Doors, Doors, Doors

While it is still midterms week, and I do still have tests coming up, I felt like I needed to get something done with regards to the game since it's been sitting unattended for a little while now. So I whipped together a simple door script handler and figured out how projectiles and collision triggers actually work, which is "surprisingly simple" — go watch Ceave if you haven't before, one of my favorite channels on YouTube.

No affiliation by the way, I just like their content.

That being said, it really was quite simple. I was already getting and printing the gameObject parent from objects my projectiles were colliding with, so I just used that reference and called SendMessage on it. That in turn called a method found on gameObjects like Doors, and voila! Doors receive a hit notification, are flagged to permanently unlocked if hit with the correct damage type (including charge variants), and open.

I still have some work to do, mainly

1. getting the door to smoothly move up

2. changing the door's appearance when the permanent_unlock_flag is true

3. getting the door to smoothly move down after a set time

4. making sure player collision works at all stages of the door opening/closing

5. making sure the player doesn't get shoved into the void when the door closes & player is under doorframe - maybe push player away or have a zone where the player's presence prevents door from closing? there are options

Anyway, here's the WIP code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

namespace Scripts
{
    public class Interactables_Door : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [SerializeField]
        private float VerticalSpeed = 0.5f;
        [Tooltip("This float represents the number of seconds until the door begins to close. Accounts for the delay in opening at the start.")]
        [SerializeField]
        private float TimeUntilClose = 7.5f;
        [Tooltip("0 = Debug\n1 = Arcane\n2 = Fire\n3 = Ice\n4 = Lightning\n5 = Gamma")]
        [SerializeField]
        private int ReqDamageType = 0;
        [Tooltip("Whether or not the door requires a charged shot to be opened.")]
        [SerializeField]
        private bool ChargeLock = false;

        private float timeOpen = 0;
        private bool isOpen = false;

        private bool permanent_unlock_flag = false;

        // Update is called once per frame
        void Update()
        {
            if (isOpen)
            {
                // Real-time delay before the door closes, calculated on update ticks
                timeOpen += Time.deltaTime;
                if (timeOpen >= TimeUntilClose) 
                {
                    isOpen = ToggleState();
                }
                Debug.Log("Closing door. . .");
            }
        }

        public void ApplyDamage (string s)
        {
            if (isOpen)
                return;

            Debug.Log("Attempting to open door.");

            string[] projectileData = s.Split('/');

            // Checks the weapon values against what the door requires to unlock/open
            if (!permanent_unlock_flag &&
                projectileData[1].Equals("" + ReqDamageType) &&
                projectileData[2].Equals("" + ChargeLock))
            {
                permanent_unlock_flag = true;
                ReqDamageType = 0;
                ChargeLock = false;

                isOpen = ToggleState();
                UpdateVisual();
                return;
            }
            else if (permanent_unlock_flag)
                isOpen = ToggleState();
        }

        private bool ToggleState()
        {
            // moving the door stuff here

            return !isOpen;
        }
        
        private void UpdateVisual()
        {
            // change the door graphic to be default non-charge arcane
        }
    }
}