Weapon Switching - Unity Tutorial

[@talha9585]

These small but useful tutorials are best to watch.

[@talha9585]

also, i would like to see switch animation

[@coolboidoesstuff9828]

@@talha9585 It is really not so hard, you can search up how to do it Edit: Never mind, it's harder than I thought

[@dmudda90]

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[@coolboidoesstuff9828]

@@dmudda90 No I was talking about him asking for switching animation

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[@Brackeys]

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[@Jamesthe1]

You could also use modulo (aka the % operator) for the upward weapon switch. It would look like this: selectedWeapon++; selectedWeapon %= transform.childCount; If you don't know what modulo is, it basically gets the remainder from the division statement. You don't have to write a bunch of if statements that way. This saves a few lines and is actually quite efficient.

[@light6602]

Definitely should continue these smaller videos Brackeys!! Love them! I saw someone request an ammo system and I think that would be awesome! Along with a ui of course.

[@SuperRalle123]

As always, these small tutorials are really great! I would love to see one about animations :)

[@Cyreides]

I was going to need something similar like this for switching characters in my game, and this is perfect!

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Tutorial unclear.. Accidentally created CS:GO

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[@deraidos45]

Very helpful as always. Been watching you since the first Survival Game tutorial

[@theodorescontras5569]

Great tutorial, got weapon switching working in my game before even having my coffee.

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[@OilRacki]

Funny enough, I think I did 80% of this video on my own before seeing this. I think it just makes a lot of sense to do the way described here. It is good confirmation that I'd done things in a good way. There was one thing I did differently though.. I didn't have a "weapon holder" object, and just simply reference children below it, but I think that's just because of my game design. I have more weapons as children than the player can use, so I have something else to manage the weapons they're carrying and have armed. All in all, though, this is a great tutorial, and the method described here about the weapon holder is actually a really good idea. Thumbs up!

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[@Gathrey]

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[@КолянКоляныч-б1ь]

How to make a weapon appear when you pick it up and not just a full set of weapons? Good lessons, thank you.

[@chaosmastermind]

You would set the weapons all to inactive and then make a power up collectible that activates only one type of weapon for each.

[@ThatRazzy]

Hey were you able to figure this out?

[@AshratAR]

I thought the whole process was much more difficult than this!! But this tutorial made it all simple!!!! Thanks!!

[@chaosmastermind]

This is really useful and helpful. Thank you. Pretty much everyone that makes an FPS is going to need this.

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[@ppnhzk]

Nice tutorial as always. As I want to free up memory as much as I can, I do the switch by instantiating the weapon at a placed spawn point every time it is selected. Also, I store all the functions in the weapon object, even key presses like fire. It was easier because of the differences in their behaviour. After watching your tutorial however I might go with your method as it seems much more fluid in the end, though it might get heavy with 10+ weapons, so some testing might be needed. Not sure how much extra load the inactive stuff means.

[@david35k]

Thank you! I really like your simple and clean tutorials! Very helpful

[@RegenerationOfficial]

One of the most reused scripts Ive ever needed.

[@artinmajidi1654]

I had two animator components on my player, one for upper body and one for lower body. I made different controllers for each weapon and if that weapon is equipped, I simply switch animator controllers. Like this, I can do everything infinitely. And also, this took me a month to figure out. And another to do it.

[@xiaobodong726]

Love your model, it’s so detailed

[@WeaverKnight777]

can we make an animation for weapon switching

[@flashgames1273]

also shooting/aiming animations!

[@davidenale17]

Saad Tv yes will be nice to see it (and check if i'm doing it correctly)

[@solomonlyons10]

Saad Tv It's really really simple, I think a few really good videos on KZbin goes over it. I feel like the only challenging part for a lot of people is the mecanim portion.

[@JayAnAm]

Actually it isn't that hard, will put it to my list.

[@remove6796]

switching with animations are easy you just need to make a default state anim and then make a sound fx play on awake and walla. you didn't understand did you? :(

[@vanthele5623]

Thank you. The script is straightforward to understand

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[@lockedonbiome]

Could you do a tutorial on enemy ai with shooting

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Boss Hog306 do you still need that tutorial? I’m considering making one

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been absolutely buzzing for this video since Wednesday

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[@mlgsquirrel]

i used this for switching attachments, but instead of scroll wheel its a button. great video man

[@Oliver_TGB]

Really cool! I have an idea. How about you made a tutorial on how to make an ammo amount. In sense of being able to see how many bullets you can fire before there are none left and possibly a reloading animation.

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Simple, short and easy as it should be for programming

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[@doxel8691]

wow! I didn't know the transform class implemented the IEnumerator interface that returned the children, good to know. thanks brackeys!

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that feeling when you realize you put all the player variables (like health) in the shoot script and now u must break it apart

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[@NakaLore]

I used this for character swapping on my game. It is awesome!

[@NakaLore]

Ok, it works and it doesn’t work at the same time. The characters switch, but only at the position of the parent object. But I dunno how to make them appear at right position.

[@icantth1nkofanam40]

@@NakaLore make a script that changes their position?

[@woofiewill]

When you want to restrict an index to a range of numbers (like wrapping the index back to 0 when incrementing) it's almost always better practice to use modulus. Write `selectedWeapon = (selectedWeapon + 1) % transform.childCount` instead. This is a slight performance increase over using an if statement, and it's much more succinct. Even better would be this (I'll use some slight pseudocode): if (scrollUp) selectedWeapon++; else if (scrollDown) selectedWeapon--; selectedWeapon = selectedWeapon % transform.childCount; This way it's much simpler and you only need to apply modulus once to make sure the variable stays in your desired range.

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[@drimihq7724]

H,i I just started with Unity and C# last week and your videos are really helping me. I was wondering whether you could use a for loop instead of having to copy paste the "if statements" and whether it's beneficial (Timestamp 9:00) I used an array for the keycodes like this private UnityEngine.KeyCode[] Keycodes = {KeyCode.Alpha1, KeyCode.Alpha2, KeyCode.Alpha3, KeyCode.Alpha4, KeyCode.Alpha5, KeyCode.Alpha6, KeyCode.Alpha7, KeyCode.Alpha8, KeyCode.Alpha9, KeyCode.Alpha0}; and then I used a for loop and it works fine for (int i = 0; i

[@Viski982]

Thanks man.

[@ЄвгенГавриловський]

Thank you, I tried it and it really worked and this code is not massive. However, I should specify that in my case it worked when I declared in "Update" method KeyCode array without "private" together with loop between "if" statements for mouse scroll wheel switching and if (previousWeapon != selectedWeapon).

[@systematicloop3215]

In the foreach statement in the SelectWeapon method, you could have simply said SetActive(selectedWeapon == i) instead of routing it to separate if statements.

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Now that's called a awesome tutorial

[@JustKatoh]

Thank you for the video, i have learned a lot

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All the way first class tutorial. Love your tutorial

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Great tutorials. Cheers !

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[@alphachicken3225]

Brackeys please do a tutorial (or tutorials) on 2D procedural generation with blocks, similar to Terraria or Starbound.

[@lordofpenutbutter]

i think theres a tutorial about that on Sebastian league's channel

[@Notchmods]

Thanks a lot sensei brackeys

[@NachoMan154]

4:15 you could write that in one line: weapon.gameobject.SetActive(i == selectedWeapon);(instead of lines 22-25) should also be faster!

[@DeaMikan]

loved it! can you make a tutorial all about post processing effects on the camera!

[@bransoncostin2070]

Thank you so much this helps me in my farming game!

[@qweqweqwqeqweewe5218]

why the fuck do you need a weapon in a farm game. wtf bro.

[@bransoncostin2070]

Don't ask questions...

[@blaizefar45]

Another Great Tutorial

[@magnusm4]

I like this way of making weapons best as it allows me to make each individual gun unique and not have to include every single stat on a single constructor file as some guns might be fired once or be selected as an ability so fire rate would be useless. Though i'm planning on having more than 30 or even 60 different weapons

[@ildarildar1546]

thank you Brackeys you rea lly helped me

[@punisherioi]

Hello Brackeys, can you make a Weapon pick up tutorial please, like picking a weapon by pressing 'F' and and 'Q' to drop. To be simple, like COD weapon picking...(pick, drop, swap)... your videos are really amazing and easy to understand... thanks...

[@ThatRazzy]

Hey did you figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing :)

[@lars-sorensen]

Elsker disse simple tutorials!

[@ashwinanand4208]

can you connect this to the fps series please

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Cool man! Btw a local Splitscreen tut? Just asking

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3:17 Brackeys farting is the last thing I expected to hear today...

[@tatepayton7368]

Very helpful for both 2D and 3D

[@farrukhkamal2315]

Very good tutorial, helped me alot. Can you make a tutorial on how to add animations when switching weapons.Thanks again

[@NiteHawkk123]

Amazing tutorial!

[@sanderhoel6289]

i find it quite funny how I have been struggling on an fps for half a year now, and boom you just solved all my problems.. p.s: i am sort of a beginner and the fps is not that complicated :)

[@matarloum2894]

This is working for you on uNet ??

[@andreig2946]

Hey can you make a video about how to make a car moove? Great job on your videos man!

[@willmathonsi2286]

Another brilliant video Asbjørn. Any idea on how to do ammo switching?

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[@hackermub2598]

5:50 well we can easily do that by selectedWeapon++; selectedWeapon%=transform.childCount; That means whenever selectedWeapon gets to the limit.. it will be set to 0

[@xXLanyuzAnlunXx]

its just to make the beginners understand

[@we2000h]

You are a great guy !! Love you

[@migueldast8812]

Great job! You are awesome! I ask you a question becouse i need help with my game. If i have not pick up the weapons yet, how can i activate the script (of weapon switching) after that? NOTE: I have the weapons in trigger box for seleccion. Please i need to solve it! Thanks!

[@kaiser9321]

A better way for wrapping around would be using variable % number, I remember using it in another coding language but I'm not sure if it works in C#, get back to me on that, thanks

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[@atlasthetitan5110]

Nice video, could you make a ammo mechanic, like have some script count to a certain number then like disable the shooting script until you press the reload button, it could also trigger an animation

[@randomguy-gb9ge]

I have something like that, if you want check out this tutorial:kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ6QhIZjeKeNbsk

[@abluecherry7937]

you could also make it so if the gun isn't in view the gun wont fire then you could make a cube that has all 3 guns attached to it and it spins a certain amount when you press a button

[@frostymug3123]

Great tutorial thank you!

[@julianpizano5586]

Great tutorial! but I have a problem... The weapons that I have attached to the character controller aren't part of a weapon holder game object. (they are just children of the main camera) if I try to child the weapons to an empty game object, the positions of the weapons change... this causes the weapon animations to change drastically. Is there a way to child the weapons to an empty game object (weapon holder) without changing the position of the weapons themselves??????? plz reply!

[@chaosmastermind]

You do have to add the number keys code for each weapon you add though. You don't need to add it for the mouse wheel though. There are ways to make that automated, but it's better not to get into it for a beginner tutorial.

[@EDemircivi]

Simple & effective, thank you for your tutorials. Keep it up, and don't mind your view counts, you're great :).

[@LorcanG]

i added a transition to it so its not static using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class WeaponSwitching : MonoBehaviour { public int selectedWeapon = 0; public float WeaponSwitchSpeed = 5f; public Vector3 position1; public Vector3 position2; public GameObject weapon1; public GameObject weapon2; public GameObject weapon3; public bool Selected1; public bool Selected2; public bool Selected3; void Start() { StartCoroutine(SelectWeapon()); } void Update() { int i = 0; int previousSelectedWeapon = selectedWeapon; if (Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") < 0f) { if (selectedWeapon >= transform.childCount - 1) selectedWeapon = 0; else selectedWeapon++; } if (Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") > 0f) { if (selectedWeapon = 2) { selectedWeapon = 1; } if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha3) && transform.childCount >= 3) { selectedWeapon = 2; } if (previousSelectedWeapon != selectedWeapon) { StartCoroutine(SelectWeapon()); SelectWeapon(); } #region Selection bools if (selectedWeapon == 0) { Selected1 = true; } else { Selected1 = false; } if (selectedWeapon == 1) { Selected2 = true; } else { Selected2 = false; } if (selectedWeapon == 2) { Selected3 = true; } else { Selected3 = false; } #endregion #region transitions if(Selected1 == true && weapon1.activeSelf == true) { weapon1.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon1.transform.localPosition, position1, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } else { weapon1.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon1.transform.localPosition, position2, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } if (Selected2 == true && weapon2.activeSelf == true) { weapon2.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon2.transform.localPosition, position1, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } else { weapon2.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon2.transform.localPosition, position2, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } if (Selected3 == true && weapon3.activeSelf == true) { weapon3.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon3.transform.localPosition, position1, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } else { weapon3.transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(weapon3.transform.localPosition, position2, WeaponSwitchSpeed * Time.deltaTime); } #endregion } IEnumerator SelectWeapon() { yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f); int i = 0; foreach (Transform weapon in transform) { if (i == selectedWeapon) weapon.gameObject.SetActive(true); else weapon.gameObject.SetActive(false); i++; } } }

[@LorcanG]

keep the position 1 at 0x 0y 0z and for position 2 x0.5 y-0.5 z-0.5 worked for me

[@atomicalex1732]

bro thats awesome, thanks

[@Markleap]

my gun go in my head, how would i fix?

[@LorcanG]

@@Markleap move the game object coordinates (the gun) forward

[@AZASeraph]

For whatever reason it works when I scroll, but not with the keys and I've made sure it's the right code and all too

[@nikodemhamrol9025]

So if I had like 50 weapons in the game, how would you then go about handling those weapons. In terms of getting the transformation correct, animations, loaded into the scene. Because I dont imagine someone using this method. Im not complaining on the video, it's a great tutorial if you small amounts of weapons, but my curiosity is how to handle a bunch of weapons

[@gaminganimator-qp2ir]

use the scroll wheel instead it will work fine then

[@nikodemhamrol9025]

@@gaminganimator-qp2ir so you would hold 50 weapons in one hand scroll through 50 weapons?

[@gaminganimator-qp2ir]

@@nikodemhamrol9025 yea

[@nikodemhamrol9025]

@@gaminganimator-qp2ir name a game that does that

[@gaminganimator-qp2ir]

@@nikodemhamrol9025 the game im working on

[@mashoodkiyani3992]

Your teaching style is amazing

[@nikkiofthevalley]

oh god.. Just use Fusion 360, it's both easier to use and less time-consuming, but isn't free :(

[@MARTOUFFF06]

Why not use the modulus operator when cycling the weapons ? Which solution is more optimized ?

[@MaZyYTube]

Both are same. Compiler will change to same machine code. Its about readability or comfortably

[@user-th8nx4cp7w]

For some people like me you might have this problem where when foreach the transform, it acess the transform on the WeaponSwitcher too, so when you use your scroll wheel and keep scrolling up, you could end up in a empty space where the player is holding nothing. To deal with that, I add - public Transform weaponSwitcher -, and under the foreach -if(weapon.transform.IsChildOf(weaponSwitcer)){//rest of the code}