Fire them Guns!

Unity Engine
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Hi guys,

Not sure if this is posted in the right section, so feel free to bump me.

I have this neat little drone armed to the motherboard with two over sized miniguns of whirling destruction, BUT I have no idea how to get them to fire… What I want to do is make about 20 bullets (particles?) fly out in a randomly generated cone in front of the two barrels, muzzle flares would also be a huge plus, but not crucial at this time, the bullets would then die on contact in a shower of sparks. I would imagine this is one of the most asked things in here, but browsing around a little availed me nothing. If there is a tutorial out there anywhere I would be happy if you could point me in the right direction :slight_smile:

Krise

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I think that the first part of the first person tutorial is a good place to start. It gets into weapons and projectiles pretty quickly. And I think part 3 covers some AI.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/tutorials/

Of course, if the tutorial doesn’t cover something you need, please post back.
Hope this helps!

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@besuser, Thanks mate that tutorial helped alot, although the resources for it dont seem to work with Unity 2.0 I managed to make my guns fire tiny spheres of destructions ending their path in a blaze of glorious sparkling doom!

Still I have a hard time getting bullet trails, as it is now I have tried to mess around with particles, but it seems to emit over an area too big for the muzzle of the guns. I have looked at every little setting but cant seem to make the emitting point smaller… Also I cannot attatch a single particle strand to the bullets and give it the “draw velocity” look. Am I going about this the wrong way?

Krise

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Tutorial updates (to work seamlessly with Unity 2.0) are on the way…

Have you tried using the Trail Renderer as an option? Select your bullet prefab then use Component > Particles > Trail Renderer. You’ll need to create a particles material but in general it’s all fairly easy to use and may get you exactly what you want (for little effort).

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Thanks HiggyB, I have added the trails and I am now perfecting the look, starting to look good, just need to add some sort of auto fire and a slight variation in the trajectory of the bullets and I will be set :slight_smile:

Krise