Week 3 - Enemies and Interactions

This week I worked on a few things: 

• Added multiple NPCs
• Added enemies / an enemy spawner
• A health system, for both player and enemies 
• Added Walking animation
• Added Walls / Barriers to the world
• Fixed Player/NPC layering
• Fixed shooting/walking during dialogue

NPCs: 

This week I had quite a lot of things to focus on regarding the NPCs, 

The first thing I worked on was fixing the sorting layer on the player and NPCs, this was an easy fix, as I just created a new sorting layer for NPCs + Player, so that the player would no longer disappear behind NPCs. 

The next thing I wanted to do was fix the player being able to shoot during dialogue, To do this I made a small script to handle if the player was in dialogue or not using a public static bool, this script then listens for the dialogue runner start and end events when a yarn script is triggered.  I was then able to add this bool as a condition to my shooting and movement script to stop the player from being able to do both of these if a yarn script is playing!

After this I worked on adding a second NPC, which was easy as I already had the scripts from the first one, I just had to apply them to a new game object and create a new yarn script and portrait!

New walking animation + walls:

This week I was able to mostly finish up the walking animation for the player (aside from the north/up direction as its still being drawn) 

To do this I followed the tutorial from class, and created a blend tree to swap directions and also between walking/idle states!

I found when creating my build the walking animation broke, as I was using two different sprite sheets for walking and idle animations. To fix this I created a Sprite Altus and added them all together, thanks to the help of Chloe a past student!!!!!! 

After this I added colliders to the walls, so the player cant leave the scene, again following the tutorial from class! 

Enemies: 

The last thing I did this week was work on the Enemies. To do this I used the enemy + enemy  spawner prefabs from the tutorial as well as the seek script. Altering the spawner slightly to spawn when the player enters a collider on the spawner set as a trigger, and to self destruct when all enemies are killed, so the spawner cant be retriggered.  

Along with this I also added a health system to the player, and created a health bar using the unity UI slider! 

Feedback: 

This week, The feedback I received was: 

• good progression has been made
• no up animation (a current wip)
• make player collider smaller, to stop getting suck on the walls so early, 

Still need to add from previous feedback: 

• Better text features during dialogue
• F button for continue rather then on screen UI button