Week 5

I learnt how to do this from a post on the Unity Forums by davinc131 (2016) and a post on Stack Overflow by Malkijan (2020).

To have a scene camera project onto a UI element, I used a Render Texture and assigned it as the target texture for the Main Camera. Then, in my canvas, I created a new Raw Image and set the texture as the Render Texture I just created. To get the specific panel shown in the picture to the right, I resized it to an 8:7 aspect ratio, and then created a panel, set it to black, made it slightly bigger than the Raw Image element and placed it behind the Raw Image element to separate it from the background.

My approach

The concept for the pitfall trap is pretty simple: the pit below the trap returns the player to the start of the trap. I took a look at some of the code from the MultiCoinChest.cs page I made for project 1 of GAD170 back in trimester 2, more specifically part 1 of Section 3: Making the chest interactive to the player and setting up for Section, where the trigger functionality for the chest is set. Borrowing some of the code from there, I set up the following code below (comments removed): 

public PlayerControllerThatLevelsUp playerControllerThatLevelsUp;

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

   {

      if (other.gameObject.GetComponent<PlayerControllerThatLevelsUp>())

      {

         Debug.Log("Trigger activated!");

            other.gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(-2f,6.1f,10.961f);

One thing with this code is that the way it teleports the player back to the start is not the method I intended to use. I used this method as a temporary solution to get the trap working, and I then fixed this issue with Glen's approach.