Okay, so I am making a game with a friend, based around liquids. It’s an endless 2D side-scroller and you control liquid/water. The problem is when I want to create water and move it, like a normal character. The mechanics will be that it will pick up more water as it goes across, and will loose water over time.
Question is, would anybody like to give me an idea with the best way to approach this? Thank you!
I’m not sure about water, but maybe you could use ‘sand’. I haven’t tried something like this but and it would probably lag badly, but worth saying it.
If you had thousands of tiny spheres with low/no friction, with a rigidbody wouldn’t it work the same?
I’m not quite certain as I’m fairly new to Unity, but maybe it could work 🙂
Here are some ideas that may help you 😀
-Make a Trail with the Trail Renderer to make it look like you are losing water. !
Use a Water Meter to tell the player how much water you have left.
Then put some Water Drops around to fill up the Water Meter.
So If your Water Meter is Full make the Trail of water bigger, and if is empty make it look tiny.
Here I will leave you some info and examples about the Trail Renderer.
Trail Renderer Unity3D
Hope this help you to figure it out 🙂
You should really make good use of the Shuriken Particle System here (or a custom shader but that would be hard to write). Simply expand the emission sphere + the amount of particles as the water ball grows 🙂
