Top Down Shooter: Unity tutorial series (03)

Welcome to part 3 - more work on the gun system: bullet trails, sfx, shells etc.

Check out these sound effect packs:

You're welcome to request any features you would like to see covered in future episodes.

Full series playlist:

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[qwasdr]

Great tutorial, I appreciate you targeting people who have a programming background instead of explaining every little detail, makes for a much more fluid and enjoyable watch!

[himbibble]

Your tone of voice when you went 

"Nothing terribly impressive, I'm sure you could make it. It's a... a cube."

Made me crack up.

Great tutorial though! I love it.

[scottev]

The shell ejection was a very nice touch. Thanks for going the extra mile!

[blitzkraigpd]

Great series, still works well on Unity 5 with a couple of tiny tweaks.

I noticed the shells were always pointing in the same direction. Not sure if this is the best way to fix this, but;

newShell.rotation = spawn.rotation;

after instantiating newShell seems to do the trick. The shells are ejected facing the same direction as the weapon.

[derekrieger]

I used
AudioSource audio = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
audio.Play();
instead, but so far this tutorial is very useful.

[leftyfourguns]

This is a brilliant tutorial series. Thanks so much for putting it together

[hodgepodge]

I like your tutorials and I'm going through them.  I'm wondering if in the future you can pause for a moment when you're switching back from Monodevelop to Unity or changing concepts, or to talk about some concepts at a high level as you use them.  For example, Instantiate lets you do this, and if you want to understand more about instantiate, go here.  There are also a lot of minitasks you do that you breeze through or don't actually mention.  It's tough I know, because it's second hand for you and not necessarily for everyone else.

Thanks for the great work!

[impaga]

Now in Unity5 worked with
mat =
and

[mattsolomon]

audio.Play is obsolete. it wants to replace it with i'm not sure why, but my gun clip repeats way too quickly and sounds like a buzzing noise? what am i doing wrong??

[OmenLW]

Hey Sebastian. I noticed that my shells eject according to "world space"? Like if I am standing facing Y, my shells eject like this: |    

But if I am facing X, they eject like this: __

Basically their rotation doesnt change when I rotate. Can you tell me how to fix this?  I noticed this on your gun too, if you look closely.

[MultiFlashPro]

Rigidbody newShell = Instantiate(shell, shellEjectionPoint.position, shellEjectionPoint.rotation) as Rigidbody; and use privius Shell model. Because Shell direction on 90 degrees not facing and 180 degrees is facing)

[eXifreXi]

How about using a recording software that zooms in when you are coding etc. Because i guess many of us are finding it hard to read something on the screen with the todays screen resolutions :D

[dragonking]

OK i decided to take a couple of days off before doing the shells script and i got it working mostly Right. Useing Unity 5 and I can't get the rigidbody to Sleep. since I'm on Unity 5 do i need to GetComponent on the rigid body like i did the renderer? also do i need to know anything about .Sleep for unity 5?

[HeyItsJRC]

I have a huge problem all my shells are hovering in the air, as if they are sat on something; thing is there is nothing there for them to get stuck on. any help would be appreciated! 

[TRN_SeaHag]

Could you fix the movement please? when I walk around using the mouse control the characters movement inverts weirdly. its kinda getting annoying XD, Other than that everything seems to be awesome! keep up the good work!

[adrianalcomendras]

Im having problems with the shell.blend file. I cant seem to drag and drop it to unity and it prompts that blender has stopped working. im using unity 4.6.1f1 and blender 2.72b any help would be much appreciated :D

[NikolaZagorac]

If you don't want for the bullets to fall through the ground just delete the ground and create a cube then set its x = 0 y = 0.75 and z = 0, then set its scale to x = 30 y = 0.5 and z = 30 and give it the ground texture.

[stxcoop]

Why are you adding in a tracer, I’m already tracer

[thehugecrunchyone]

Can someone help? When shooting one round after an other the audio clips.

[stunkata]

I've been following the tut series these days. Its done really great and I'm gonna take my time with this comment to say thank you ^.^