Phase > Pattern > Projectile

[still bane]

so

I set the name to be the idea

one Phase script has a list of patterns

and each pattern has a set projectile

not a list of projectiles yet, im not getting too fancy

I'm not sure how I'd go about using for yet

its gonna be a bit more advanced than what im used to

but probably not that hard

@south patrol @tropic onyx

[south patrol]

For/foreach loop is very basic, you should learn to use it right away

[still bane]

i know how to use them in general data management

but I've never had to use a for loop in a, say, Update() method before

where it gets ran every frame

I got the basics down with like c++ mathematical questions

and using them for object pooling also got me some practice

[hexed quartz]

it'll loop until the end of the loop every time update() is called (every frame)

if you want to do something like "spawn a bullet, wait 0.1s, repeat 9x" then you're better off using a loop inside coroutine rather than Update()

[still bane]

yeah

[still bane]

I mean

its more like

I have 3 types of patterns

one fires projA, another fires projB and third fires projC

projA gets fired every second, projB gets fired every 2 seconds, and projC gets fired every 3 seconds

on second 1, only projA gets fired, but on second 2 I need to fire both projA and projB

so I essentially need to loop through every pattern every frame, check if their cooldown has expired, and if it did, fire them

[south patrol]

I would add a float on those shot patterns that stores the last time it was fired

Then in update you would just check if enough time has passed since its last shot

If enough time passed, update its last shot time to current time and shoot

[still bane]

thats what i do so far

yeah

I was also thinking of like coroutines

but kind of recursive coroutines

where I tell the coroutine to fire a projectile in a certain way once after x seconds, and at the end just call itself to fire again after x seconds

But I never used coroutines before and I think the method that im currently using and you suggested might be better

[south patrol]

Sure, that would work

[still bane]

@south patrol yeah ill just use this method

how can I create like a dropdown menu

like having a variable that can make it so it's either a shotgun pattern, a spray pattern or some other pattern

[south patrol]

Inside the pattern itself, or in the component?

[still bane]

inside the pattern

[south patrol]

If you want a "dropdown" variable inside the pattern, just create an Enum

[still bane]

like this

idk how id do that though

[south patrol]

public enum PatternType
{
  Shotgun,
  Spray,
}```

Then inside the pattern class you would add a field of the type PatternType

Or a property

[still bane]

also idk if using scriptableobjects would be better

[south patrol]

// Field
public PatternType patternType;
// Or property
[Field: SerializeField] public PatternType patternType { get; private set; }```

[still bane]

probably not because i wont be switching between scenes

also hold on

its not what i wanted xd

ill just have 2 lists

one for shotguns and one for sprays

so

i want to loop through the list of shotgunpatterns

and do shit

oh god

I can have functions in structs

I can essentially have the function for firing the projectiles inside my struct

this is so unclean

but i think its better

I can just call shotgunPatterns[i].Shotgun() whenever shotgunPatterns[i].lifeTime >= 0f

is that fine?

oh, yeah

im also gonna need a list of phases later....

[south patrol]

Seems ok

It's up to you to have the logic (the method) in the struct or in the class itself

[still bane]

uhhh

a problem does occour though

am I seriously gonna need a reference for the object that the script is on?

[south patrol]

There you go. You need to either pass the transform/gameobject as a parameter to the struct, or just do the logic in the patternhandler script

I would probably just do it in the patternhandler

[still bane]

i do it in the struct itself

[south patrol]

Ok and how does the struct know what transform is?

[still bane]

thing is itd require a lot of weird ass modifications for it to work

[still bane]

I wanted it to use the transform of the gameobject that its on

[south patrol]

The struct itself has no idea what gameobject's component it is on

[still bane]

yeah

[south patrol]

As I said, you need to pass the gameobject as a parameter to the Shotgun function, for example

[still bane]

ig I'll just pass a reference for the gameobject its on

holy fuck its so cool

this is some satisfying stuff after having to attach 9 of the same component on one gameobject

[south patrol]

Yep

[still bane]

its also funny because I have a list of lists of 2 lists of parameters