Robo Rampage - Personal Touches

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Working through Robo Rampage in the Godot 3D course right now. I got it in the last Game Jam as my free course, and I’m using it to warm up for the October jam. I don’t feel like progressing right now (next lecture is 4.21) so I decided to add some touches to the project in the meantime.

A couple lectures ago we added spark particles to spawn when the gun shoots something. However, it felt weird seeing the same particles on enemies, so I used the same logic to make “blood” particles (pink blood like Danganronpa). These spawn when the raycast hits an enemy, and i put the normal sparks in an else statement below it.

Also, I figured out on my own how to add damage numbers as a means of hit feedback. I need to fix the spawn positions a little (they all spawn at the same y, and the x position is a bit too random), but I figured out how to do this using what I’ve learned so far in the course. It took some troubleshooting but I got there finally.

Later today/tomorrow I’ll keep going through the lectures. I’m just over halfway through Robo Rampage, so hopefully it won’t take much more to finish the course.

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(EDIT: now that I think about it, now that I have damage feedback, I can do a couple of things. 1, I can slightly randomize bullet damage, and/or 2, I could add a range mechanic and make weapons have different effective ranges o.0)

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I remembered we learned what a Curve was in Barbarian Blaster, and that’s actually pretty perfect for what I’m trying to do here. It was kind of awkward to wrap my head around, but I think I got it. The Raycast is 100m long, so I set the X value to be 0-100, and the y value will return a damage multiplier between 1.0 (full damage) and 0.1 (far out of range damage)

I think the next lecture I have to do will add a rifle, so having this logic will help that feel more like its own gun, since rifles in video games tend to do more damage at a farther effective range (at the cost of fire speed/close-range accuracy)

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Fantastic stuff! This is the sort of thing we always hope to see: students feeling inspired to advance from the template and enhance the project on their own. Very clever use of curves btw! ^v^

Also, that’s the nice thing about a self-paced course; you can do things at your own pace, and take a detour or two if you like along the way. Have fun!

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