Question on Player Damage

Questions & Answers
1

I have a regular enemy damage script, but I am wondering, I am planning on making a paintball minigame, and how can I take damage from another player? (NOTE: The game will be an online game).

2

The easy way to do this would be to use SendMessage - check out the reference here: Unity - Scripting API: Component.SendMessage

Basically, you need a function called “ApplyDamage” or similar on every object that can be damaged:

public void ApplyDamage (float damage) {
     hitpoints -= damage;
     if (hitpoints <= 0f) {
          Die();
     }
}

On your paintballs, you’d have something like this:

   void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision) {
         float damage = 5.0f;
         collision.gameObject.SendMessage("ApplyDamage", 
                        damage, 
                        SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
    }

(Sorry for the indentation, otherwise some of the code gets cut for some reason)

This calls the function “ApplyDamage” on the object just hit, where 5 points of damage are dealt. The last parameter (SendMessageOptions) ensures that there won’t be an error if the paintball collides with an object without the ApplyDamage function, such as a wall.