22/03/2020

I apply two way to control the camera view by mouse position.

1. Camera rotate when mouse is not located at centre

Camera will rotate according to mouse movement.

2. Camera rotate based on mouse position

Camera will rotate when mouse is near the screen side.

After the review from tester, we decided to use method 1 to control the camera view.

16/03/2020

The current highlight function will record the textures of the pervious object. It will cause the following bug.

Then I realise the code has some problem on setting material texture. The pervious texture haven’t reset completely.

Therefore I adjust the code as following in order to set the most updated texture to the material.

12/03/2020

Since each NPC may have more than one set of dialogue and the dialogue will be changed according to the story process, dialogue system is too complicated for current dialogue system.

I find out there is a free and open source asset called “Fungus" which help solving this problem.

To navigate the dialogue, just simply add a flow chart object under the object or add a flow chart script inside the object which I prefer the former.

Then, open the flowchart window and edit the dialogue. All dialogues of this flow chart will be visualised clearly which is convenient to modify the dialogue.

It is much more convenient than the old dialogue system. The old dialogue system can almost be replaced by this asset. I just want to express my thanks to Fungus developers!

11/03/2020

I make our game based on this tutorial series E01-E03.

From the tutorial, the character can only be controlled by mouse for movement, interact and camera control. I modify the code to enable keyboard to control the character. However, user can only choose one of them on setting page.

There is some difficulties I faced on adding keyboard control:

1. Character moving direction will not update with camera facing

Character move according to its direction, not related to camera

Solution:

Multiple the rotation of y-axis on character movement

2. Player cannot interact with the object

Solution:

3. Character no response after interact with the object

Actually, it is bring from the solution of difficulty 2.

Solution:

Don’t call the playerController SetFocus function.

4. Player hard to select the object that they want to interact with

Solution:

Use a list to store the triggered object > Add object into the list if player is around the interactable object/Remove object from the list if player leave the interactable object > Compare the distance between the player and the triggered object > Highlight the object that near the player

Other problems:

1. Character model go away from the parent object when animated

Solution:

Export animation from Mixamo with “In-place" is ticked.

29/02/2020

Improvement on NPC Dialogue

1. Rotate player toward NPC
   • This function is applied on Object Dialogue System only, but now is applied on NPC Dialogue System too
2. Rotate NPC toward player
   • When player collides with the NPC, NPC will always facing player
3. Apply animation on NPC
   • NPC will having greeting action when they detect player
   • NPC will having talking action when player interact with them

Character Thought Dialogue

This function is made for trigger player’s thought by an invisible panel. When player collide with the panel, the bubble will show up.

Bug Fixing

• Wrong dialogue box show up
  • Problem: When object with dialogue script collides with player, the dialogue box of pervious object with dialogue script will show up if player interact to it
  • Solution: “GetComponent<NPC>().enabled = true;" need to put inside OnTriggerStay instead of OnTriggerEnter.

26/02/2020

I created a C# script to display the current location on the game world. The following are the different animations I made from code. We decided to use the final one.