Dice Testing

Unity Engine
1

Hey everyone.

I’m making a dice game, not too far away from yahtzee or something where you roll the dice and save some on the side and roll the rest.

Basically right now I want to roll a dice and know what it landed on. It’s like stupidly simple but i don’t really know how I can go about and do it. I might check the rotation? I tried a few rolls and check the transform.rotation to try and check if it’s consistant, but it’s not!

Also it gives me a quaternion, where I really would like to see a vector.

Here’s the masterful coding I did, it gets instanciated with the dice:

function Update () {

		if (rigidbody.velocity == Vector3.zero  transform.position.y < 3 ){
			
			Debug.Log(transform.rotation);
//apply a tag of what the dice is depending on the face landed up, probably with a simple switch thing.
			Destroy(GetComponent(DiceID));
		}
		

}

any tips? Be gentle, i’m a total noob.

2

Assuming your dice is a cube mesh and that cube mesh doesn’t share vertices you might consider checking which faces have their normal facing up. That would at least get you the side - you’d then need another step to determine the “value” on that side of the dice.

3

You may also be able to check which face is touching the ground using either collision or OnTriggerEvents(). On top of this you could also assign a value to each specific Vector3 rotation or have a raycaster extruding from each face to the table and check which one is verticle.