Intro

This has been some time coming but I guess that is to be expected there wasent enough new content to merit an entire blog post till now since so far the focus has only been polishing whats already there and to be fair I have been losing a little motivation for writing blog posts at the same time I feel like having a record of my work like this is important and in all fairness is pretty cool too look back on so I will continue doing this. That said there has been a major update which is the jump animation. During the course of my integrating the jump animation I realized unity has something called Blend tree for its animation ....I had no idea something like this even existed so I ended up learning something new after all.

StartUp

The way my framework well works is that it changes to the state the game currently needs to be in essentially prepares the state getting everything that needs to be ready for that state and removing the things not needed for that state so I needed some way to start the first State as soon as the mainscene loads so I ended up with the StartUp class. The responsibility of this class is to change the state to the required default state as soon as the scene loads or more broadly handle startup operations.

public class StartUp : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] SceneLoader sceneLoader;
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start ()
    {
        sceneLoader.OnSceneLoadDone += HandleSceneLoaded;	
	}

    private void HandleSceneLoaded()
    {
        StartCoroutine(WaitAndSetState());
        sceneLoader.OnSceneLoadDone -= HandleSceneLoaded;
    }

    IEnumerator WaitAndSetState()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);
        TreaderFSM.Instance.ChangeState(States.MAIN_MENU_STATE);
    }
}

Loading

So initially I wanted to have a loading bar but after some debugging I find that the loading takes 1.6 seconds max and from a user perspective it takes even less. The problem I faced was how do I visually verify if my loading screen is loading correctly if the entire thing takes less time than I take to blink. So I decided to simplify my loading  screen significantly from my initial design atleast till a time where my main scene is large enough to take more time to load. And its not like I am downloading anything. 

UILoading

This component attached the loading UI is responsible for telling the scene loader to load the scene.

public class UILoading : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] SceneLoader sceneLoader;
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start ()
    {
        sceneLoader.LoadMainScene();
	}
}

Config

Just as I did in my last game I decided to use scriptable objects to maintain my configurable data currently only for player and obstacles.

Player Config

public class PlayerConfig : ScriptableObject
{
    public float jumpForce = 20;
    public float gravityModifier = 0.5f;
}

public class ObstacleConfig : ScriptableObject
{
    public float horizontalSpeed = 6;
    public Vector3 initialPosition;
}

    void DoJump()
    {
        playerData.mainAnimator.SetBool(PlayerAnimatorKeys.GROUNDED, false);
        playerData.mainAnimator.SetFloat(PlayerAnimatorKeys.JUMPSPEED, currentForce);

        currentForce -= playerData.playerConfig.gravityModifier;
        jumpVector.y = (transform.position.y + (currentForce * Time.fixedDeltaTime));
        transform.position = jumpVector;
    }