📜PLAYER CLASS

SCRIPT DETAILS

GOAL

The goal of the Player Class is to translate the player's input to actions within the project.

FEATURES

The Player Class should have methods that can handle the following features:

1. When the PLAYER presses the SPACE KEY --> Activate the RequestBullet() method from the Pool Manager Class --> Tell the newly activated bullet where to be placed

FULL SCRIPT

https://github.com/jordantkay21/CodingNotes/blob/a4c13822387b79172a5168fe2cb7d4645a5070a6/Assets/Object%20Pooling/Scripts/Player.cs

SCRIPT BREAKDOWN

VARIABLES

[SerializeField]
private GameObject _bulletPrefab;

_bulletPrefab --> variable to store bullet prefab

UPDATE()

GOAL --> Check for Player Input each frame

private void Update()
{
    if (Keyboard.current.spaceKey.wasPressedThisFrame)
    {
        GameObject bullet = PoolManager.Instance.RequestBullet();
        bullet.transform.position = Vector3.zero;
    }
}

• LINE 3 --> Checks each frame if the player presses the space key

  • LINE 5 --> activates the RequestBullet() within the Pool Manager Class and places the returned bullet within a variable called bullet

  • LINE 6 --> sets the position of the newly activated bullet at the player's position