Craig Lang - Game Design: Alpha

Alpha

I was given by my environment artist an updated greybox for the level. I was also given constructive feedback from the last greybox level from other game designers. Listening to their comments I adjusted the cameras to allow easier movement around the level. I also made sure all cameras have ignore raycast activated, as the target interfered and got stuck on the triggers.

I then started to work on my inventory. I first created inventory slots by creating images and placing them on the far side of the level. I added myinventorymenuscript and event triggers. For each event trigger I attached the script and activated each void function within the script (down, drag and up). This allows the items to be dragged to and from the inventory.  I also created an empty object and attached the myinventoryscript. This identifies where to send the sprite images to. 

I then created a mykeyscript, mylockedscript and DoorUnlocked scripts. This allows the keys to only work when they are picked up and dragged from the inventory and onto the locked objects. 

 

I then created a grabbanddropscript which allows the player to pick up objects.

After I got the inventory working I wanted to improve the interaction with my keys. I wanted the key to appear and rotate in front of the camera to allow the player to examine what they have collected. 

I created and attached a empty object with a trigger box onto the main camera. I then created this script to allow the object when called to appear in the trigger box.

However I found out that by calling the object in the keyscript instead it was much easier and worked a lot better as well. 

I then added a rotation script which allowed the object to rotate.

 I then moved onto the pause button. I created a pause button and added a pause script. However I struggled with pausing and resuming the game successfully. I made sure that Time.timescale = 1 whenever the scene was loaded. I made sure of this by writing that line of code in the menuoptions script. I turned timescale to 0 in the pause function and that created a successful pause function. I also stumbled across LoadLevelAdditiveasync. this allows me to load my pause scene over my current scene. This is good for this scene as my pause scene contains little components and data. However if my pause scene contained more assets it will eat up memory and slow the game down.

For the volume  I wanted to be able to turn the volume on/off throughout the game. I wrote this script and attached to a prefab. The prefab also contains the main camera and it's child components. The reason why I had to create a prefab was because the script calls for the main camera's audiolistener and turns it on/off when called. I have to add the prefab to all scenes otherwise the script will not be able to identify the audiolistener.