Time used 12 hours (3+3+6)

Last Friday, I spent 3 hours fixing the issue related to shooting directions. I thought it would be an easy fix as I could track the direction of controllers but I underestimated it. It took me some time to figure out TrackedPoseDriver in Unity to correct aiming direction and prevent random shooting.

Then I tried to implement the hadouken-like special attack gesture. I designed it as two phases: the first one is a fireball on each hand and when two fireballs collide, they are energized into a larger fireball; the second one is pressing the trigger to cast the spell. At the beginning, I mistakenly thought I could implement the two phases with only one input action (only press trigger button): when pressing the trigger the first time your two hands will cast two fireballs, then if they collide you can press the second time to shoot them as a larger fireball. But I wasted 3 hours. It was too difficult to branch the conditions for the unique input action of the VR controller, specifically, “trigger-button-pressed”. Then, I spent six hours successfully simplifying it by adding one more input action “grip-button-pressed”. Now, when you press the grip button, you will generate two fireballs on your two hands, and if they are close to each other, they will combine to a larger one, and you can press the trigger to shoot. After I decided to use two buttons, the process was much easier, and the main task was dealing with collisions and instantiating a larger fireball from the two smaller one.


Video: https://vimeo.com/643897430

While I was testing my game with the WMR headset last week, I encountered a new problem. Sometimes the Head-mounted display (HMD) device kept loading like the image below, and the game scene was not responding. This was very time consuming.


Also, when I tried to capture the gifs with ShareX to upload to imgur for my DevBlog, there was an error, “Imgur upload failed (417) internal expectation failed.” So I was not able to upload the gif link, and had to include a vimeo video link instead.



This week, I want to spend most of my time optimizing the gesture, implementing an energizing period like 3 or 4 seconds, and creating my own particle effects.