Magnet effect to draw coins,Magnetic effect to draw coins

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1

Hello,

I have a space ship and some coins in my game. When I move my space ship towards the coins I want to have a magnetic effect so that the spaceship draws all the coins in. The code below does not work in my case. I have a circlecollider2d attached to a child of all my coins. The idea is when any coin comes nearer and nearer towards my spaceship the spaceship draws all of the coins in. But it’s not working. Any help, please?

This code is attached to the coin.

public GameObject attractedTo;
public float radius;
public float force;

private bool inside;
private Transform magnet;

private Rigidbody2D rb;


void Start() {
    rb = attractedTo.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

    magnet = GameObject.Find("Magnet").GetComponent<Transform>();

    inside = false;
}

void FixedUpdate () {
    if(inside) {
        Vector3 magnetField = attractedTo.transform.position - magnet.position;
        magnetField.z = 0;
        float index = (radius - magnetField.magnitude) / radius;
        rb.AddForce(force * magnetField * index, ForceMode2D.Force);
    }
}

void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other) {
    if (other.gameObject.tag == "PlayerShipTag") {
        inside = true;
    }
}

void OnTriggerExit2D (Collider2D other) {
    if (other.gameObject.tag == "PlayerShipTag") {
        inside = false;
    }
}
3

multiplying the inverted distance by speed would make the coin move towards faster as it gets closer.
attach this to your coin

	void Start () {
	ship = GameObject.Find("name of spaceship here").transform;
	}
	

	void Update () {
        float dis = Vector3.Distance (ship.position, transform.position);
		if (dis < 30) {
            float speed = 30-dis;
			speed = speed *Time.deltaTime*.5f;
			           transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards (transform.position, ship.position, speed);}
	}
4

I do something similar to my fuel drops for my ship.

This script is attached to your (coin) that has a rigidbody component. Obviously you might want to set your distance a bit closer in your case :wink:

public class gather : MonoBehaviour 
{
        Transform player;
        public float distance;
        Rigidbody move;
    	// Use this for initialization
    	void Start () {
            move = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
            player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
        }
    	
    	// Update is called once per frame
    	void Update ()
        {
            distance = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.transform.position);
            if (distance < 115900)
            {
    
                move.AddForce((player.transform.position - transform.position) * (16));
            }
    
        }
    }
2

Do you know about Vector3.Distance (position1, position2) ?

:smiley: !!

Bye!

5

As written above, this would be my solution. You need a Collider2D set to trigger on the object you want this object to be attracted to and set its tag to “PlayerShipTag”. I would also suggest to store magnetStrength and magnetRange on the player, to avoid attracting objects differently, but that is a different topic.

public class MagnetAttractable : MonoBehaviour {

    [SerializeField] private float magnetStrength;
    [SerializeField] private float magnetRange;

    private Rigidbody2D ownRigidbody;
    private Transform attractedTo;

    private void Awake () {
        ownRigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other) {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "PlayerShipTag") {
            attractedTo = other.transform;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit2D (Collider2D other) {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "PlayerShipTag") {
            attractedTo = null;
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate () {
        if (attractedTo != null) {
            Vector3 direction = (attractedTo.position - transform.position).normalized;
            float forceFactor = 1 - direction / magnetRange; // magnetism is actually inversely proportional to the square of distance, but this is good enough approximation
             if (forceFactor > 0) {
                 ownRigidbody.AddForce(direction * magnetStrength, ForceMode2D.Force);
            }
        }
    }

}
6

@drpelz, I think you could try to use a PointEffector2D.

This video tutorial is a good start point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znciJ1-QRX8