Unity Game Development Blueprints

Shooting behavior

The next thing we will do is give our player the ability to shoot:

1. Open up the PlayerBehaviour script. In the top section where the other variables are present, we need to add some additional ones that we'll use:

   // The laser we will be shooting
   public Transform laser;
   
   // How far from the center of the ship should the laser be
   public float laserDistance = .2f;
   
   // How much time (in seconds) we should wait before 
   // we can fire again
   public   float   timeBetweenFires = .3f;
   
   // If value is less than or equal 0, we can fire
   private float timeTilNextFire = 0.0f;
   
   // The buttons that we can use to shoot lasers
   public List<KeyCode> shootButton;

   One thing you may have noticed is that we have a laser variable that is of the type Transform. This ...