GAM-603 Weekly Blog 10

Notes and Interacting with them

This week I focused on adding a note system to the game. With it being programming though I would need some help of which I found a video that would help me implement one into the game I also felt like it was better doing it this way as it would help me learn more rather than grabbing an asset for it.

Video Link : Creating Notes & Letters In Unity -- UI & Raycast Tutorial (youtube.com)

For the sake of the blog though I will go through here how I implemented it and how it works within my scene.

Implementing the Note system

The system in general requires two scripts and a canvas. One script will be a raycast that will let the player know when they are looking at a note and what note they are looking and will let me choose the desired interact key. The second script is placed on the notes and wil control how the notes appear on screen through the camera, to note though I will not leave any code here as I don't want to take away from the video so if you want to see that I implore you watch it. What I will show you though is how it looks within my scene.

What it looks like while hovering over the note. The reticle originally white turns red to let you know it can be interacted with

The note will then show up onto the screen and pressing the same button again will make it go away.