FSE: Turrets

[jakeHaasBlog]

The turrets that we added in the previous assignment won't work with the networked players because they spawn in after an indeterminate amount of time. They also need to be modified to target either the red team, blue team, or both teams. They should also only shoot at players that are within line of sight.

Tasks

• Modify turret prefab from assignment 4 to target loaded players
• Give the turret target selection for each team and both teams
• Make turret only fire when players are in the line of sight

Notes

• We will need to research Mirror to find a way to do this
• We might have to add a player-manager object or something

Blocks

• FSE: Set up mirror networking #58
• FSE: Teams #64

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[jakeHaasBlog]

We can start to implement this, but a few things need to be changed. The TeamManager needs to store each player's position and we need a way to damage the players. I am just going to make the turret fire and damage the player without a projectile.

List of changes that will be made:

• PlayerInfo will now have a Vector3 for the player's position
• The turrets will be updated on the server only and send a ClientRpc to each player along with the id of the player that was shot at. A NetworkTransform component will sync the turret's transform with all the clients automatically.

This shouldn't take long to implement. I'll probably have it done either later tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

[jakeHaasBlog]

After a little more thinking, it might be easier to send an event to the players to damage them instead of an RPC