When the enemy character shoots, the bullet won't go to the position of my player!

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When the enemy character shoots, the bullet won't go to the position of my player.

The Enemy Script:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public float speed;
     public float stoppingDistance;
     public float retreatDistance;
     private float maxDistance;
     public int maxEnemyHealth;
 
     private float timeBTWShots;
     public float startTimeBTWShots;
 
     public Transform eFirePoint;
     private Transform player;
     public GameObject projectile; 
     public float projectileSpeed;
     private Vector2 target;
 
     private void Start()
     {
         player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;
         target = new Vector2(player.position.x, player.position.y);
 
         maxDistance = stoppingDistance + retreatDistance * 2;
         timeBTWShots = startTimeBTWShots;
     }
 
     private void Update()
     {
         if(Vector2.Distance(transform.position, player.position) > stoppingDistance)
         {
             transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards
             (transform.position, player.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
         }
         if(Vector2.Distance(transform.position, player.position) < retreatDistance)
         {
             transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards
             (transform.position, player.position, -speed * Time.deltaTime);
         }
         if(Vector2.Distance(transform.position, player.position) <= maxDistance
         || Vector2.Distance(transform.position, player.position) == maxDistance)
         {
             EnemyShoot();
         }
     }
 
     private void EnemyShoot()
     {
         if(timeBTWShots <= 0)
         {
             GameObject eBullet = Instantiate
             (projectile, eFirePoint.position, eFirePoint.rotation);
 
             projectile.transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards
             (transform.position, target, projectileSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
 
             timeBTWShots = startTimeBTWShots;
         }
         else
         {
             timeBTWShots -= Time.deltaTime;
         }
 
         if(transform.position.x == target.x && transform.position.y == target.y)
         {
             Destroy(projectile);
         }
     }
 
     public void TakeDamage(int damage)
     {
         maxEnemyHealth -= damage;
         if(maxEnemyHealth <= 0)
         {
             Destroy(gameObject);
         }
     }
 }

Answer 1

Answer by yonatanab1 · Feb 28 at 09:11 AM

first of all, the problem could be that the player is a child of an object that affects it's position. try to print "player.position" every frame (on update()) and check if it works.

second of all, your question is a bit unclear. is the bullet moving? is it moving to the wrong direction? what is the problem here exacly? (whats working and not againts what should work)

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tabbr17 · Feb 28 at 11:16 AM 0

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The player is not a child of another object, and the print(player.position); is working fine. The problem is that, when the bullet is instantiated, it does'nt move. I want the enemy to target the player and shoot, but it doesn't work.

Answer 2

I'd recommend you have one class for Enemy and another for Projectiles
Then for the target I'd have target = player.transform.position rather than new Vector2.
Then you don't need to have if(transform.position.x == target.x && transform.position.y == target.y) you can simply go by if (transform.position = target.position)
You also Instantiate a GameObject eBullet which I don't understand where's it coming from since you have a public GameObject projectile.
But I imagine the main issue is that you don't have a method for the attack? I'm not too sure tbh but maybe something like this would help?

 public void Attack()
     {
         Vector2 direction = player.position - eFirePoint.position;
         float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
         Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(angle, Vector3.forward);
         eFirePoint.rotation = rotation;
 
         Instantiate(projectile, eFirePoint.position, eFirePoint.rotation);
     }

I hope it helps.

When the enemy character shoots, the bullet won't go to the position of my player!

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