Vincent Slifer Week 5 PPJ

Most of my time this week was spent trying to figure out how to configure the control scheme for the mech game.  So far, I have a basic set up that allows me to switch between keyboard and joystick controls, although I have not done a lot of testing.  Beyond the controls, I worked on a basic player health system and reworked the basic parts of the Mech game build.

Positive Content

• Joystick functionality attempt added
• needs to be tested
• Global player health added
• Locked and hid the mouse cursor

Negative Content

• Spent too much time on research
• Midterms & Essays are the greatest

Work and Hours
Programming Research (2 hrs)

• Researched methods to use the joystick controllers and 2 player inputs
• Researched how to use the input manager (needs more work)
• Relearned some old methods to make basic systems
• Researched Static variables as global variables

Programming (2 hrs)

• Troubleshot some errors from previous builds
• Implemented mouse lock system
• Implemented joystick to keyboard functionality for testing purposes
• Added global health system
• Coded basic health bar with UI slider
• Reworked old code to be more flexible
• Created script to delete bullets after falling specific distance

Total Work Time: 4 hrs