Clicking a HUD button to move player or object.

Unity Engine
1

I am using C# code and the 2D Toolkit.

Hey guys, I’m a college student working on a group project. We are creating a game similar to gradius or life force. The team decided to use a HUD because they want to move the game into an iphone/android console. (using mouse click for now)

Right now I have created a playable demo using the keyboard buttons. The player can move up and down, shoot enemy ships, die, pause, sound, and even maintain a highscore. The problem I am having is that I want the player to be able to click the HUD Up button that I created to move up, the same for the Down button. Unfortunately I am running into many errors in my coding, I am still learning.

I imagine it would be somewhere along the lines of using:

void OnMouseDown()
{
???
}

I have a fully functional pause button that can be clicked, but I just can’t seem to get the code for movement right. Any help or maybe a tutorial reference?

2

Is it a GUI Button? Or is it a GUI Texture? What is it?

If you can tell me what it is I can help…

But you could use a bool called isPaused and change that value when you pause it… make all movement reliant on it in an if statement so that nothing happens when it is true

3

Yes, it is a GUI. I am using the TK 2D Button script on a TK 2D Sprite.
For example, this is my pause button that I created. But I am trying to make it so I click a button on the screen, and it will move the player’s object vertically up. Similarly, a down button to be clicked to send him down vertically.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PauseTest : MonoBehaviour
{
private Rect windowRect;
bool paused = true;

private void OnGUI()
{

windowRect = GUI.Window(0, windowRect, windowFunc, “Pause Menu”);

if (paused)
windowRect.Set (-100,0,0,0);
else
windowRect.Set (Screen.width / 2 - 100, Screen.height / 2 - 100, 200, 200);
}

void OnMouseDown()
{
Time.timeScale = 0;
windowRect = new Rect(Screen.width / 2 - 100, Screen.height / 2 - 100, 200, 200);
paused = false;
}

private void windowFunc(int id)
{
if (GUILayout.Button(“Resume”))
{
Time.timeScale = 1;
windowRect.Set (-100,0,0,0);
paused = true;
}
{
}
}
}