Afterburner Overheating

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Hey guys! I need help with an afterburner overheating script for a game.

The player controls a spaceship, and with shift, he has the ability to use a 1.5 second boost, after what it will take 3 seconds to cooldown.

Now I want it to act like a real heating machine gun / engine, as in you can use it for 1 second, let it cool a bit, and use it again. But if you go over the 1.5 second threshold, it will need to cool down. If possible, I'd also like to display the percentage of heating.

I realise this might be very complicated, soI'm kind of clueless on how to proceed, could anyone help?

In C# if possible, thanks in advance!

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Answer by Owen-Reynolds · Dec 08, 2012 at 04:12 PM

Make a variable like `float thrustSecondsLeft=1.5f;`

Whenever you're thrusting, subtract `Time.deltaTime` from it. Otherwise add, up your max thrust seconds.

Logically, you can thrust when it's greater than 0, but that would allow players to hold down all the time for a jerky 1/2-thrust (build up 1 frame worth of time, use it, ... .) So maybe say you can only begin a thrust when 0.5 or more. Or, if they hit 0 they have "damaged it" and it drops to -0.5.

If you want to be really cute, you can play with the MAX. Let them build up a big one: at full thrustSconds, you could slowly build up to 2.5 seconds left. Or make it wear out with frequent use: Using thrust gives a tiny decrease to the max, which quickly "heals" back to 1.5 when at max.

For showing amount left, look around here for how to do a life bar.

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SpaceSloth · Dec 08, 2012 at 04:49 PM 0

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Thank you for your answer! I will try that out now.

SpaceSloth · Dec 08, 2012 at 05:13 PM 0

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I tried putting two conditions, the first being if thrustSecondsLeft > 0, the turbo applies, if thrustSecondsLeft < 0, the turbo stops

The turbo runs fine up until the 1.5 seconds, then it stops, without regenerating, so I can't use it again. Any idea on how I can set a cooldown, so that the turbo can be used after 3 seconds?

Also I'll try to reset the thrustSecondsLeft slowly down on keyup, so that it reacts like a heated engine.

Owen-Reynolds · Dec 08, 2012 at 08:35 PM 0

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Are you regenerating it? Somewhere in update there would be a line "if not using turbo, increase the amount, up to 1.5 max?"

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