Problem with enemy shooting

Questions & Answers
1

Hey guys,
I cant make my enemy shoot with delay and to do it when its near my player…
Nothing works. No errors, just nothing happens…
Please help me…

public Rigidbody projectile;
public Transform player;
public float playerDistance;

public float speed = 50;
public float delayTime = 0.5f;

private float counter = 0;



void Start () {
	
}

void Update () {

	playerDistance = Vector3.Distance (player.position, transform.position);
	
	if (playerDistance < 1400f && counter > delayTime)
	{
		counter = 0;
		Rigidbody instantiatedProjectile = Instantiate(projectile,transform.position,transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;

		instantiatedProjectile.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, 0,speed));
		
	}
}

}

3

Okay, I see where the problem is now and again, I think you should use Time.time for this functionality.

public float bulletShootInterval = 0.5f;
private float startTime;

void Start()
{
    //Get the current time.
    startTime = Time.time;
}

void Update()
{
    playerDistance = Vector3.Distance (player.position, transform.position);

    if (playerDistance < 1400f && Time.time > startTime)
    {

        //Perform your stuff here.
        Rigidbody instantiatedProjectile =    Instantiate(projectile,transform.position,transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;

        instantiatedProjectile.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, 0,speed));

        //Increment the time variable by the interval.
        startTime = Time.time + bulletShootInterval;
    }
}

Hope this helps !!

4

Perhaps this:

 public float speed = 50;
 public float delayTime = 0.5f;

 void Start () {
     InvokeRepeating("InstantiateProjectileIfNeeded", 0.0f, delayTime);
 }

 void InstantiateProjectileIfNeeded()
 {
     playerDistance = Vector3.Distance (player.position, transform.position);
     if (playerDistance < 1400f)
     {
         counter = 0;
         Rigidbody instantiatedProjectile = Instantiate(projectile,transform.position,transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
 
         instantiatedProjectile.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, 0,speed));
         
     }
 }

Since you want to launch a projectile if a distance is less than 1400 but not too frequently there must be a delay of delayTime. The following script repeatedly invoke a function after delayTime and if the distance is less than 1400, your logic should execute and no need of counter variable i guess.

Hope it helps!

2

I think you just forget to increment your counter…

 void Update () {
 
     playerDistance = Vector3.Distance (player.position, transform.position);
     
     counter += Time.deltaTime;

     if (playerDistance < 1400f && counter > delayTime)
     {
         counter = 0;
         Rigidbody instantiatedProjectile = Instantiate(projectile,transform.position,transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
 
         instantiatedProjectile.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0, 0,speed));
         
     }
 }

I hope this help…

5

NeverHopeless ,
it worked after i added:

void Update(){
InstantiateProjectileIfNeeded ();
}

but the bullet still has no speed. It`s makin instantiate and it works…but I need to make it move. Thank you for your help i really appreciate this .