The actual launching script for the Distraction Cannon is almost a straight copy of the firing mechanism for the normal rifle which you can see here, except with the ammo capacity set lower, the time between firing set higher, and sound effects switched out.
So we'll move on to the script for the dummy itself, which is actually fairly simple.
This block set “freezes” the dummy in place when it hits a surface so it seems like it sticks wherever it hits, which is actually just stopping all physical forces on the dummy and telling it to ignore gravity.
Edit: One of the reasons I'm doing these write ups is so I force myself to go back through my own thrown together code and find problems. After reviewing this one, I realized I'd made a hasty mistake and was actually setting the global gravity to 0 every time I fired a dummy. To fix this, I cut out the "Set Gravity" block and just set the rigid-body for the dummy to ignore gravity itself. As fun as it was to be able to moon bounce after firing the dummy, that was never really the intention. Back to the usual programming.
This next block sets a scene boolean as true once the dummy spawns into the world to signal to the enemies that they should be turning their attention away from the player to the dummy. Then a block tells the script to pause for a few seconds so the player can do whatever they need to do, before setting the “Distraction” boolean as false so the enemies will turn their attention back to the player.
Here’s a snippet of that enemy script in action.
After that, there’s a block that spawns an explosion particle effect into the world at the position of the dummy, and a simple block for destroying the dummy when it’s no longer useful.
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