AI-trigger-shot-problem

Unity Engine
1

hey guys, i´m trying let a turret shoot at the player, when he/she/it^^ enters specific range (the radius of the collider…)…when the player is out of range(collider), the shootings should stop
so i added a sphere collider to my turret and enabled the trigger.

the trigger works so far…enabled…disabled - ok.
the turret is targeting the player - ok
…the turret doesn´t start to shoot…it just starts, when i´m 10 meters away from it, but the collider is set to a radius of 100 meters. :?:

var LookAtTarget:Transform;
var damp =5;
var LaserPrefab: Transform;
var savedTime = 0;
var speed = 6;
var aggrocheck = false;

function OnTriggerEnter  (other : Collider) {
	if(other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
		aggrocheck = true;
}

function OnTriggerExit  (other : Collider) {
	if(other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
		aggrocheck = false;
}
function OnTriggerStay  (other : Collider) {
	if(other.gameObject.tag == "Player")
		aggrocheck = true;
}

function Update () 
{	
		if(LookAtTarget  aggrocheck)
			{
			
				var rotate = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position);
				transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotate, Time.deltaTime * damp);
				var interval:int = Time.time;
				var oddeven = (interval/2);
				
				if(oddeven)
				{
					Shoot(interval);
				}
			}

}

function Shoot(interval)
{	
		if(interval != savedTime)
		{
		print ("shot");
		var laser = Instantiate(LaserPrefab, transform.Find("turretSpawnPoint").transform.position,transform.rotation);
		
		laser.rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * speed);
		savedTime=interval;
		}

}
2

Well i’m a C# coder but it looks OK to me. I’d say that your triggers look to be fine so look at what’s happening in your update, put a print / debug statement inside Updates

if(LookAtTarget  aggrocheck) 
{

Check to see if this is happening at 100 meters or at 10 meters, assuming it is happening at 100 meters then put one inside your

function Shoot(interval) 
{

Just basically see what areas of your code are being stepped into when it’s not firing correctly, hopefully that’ll point you in the right direction.

3

the turret colliders are working correctly (inrange —> they aim at me), when i leave the range (print out of range - they don´t aim at me)…when i start shooting the turret, the lasers disappear when hitting the turret colliders…and the turrets lasers disappear too…

when i disable the trigger in the inspector the player is stopped by the magic invisible collider wall;) but the lasers not…strange…

the only tags the script uses to check is the Player tag…

4

ok, forget it:) i´ve found a better solution:)

function Update () 
{

    var gos : GameObject[];
    gos = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Player");
    //assumes only one player
    var thePlayer:GameObject = gos[0];
    var dist = Vector3.Distance(thePlayer.transform.position,transform.position);
   
    if(dist<=seeDistance){
        isChasing= true;
    } else {
        isChasing=false;
    }
}

function Update () 
{		
		/*if(aggrocheck)
		{*/
		if (EnemyAI.isChasing)
		{
			if(LookAtTarget )
				{
					print ("in range");
					var rotate = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position);
					transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotate, Time.deltaTime * damp);
					var interval:int = Time.time;
					var oddeven = (interval/2);
					
					if(oddeven)
					{
						Shoot(interval);
					}
					
			}	
		}
		else
						print ("out of range");
		
}

just set the seedistance to any range, works fine to me, without any trigger stuff