Bug Fix on Model Flip
Fixing the sprite flip on player and enemy models
While working on the hitbox animation for the Moss Giant, I noticed that all sprite models that require to flip on the X axis does so without the hitbox flipping as well.
This causes some bad interactions when the player is on the left side of the all enemy models. As I dwell deeper I also noticed that the Player model also suffers from this same problem. Since the hitbox is a special case with no sprite renderer, we are unable to use the Renderer FlipX function when the model needs to flip.
Fixing the Problem:
The logic behind the solution is quite simple, instead of flipping just the sprite when either the enemy is near the point destination or required to face the player, we can instead flip the entire parent object which houses both the sprite and hitbox.
Player Script:
Within our Player script we would need to replace our Sprite Renderer with the parent object which we will targeting the Transform component. We can call this new variable “_playerFlip”.
With the Sprite Renderer commented out, we will also need to comment out the methods that require the Sprite then we are going to use the Transform component and place a -1 on the X scale value. This negative value would cause the entire game object to flip including the sprite and hitbox.
The proper script would be using the local scale and giving the transform component a new Vector3 value where only the X axis changes to the negative 1.
Now you can see that the player flips according to the direction along with the hitbox. We can apply the same method for the Enemy Parent script.
Enemy Script:
In the Enemy script we are going to do the same thing by targeting the parent game object and it’s Transform component we can flip the entire model including the hitbox.
In within the facing player method, we can use the same method for flipping the model.
As you can see from the result on the bottom, we have successfully fix the issue, and all models including the player will flip accordingly.
