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Adding a little flair
In an ode to the fantastic game
Star Command
(
http://www.starcommandgame.com/
)
,
where when a battle starts there is a little introductory animation that introduces the two
parties in battle, I added the
Intro
state sequence, which currently just displays a mes-
sage about the battle.
Tip
I was going to add a full animation to zoom and highlight the player and the goblins and
then show the
vs
message, but I'll leave that up to you to play with. Can't have all the fun
now, can I?
Currently, the state machine pauses at the
Intro
state for a few seconds, so while it's
paused, let's add a simple GUI dialog to tell the player about the impending battle. Simply
add the following to the
case
line of the
Intro
state in the
OnGUI
function:
case BattleState.Intro
GUI.Box(new Rect((Screen.width / 2) - 150 , 50, 300, 50),
"Battle between Player and Goblins");
break;
Now the player is informed that a battle is about to happen whether they like it or not (and
now he cannot run away again, yet!).
