DevBlog 6

🎮 DevBlog Week 6 (27/02/2025) – New Player mechanics

 By: Dennys da Silva

This week, I want to expand on my player’s state machine and introduce new gameplay elements

Echolocation Ability

As discussed before, throughout the development, I wanted my player to have the ability of echolocation, which allows the player to find hidden objects and see enemies from a distance. Creating this was challenging because I wasn't sure how I would make it, but it turned out to be simple enough. 

First thing i had to do was create a shader for the echolocation, this shader will allow the player to see the objects and enemy ai in the game.  i used units shader package to create this effect.

After creating this shader I then made it into a material to test it on objects 

Although it looks transparent, that's the goal of the shader. The next thing i had to do was figure out how to be able to see objects through walls, and I just had to mess around with Unity URP Settings which wasn't too hard

With all this added i then made sure to implement code so I could toggle on the shader through layers when the player goes into the echolocation state. The code is very long, so i will not be showing it here. 

once i added the necessary things i than made a player vfx for the echolocation which turned out to be really good 

So whenever the player presses Q on their keyboard, they can see objects and enemies for a certain amount of time

Wall Climb 

Wall climbing was very hard to do; it would involve a lot of maths to make it work, and I had to think about how it would work and if the wall climb was from the floor or the air. Does dashing into a wall trigger wall climb?  How long can we wall climb?, Does anything end our wall climb? Can we jump from a wall climb? if so, do we get our double jump reset, or if so, do we get infinite jumps as long as we keep wall climbing? When wall climbing, how does movement work? Can we go up, down

It was very complicated to do this player mechanic but eventually i got it working