Health
The Health System makes it easy to not just set up destructible vehicles and objects of all kinds, but also create damageable parts on a bigger vehicles, such as capital ships.
The core components of the Health System are:
- Damageable
- Damage Receiver
- Health Modifier
- Health
A Damageable component represents an object which can be damaged (or healed). This component has a specified 'Health Type' you can set in the inspector, and has a health value which can range from zero to a specified maximum value.
Add a Damageable component for any object (or part of a vehicle) that you wish to be damaged by weapons or collisions.
When a weapon such as a projectile or a beam hits a damageable object, it searches for a Damage Receiver component on the same game object as the collider. This enables it to efficiently pass damage (or healing) information to the Damageable that the collider represents.
Add a Damage Receiver component to the game object of every collider representing a Damageable object.
The Damage Receiver is basically a channel for passing damage (or healing) information through the collider to the Damageable.
Health Modifiers are added to bullets, missiles, explosions or anything else that is capable of damaging something.
The Health component may be added to the root transform of an object which has one or more Damageables. It has several key functions:
- Storing information about all the Damageables on the object, for easy access by other scripts.
- Enables easy switching on/off of whether all the Damageables on the object are damageable or healable.
- Enables collisions to cause damage.
Add a Health component to the root transform of an object to manage its health from one place.
NOTE: A Health component is required for any object that can be damaged by collisions.
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