My game is still in the very early stages, but basically I have an enemy that follows the player if it can see them and will continue to follow the player for a few seconds after the player leaves its sight. This works fine, except that the enemy moves slower and slower the more it moves.
I put a Debug.Log within FixedUpdate that logs the enemies movement and the more the enemy moves, the less often the Debug.Log is logged in the console, until eventually the enemy is pretty much at a stand-still. Sooo basically I think this means that FixedUpdate is being called more and more slowly over time.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? It’s driving me crazy! Is there a problem with the way I’m applying force to move the enemy? Most of this code is from a tutorial that I followed.
Here’s my code (I’m using A* Pathfinding btw):
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using Pathfinding;
[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))]
[RequireComponent(typeof(Seeker))]
public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour {
// What to chase
public Transform target;
// How many times each second we will update our path
public float updateRate = 2f;
// Caching
private Seeker seeker;
private Rigidbody2D rb;
// The calculated path
public Path path;
// The AI's speed per second
public float speed = 300f;
public ForceMode2D fMode;
[HideInInspector]
public bool pathIsEnded = false;
// The max distance from the AI to a waypoint for it to continue to the next waypoint
public float nextWaypointDistance = 1f;
// The waypoint we are currently moving towards
private int currentWaypoint = 0;
private bool searchingForPlayer = false;
public bool stillSearching = false;
public bool facingRight = true;
float horizontalVelocity;
float timer = 0f;
public float continueSearchingTime = 15f;
Vector3 enemyLocation;
Player player;
EnemySenses enemySenses;
public static EnemyMovement instance;
void Awake()
{
if (instance == null)
{
instance = this;
}
}
void Start()
{
player = Player.instance;
enemySenses = EnemySenses.instance;
enemyLocation = transform.localScale;
seeker = GetComponent<Seeker>();
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
if (target == null)
{
if (!searchingForPlayer)
{
searchingForPlayer = true;
StartCoroutine(SearchForPlayer());
}
return;
}
// Start a new path to the target position, return the result to the OnPathComplete method
seeker.StartPath(transform.position, target.position, OnPathComplete);
StartCoroutine(UpdatePath());
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
if (target != null && player.isDead == true || target != null && enemySenses.CanPlayerBeSeen() == false && stillSearching == false)
{
searchingForPlayer = false;
return;
}
else if ((target != null && stillSearching == true && enemySenses.CanPlayerBeSeen() == false) || (target != null && stillSearching == false && enemySenses.CanPlayerBeSeen() == true))
{
if (!searchingForPlayer)
{
searchingForPlayer = true;
StartCoroutine(UpdatePath());
}
}
else if (target == null)
{
if (!searchingForPlayer)
{
searchingForPlayer = true;
StartCoroutine(SearchForPlayer());
}
return;
}
if (path == null)
return;
if (currentWaypoint >= path.vectorPath.Count)
{
if (pathIsEnded)
return;
// Debug.Log("End of path reached.");
pathIsEnded = true;
return;
}
pathIsEnded = false;
// Direction to the next waypoint
Vector2 dir = (path.vectorPath[currentWaypoint] - transform.position).normalized;
dir *= speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
// Move the AI
rb.AddForce(dir, fMode);
// Debug.Log("Dir: " + dir);
float dist = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, path.vectorPath[currentWaypoint]);
if (dist < nextWaypointDistance)
{
currentWaypoint++;
return;
}
}
void LateUpdate()
{
Flip();
}
void Flip()
{
horizontalVelocity = rb.velocity.x;
if (facingRight == true && horizontalVelocity < -.10) // Facing right and moving left
{
enemyLocation.x *= -1;
transform.localScale = enemyLocation;
facingRight = false;
}
else if (facingRight == false && horizontalVelocity > .10) // Facing left and moving right
{
enemyLocation.x *= -1;
transform.localScale = enemyLocation;
facingRight = true;
}
}
IEnumerator SearchForPlayer()
{
GameObject searchResult = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
if (searchResult == null)
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
StartCoroutine(SearchForPlayer());
}
else if (player.isDead == false)
{
target = searchResult.transform;
searchingForPlayer = false;
StartCoroutine(UpdatePath());
yield return false;
}
}
IEnumerator UpdatePath()
{
if (target == null)
{
if (!searchingForPlayer)
{
searchingForPlayer = true;
StartCoroutine(SearchForPlayer());
}
yield return false;
}
// Start a new path to the target position, return the result to the OnPathComplete method
seeker.StartPath(transform.position, target.position, OnPathComplete);
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / updateRate);
StartCoroutine(UpdatePath());
}
public void OnPathComplete (Path p)
{
// Debug.Log("We got a path. Did it have an error? " + p.error);
if (!p.error)
{
path = p;
currentWaypoint = 0;
}
}
IEnumerator OnTriggerExit2D()
{
stillSearching = true;
while (timer < continueSearchingTime)
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
timer++;
// Debug.Log("Timer: " + timer);
}
if (timer >= continueSearchingTime)
{
stillSearching = false;
}
}
void OnTriggerEnter2D()
{
timer = 0.0f;
stillSearching = false;
}
}