GUI Texture button tied to fire action

Unity Engine
1

Hi, for some reason I am having trouble wrapping my mind around this problem. Basically what I have is a list of buttons. I want each button to cause a prefab to fire forwards. I have a third person camera and character running flawlessly. As of right now when I push one of the buttons, it fires the prefab from its original location in the scene and has no relation to the character.

How do I tie the fire prefab script to the character object? I want to have the objects always shoot out from in front of the camera.

Thanks
Unitizer

2

An easy way you could fix this problem, is set a “Target” transform for your GUI script. Then from the fire button’s code, you could say…

Instantiate( BulletPrefab, Target.position, Target.rotation );

this would effectively create the prefab you want at the player location and not just at the coordinates of the Gameobject or the world center.

3

Thanks, with your help the objects now originate correctly from my characters location. There is a new problem however. The objects still only shoot the direction that they were facing. So if I point my character in that original direction they shoot fine. If I am in the opposite direction the character gets shot in the face basically because they are still trying to travel in the original direction. There must be a way to have the objects always shoot from the character out. I just don’t know what would do it.

 function OnMouseDown()
 {
    state++;
    if (state == 2)
        myGUITexture.texture = pressedTexture;
		

var Box : Rigidbody = Instantiate(myPrefab, Target.position, Target.rotation);
Box.velocity = transform.TransformDirection (Vector3.forward * 25);
			
		}
	}

I am guessing it has something to do with the transform direction.

Thanks