This game was made with the combined power of 3 artists and 3 programmers. I was a programmer and I made the start and restart menu, controller controls for the UI, and shooting of the gun and rocket.
Controller support was hard to make because I had to think about what way I wanted it done. Here I made an array of buttons that are in the UI and when you tilled the joystick it would increase or decrease the index of the array.
Then I made the current index that is selected highlight. I wanted to make it easy for the controller players to know where they are in the menus and this is what I came up with.
When making the start UI I wanted the artist to easily put in their assets. I put all of the buttons in their respective containers so I could turn them off visually to change the menu. Each time I go to options I turn off the other menu This made organizing each menu easier and having the ability when, making the menu to turn off what, I was not working on currently. I used console commands to call the other level to start.
The restart menu is a UI overlay that when you die covers your screen. By doing this I made the input for the level go to UI only, then game the restart button calls the current level using system commands. The start and restart menu when going between the options on the menu works the same way.
Shooting is one of the main forms of damage. When you hold the main fire bullet(left click/right lower bumper) you can automatically shoot. And just in case you got a rocket on your right click/ left lower bumper that destroys everything in your way.
The gun is split into 3 parts. The crank, the back blast, and the bullet coming out of the barrel. The back blast of the gun makes a bool that was set in the player to true. Then the function to spawn the bullet is called. In the player I allowed the function to print bullets in tick to have auto fire happen.
The missile is an area effect damage that on impact with a wall or enemy will explode. On collision, the mesh for the rocket is disabled for visibility and I increase its size by 30 unity in each direction. By doing this I was able to keep the rocket simple and easy to understand. I only wanted a small amount in Blurprint and I needed to add particles and sound calls in Blurprint to make it spawn them.
