[Unity/Playmaker] How to make a VR shooting game – Advance preparation

In How to Build a VR Shooting Game, I will show you how to build a VR shooting game using Unity and Playmaker, upload it to STYLY, and publish it.

In this article, I’ll explain the settings of Playmaker and the preliminary preparations for importing the game materials into Unity.

1. Advance preparation
2. Gun Controller Settings
3. Setting up the bullets
4. How to generate enemy characters
5. Enemy Character Settings
6. BGM and SE Settings
7. How to upload to STYLY

Part.1-7 continues, so let’s read and make it to the end!

About VR shooting games made with Unity and Playmaker

The girl is running at full speed towards the player.

This game involves firing teddy bears from a bowgun and hitting the girls.

 

You can try out the sample game in the STYLY GALLERY.

 

Will you be able to survive this adorable attack? 

Advance preparation

You should install PlayMaker, a plugin for Unity, beforehand.

If you are new to using PlayMaker, please read the following articles to gain a better understanding of it.

Downloading assets for the game

How to manage your files

Check the Assets folder and create the following three folders.

• myPrefabs: Save all of the prefabs you’ll make in this project
• myScenes: Save all the scenes (this time only one scene)
• myUnityAssets: Create myUnityAssets: subfolder myAudio

Download the Asset

Next, open the Unity Asset Store.

Download the following assets from the Unity Asset Store and import them into your Unity project.

First person lover – weapons pack
Bowguns and teddy bears being fired

Futuristic weapons set
The sound of a teddy bear being fired from the bowgun.

Amane Kisora-chan(FREE ver)
The girl who comes at the player

Asset Store Affiliate Textlink, Icon or Widget
Girl’s voice when she takes damage

Asset Store Affiliate Textlink, Icon or Widget
BGM for the space

Floor Segment
Stage

Organize your downloaded assets

Move them all to the myUnityAssets folder when you’re done.

Click on the RPGPuzzleGameMusic folder, then the Music folder, then the Looping folder, and then the Wav folder, then select and drag the Boss Fight track to the myAudio folder.

Now that the necessary music tracks have been moved, delete the RPGPuzzleGameMusic folder.

This shortens the upload time to STYLY and reduces clutter in the project. 

Follow the same procedure, click on the mai_free_voices folder, select the wav folder and choose the audio file titled mai_free_08_damage and move it to the myAudio folder.

This also removes the mai_free_voices folder to avoid unnecessary clutter.

Finally, find the FuturisticWeaponSet folder and click on the hand_gun folder.

Take the only music file stored there, shot_hand_gun, and drag it into the myAudio folder.

Then erase the FuturisticWeaponSet folder completely.

After these processes, your myUnityAssets and myAudio folders should look like the following 

Unity Settings

Open the Playmaker Editor

Go to the Playmaker tab on the top menu bar and select “Playmaker Editor” to open the editor.

Next, use the Playmaker tab to click on the editor and drag it to the appropriate position.

In this article I have placed it at the bottom left of the screen for easy access.

Add Action Browser

Next, click on the Playmaker tab on the top menu bar again, and then click on “Action Browser” under the Editor Windows submenu.

This will open a separate window where you can easily add the “actions” you need in Playmaker.

Click on the window and drag it to where you want to place it.

In this article, I have added it just to the right of the Playmaker menu at the bottom of the screen.

Reset the Main Camera position

Next, we reset the “Main Camera” position because in VR, we want to be the camera ourselves rather than looking at the scene from a distance.

Select Main Camera in the scene’s Hierarchy, then click on the little gear icon, and select Reset from the Settings menu.

Create an empty Game Object

Finally, we need to create an empty Game Object in the scene’s Hierarchy.

This game object acts as the parent of the rest of the game objects.

In this article we will store all game objects as children of this empty parent object, and finally upload this prefab to STYLY.

Once you have created your game object, name it “PlayMaker Tutorial Game”.

Now you’re ready to make your own game!

Next time we will be setting up a gun to use in a VR shooting game!