2D Character Invisible To Enemies

Questions & Answers
1

I am working on a stealth side scrolling game for my comp. sci class and I’m somewhat of a newbie in terms of programming in Unity, so far I have the game set up so that the enemy walks in a range but I have trouble making the player character invisible when he presses the up button in order to “hide” from enemies.

So the enemy should pass through when the player is invisible (upon pressing up, of course), and if the player is caught when they are not invisible, then the game is over.

The tutorials on the site are plenty helpful but they don’t really cover things like basic side scrolling games with no health system in place or stealth mechanics in a 2D game. I wasn’t sure if I had to make my player character a collider trigger or whatever it is called in order to have the enemies pass through him or what.

2

Here’s an example

public BoxCollider2D mybounds;

void Start()
	{
		mybounds = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D> ();
	}

	void Update ()
	{

		if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.Space)) {
			mybounds.isTrigger = true;
		}
		if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Backspace)){
			mybounds.isTrigger = false;
		}
	
	}

	void OnCollisionEnter2D (Collision2D other)
	{
		if (other.gameObject.tag == "Enemy") {
			Destroy (gameObject);

	}
		
	}
	
}

Make sure your player has a boxcollider2D and your enemies are tagged “Enemy”.