How can I create a boat or ship controller (and switch between boat controller and FPS)?

[onegamingodi]

Hi everyone!

I am relatively new to Unity and I have to develop a short game set in an archipelago. I was thinking about employing a boat controller to make the player experience more realistic.

I found this tutorial on YT:

Unity 5 Tutorial - Boat and First Person

and therefore emplyed the following script for controlling the boat (Dropbox):

and this on for switching between boat and FPS controller.

Basically none of them worked; moreover, everytime I try to use a camera this jumps out of the boat and I have no clue about why this is happening.

I’d be so grateful to receive any piece of information / small hint.

thank you so much for your time!

-bri

[Kurt-Dekker]

@onegamingodi

Basically none of them worked;

How to report your problem productively in the Unity3D forums:

http://plbm.com/?p=220

Might want to work through some tutorials for transitioning between controllers. I imagine you’re on the right track, but you have to learn how to debug what you made.

To help gain more insight into your problem, I recommend liberally sprinkling Debug.Log() statements through your code to display information in realtime.

Doing this should help you answer these types of questions:

• is this code even running? which parts are running? how often does it run?
• what are the values of the variables involved? Are they initialized?

Knowing this information will help you reason about the behavior you are seeing.

[onegamingodi]

@Kurt-Dekker

How to report your problem productively in the Unity3D forums:

http://plbm.com/?p=220

Might want to work through some tutorials for transitioning between controllers. I imagine you’re on the right track, but you have to learn how to debug what you made.

To help gain more insight into your problem, I recommend liberally sprinkling Debug.Log() statements through your code to display information in realtime.

Doing this should help you answer these types of questions:

• is this code even running? which parts are running? how often does it run?
• what are the values of the variables involved? Are they initialized?

Knowing this information will help you reason about the behavior you are seeing.

Thanks so much, and thank you for the useful information on how to present my question. I’ll try to check which parts are running, hopefully I can spot the issue.