Destroy GameObject, instantiate new one at the right distance

[ColdPluto]

I’ve been trying to create a simple trick for my horror game, that “transforms” a human into a zombie when you come close enough. Apparently it is really hard to do so, if I don’t even know how to instantiate during runtime.

Basically, I want to destroy one game object, and instantiate another one when the player comes close enough. I hope somebody can help.

[anon82818710]

I’m a relative newbie, so take this with a grain of salt, but:

1. make the collider on the “human” circular and large enough to encompass the distance you want the transformation to happen at

2. put a script with OnCollisionEnter() on the “human”

3. in OnCollisionEnter, first instantiate the zombie prefab:

   var zombiePrefab: Transform; // attach this in the IDE

   function OnCollisionEnter(collision: Collision)
   {
   var zombie: Transform;

    print("in OnCollisionEnter");
   
    // attach the prefab to the script or look it up
    zombie = Instantiate(this.zombiePrefab, this.transform.position, this.transform.rotation);
   
    // do any other initialization of the zombie object here
   

4. then destroy the “human”:

    Destroy(this.gameObject);
   

   }

[fafase]

Hey,

Just occurred to me,you could try to use the alpha channel of your prefabs:

Keep the way I put above but instead instantiate the zombie with alpha=0 then start to increase that value and decrease the alpha of the human, this way it kinda look like the guy is transforming into the zombie.

When the alpha of the human is 0 destroy the human, when the alpha of the zombie is 1 stop increasing.

[fafase]

Get the range around your fake human(FH) when the player is inside the range destroy the FH and instantiate a zombie using the transform.position of the FH.

var target:Transform; // Drag the player to the slot in the inspector

function Update(){
if(Vector3.Distance(target.position, transform.position)<range;{
   var zombie =Instantiate (Zombprefab, pos, Quaternion.identity);
   Destroy(gameObject);}}

I am just doing on top of my head so try it and report if something goes wrong or works nice.

I updated a little as I am not sure of the order of instantiation and destroy. In your case there will be both object on the scen for 1 fps but your eye won’t see it.