UGTK / Toolkit / Component Module / Dash Component Completed

Dash System

Summary

The Dash System enables a dash action for characters, temporarily increasing their movement speed.

Content

Modules Dependencies
Setup
How To Use
Testing Scene
Technical Info

Modules Dependencies

The Dash System module requires the following dependencies:

GenericComponent: Ensures components have a MonoBehaviour owner, enabling interaction with parent objects
MovementComponent: Components for controlling object movement: speed, direction, bounds, and coordinate limits.

Ensure that these dependencies are correctly imported and configured in your project.

Setup

Add DashComponent Prefab to your game object:

How To Use

Set direction, dashSpeed, dashDuration and dashCooldown of your Dash Component:

Testing Scene

Open DashScene in the module's Scene/ folder: one cube on a floor, with the dash component attached as a child.

What to do, in order:

Enter Play Mode and press Trigger Dash. Outside Play Mode the button is disabled: the dash runs as a coroutine, and coroutines do not run with the editor stopped.
Turn on Debug Mode and dash again. The console prints the speed going up, the dash starting, the speed returning to zero and the cooldown beginning - which is the whole life of a dash in four lines.
Press the button twice in quick succession, then dash into a wall.

Step 3 is where a dash usually breaks. A second dash starting before the first has finished can leave the movement state stuck, which is what the cooldown is there to prevent; and a dash that moves the transform directly - as this one does - can push a character through a collider, so the demo is the place to find out how far yours travels per dash before a level does it for you.