Finally I’ve had some time to work on the 3×3 project, which have resulted in a version 7.
I’ve added a particle effect with box meshes, for when boxes are removed. I’m using the color of the removed box to fake the box exploding/being torn apart.
I had some difficulty getting the particle effect to use color over lifetime after switching to box mesh. So I ended up making a small fadeout script.
public float alphaStart = 1.0f;
public float alphaEnd = 0.0f;
public float overTime = 1.0f;
private float alpha;
private float deltaAlpha;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
alpha = alphaStart;
deltaAlpha = (alphaEnd - alphaStart) / overTime;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
alpha += deltaAlpha*Time.deltaTime;
Color c = transform.renderer.material.color;
c.a = alpha;
transform.renderer.material.color = c;
}
It’s linear, which I didn’t really want, but for now its ok. I plan to make it a bit more controllable. Something like time to wait before starting to fade out.
By pure accident I discovered that I hadn’t used Time.deltaTime anywhere, so I have corrected this, and tested and set new speed values in all scripts, moving, rotating or scaling objects over time.
After playing the game a few times I noticed that I wasn’t getting any points after level 8. This small bug was of cause, also fixed.
I plan to add some more sound effects and get some basic menus set up over the next few days, but I ‘ll have to see what time and motivation life brings. 🙂
Play version 7 and remember to give feedback. Thanks 🙂
– Henning