Implementing Shooting

1. For every wall's box surface enable the 7th bit of the Intersection Mask, and call it BulletIntersection.

   

2. Create a new C# component and call it Projectile. Open your IDE and copy the following code. Save your code in the IDE to ensure it's automatic compilation on switching back to UnigineEditor.

   Source code (C#)

   public class Projectile : Component
   {
   	// the speed of bullet movement
   	public float speed = 30.0f;
   
   	// asset file that contains the hit effect
   	public AssetLinkNode bulletHitEffect;
   
   	static WorldIntersectionNormal intersection;
   
   	void Init()
   	{
   		if (intersection == null)
   			intersection = new WorldIntersectionNormal();
   	}
   	
   	void Update()
   	{
   		vec3 oldPos = node.WorldPosition;
   		vec3 dir = node.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.Y);
   
   		// calculate the next position of the bullet
   		vec3 newPos = oldPos + dir * speed * Game.IFps;
   		
   		// check intersection with other objects
   		Unigine.Object obj = World.GetIntersection(oldPos, newPos, ~0, intersection); //all mask bits are set to 1
   		if (obj)
   		{
   			// spawn a bullet at the hit point
   			Node hitEffect = bulletHitEffect.Load(intersection.Point);
   			// orient the effect towards the hit direction 
   			hitEffect.SetWorldDirection(intersection.Normal, vec3.UP, MathLib.AXIS.Y);
   
   			// add impulse to an object if it is a body rigid 
   			BodyRigid rb = obj.BodyRigid;
   			if (rb != null)
   			{
   				rb.Frozen = false;
   				rb.AddWorldImpulse(obj.WorldPosition, node.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.Y) * speed);
   			}
   
   			// remove the bullet
   			node.DeleteLater();
   
   			return;
   		}
   		else
   		{
   			// move the bullet to a new position
   			node.WorldPosition = newPos;
   		}
   	}
   }

3. As the Life Time of the bullet runs out we should delete it by simply calling the DeleteLater() method. Create a new C# component and call it Destroy. Open your IDE, add the following code, save and switch to UnigineEditor to compile it.
   Source code (C#)

   public class Destroy : Component
   {
   	// object's lifetime
   	public float lifeTime = 10.0f;
   
   	 float startTime = 0.0f;
   
   	void Init()
   	{
   		// remember initialization time of an object
   		startTime = Game.Time;
   	}
   
   	void Update()
   	{
   		// wait until the life time ends and delete the object
   		if (Game.Time - startTime > lifeTime)
   			node.DeleteLater();
   	}
   }

4. Drag programming_quick_start\robot\bullet\bullet.node from the Asset Browser into the Viewport and click Edit in the Reference section of the Parameters window to make modifications. Add a Destroy component to the child ObjectMeshStatic bullet node and set the Life Time to 5.0.

   

5. Next, drag the programming_quick_start\robot\bullet_hit\bullet_hit.node from the Asset Browser into the Viewport, click Edit on the Parameters window, add the Destroy component to the bullet_hit's NodeDummy and to the LightOmni. Set Life Time values to 10.0 and 0.05 seconds respectively.

   

6. Then select the bullet_hit Node Reference and click Apply in the Reference section to save all changes made to it.

7. Then, add a Projectile component to the child ObjectMeshStatic bullet of the bullet Node Reference. Assign the bullet_hit node from the Asset Browser window to the Bullet Hit Effect field.

   

8. Now disable Intersection detection for the bullet to avoid the bullet detecting intersections with itself. Select the bullet_mat surface and uncheck the Intersection option for it.
9. Save changes to the bullet Node Reference, by selecting it and clicking Apply in the Reference section or simply press Ctrl+S hotkey to save all changed assets.
10. Now you can delete bullet and bullet_hit nodes from the world as we will spawn it via code.

Let's create special spawn nodes using Dummy Nodes with no visual representation. Their positions will be used as initial bullet positions.

1. Select the robot Node Reference in the World Nodes window and click Edit in the Reference section of the Parameters window.
2. Right-click on the child robot ObjectMeshSkinned in the World Nodes window to add a child node. Choose Create->Node->Dummy and position it in the Viewport near the end of the left gun. The Y axis (green arrow) must point in the fire direction, since Unigine uses the right-handed Cartesian coordinate system.

3. Rename the Dummy Node as "left_bullet_spawn".

   

4. Create a spawn point for the right gun the same way and call it "right_bullet_spawn".
5. To spawn bullets at run-time via API on Right Mouse Button click, add the following code to the PlayerController component. We use AssetLinkNode to refer to the bullet node file. Save your code in an IDE to ensure it's automatic recompilation on switching back to UnigineEditor.
   PlayerController.cs

   public class PlayerController : Component
   {	
   
   //========================== NEW - BEGIN ===============================
   	bool isNextLeft = false;
   
   	// mouse fire button 
   	public Input.MOUSE_BUTTON mouseFireKey = Input.MOUSE_BUTTON.RIGHT;
   
   	// asset file that contains the bullet
   	public AssetLinkNode bullet;
   
   	public Node leftSpawn, rightSpawn;
   //========================== NEW - END ===============================
   
   	Player player;
   
   	BodyRigid rigid;
   
   	vec3 pos;
   
   	//a WorldIntersection object to store the information about the intersection
   	WorldIntersection intersection = new WorldIntersection();
   
   	void Init()
   	{
   		player = Game.Player; 
   
   		rigid = node.ObjectBodyRigid;
   		rigid.AngularScale = new vec3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); // restricting the rotation
   		rigid.LinearScale = new vec3(1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // restricting Z movement
   		rigid.MaxLinearVelocity = 8.0f; // clamping the max linear velocity
   	}
   
   //========================== NEW - BEGIN ===============================
   	void Update() 
   	{
   		if (Input.IsMouseButtonDown(mouseFireKey) && bullet.IsFileExist)
   		{
   			// load the bullet and set its position 
   			if (isNextLeft)
   				bullet.Load(rightSpawn.WorldTransform);
   			else
   				bullet.Load(leftSpawn.WorldTransform);
   
   			// alternate between the left and the right gun
   			isNextLeft = !isNextLeft;
   		}
   
   		// press ESC button to close the game
   		if (Input.IsKeyDown(Input.KEY.ESC))
   		{
   			App.Exit();
   		}
   	}
   //========================== NEW - END ===============================
   
   	void UpdatePhysics() 
   	{
   		// forward
   		if (Input.IsKeyPressed(Input.KEY.W))
   			Move(player.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.Y)); 
   
   		// backward
   		if (Input.IsKeyPressed(Input.KEY.S))
   			Move(player.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.NY)); 
   		// left
   		if (Input.IsKeyPressed(Input.KEY.A))
   			Move(player.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.NX)); 
   
   		// right
   		if (Input.IsKeyPressed(Input.KEY.D))
   			Move(player.GetWorldDirection(MathLib.AXIS.X)); 
   
   		// finding the positions of the cursor and the point moved 100 units away in the camera forward direction 
   		ivec2 mouse = Input.MouseCoord;
   		vec3 p0 = player.WorldPosition;
   		vec3 p1 = p0 + new vec3(player.GetDirectionFromScreen(mouse.x, mouse.y)) * 100; 
   
   		// casting a ray from p0 to p1 to find the first intersected object
   		Unigine.Object obj = World.GetIntersection(p0, p1, 1, intersection); // the first bit of the intersection mask is set to 1, the rest are 0s
   
   		// finding the intersection position, creating a transformation matrix to face this position and setting the transofrm matrix for the body preserving angular and linear velocities
   		if (obj)
   		{
   			pos = intersection.Point;
   			pos.z = rigid.Transform.Translate.z; // project the position vector to the Body Rigid pivot plane
   			mat4 transform = MathLib.SetTo(rigid.Transform.Translate, pos, vec3.UP, MathLib.AXIS.Y);
   			rigid.SetPreserveTransform(transform);
   		}
   	}
   
   	// moving the rigid body with linear impulse in the specified direction
   	void Move(vec3 direction) 
   	{
   		//directon is a normalized camera axis vector 
   		rigid.AddLinearImpulse(direction);
   	}
   }

6. Drag left_bullet_spawn and right_bullet_spawn nodes to the corresponding fields of the PlayerController component of the robot node (ObjectMeshSkinned). And assign the bullet.node to the Bullet Path field.

   

7. Save changes to the world, go to File->Save World or press Ctrl+S hotkey.