in my new input setup). Haven't gotten it working so far, but all the code for doing each action should be fine, just the trigger portion isn't working.

Got a good bit of programming done today for the gun setup to make it much easier to create new guns down the line. I utilized a gun interface for the initial functions, and then branched that off into a projectile interface (and soon hitscan) and that respectively into a projectile abstract class that inherits the projectile interface. This'll make most of the basic coding done in the abstract classes, while I should theoretically be able to reference the initial gun interface of any gun I create to call it's functions, such as shoot. I also fixed the whole barrel thing yesterday so it moves with the camera instead of just the player, now allowing the player to shoot vertically as well.

Got everything working today with the camera movement, and I got started working on the hitscan version for shooting! It's more of a basic concept of the actual version since I'll want there to be bullet spread and variance and shoot vertically as well, but it's a start to figuring it all out.

Today I redid some of the code on my project to be a bit cleaner and learned of (supposedly) a better way to do mouse movement through the input system. I created an input manager to deal with all of it and apparently you can create an action that records the mouse movement so that everything can be done under the same input system umbrella. I unfortunately haven't been able to get the camera stuff working just yet after the change, but everything else is working fine currently.

Happy Halloween everyone! I didn't have time to make a halloween render like I've done before, but to stick with the tradition of having my posts holiday themed, I created a pumpkin model to use for testing my shooting mechanics. Here's how it looks so far. I'll probably have a mix of hitscan and projectile based shooting, but I thought I'd start with projectile based since I wanted to incorporate the pumpkin lol.

Today just got done with player movement and tomorrow Ill work on getting some basic shooting functionality in. Even though It's pretty simple right now, I've enjoyed going back to the basics for unity and just coding up stuff like I did a couple years ago on Zomborg Assault (in the first year of being in the server). Good times!

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