Assets/Project Files/Scripts/JoonasP/EssenceNodeController.cs

@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ public class EssenceNodeController : MonoBehaviour
     private bool followPlayer = false;
     private Transform player;
 
+    private float timer;
+    private Material nodeMaterial;
+
+    private Coroutine decayCo;
+
+    private void Awake()
+    {
+        nodeMaterial = GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
+    }
+
     public void Touched()
     {
         if (!isTouched)
@@ -20,6 +30,7 @@ public class EssenceNodeController : MonoBehaviour
             GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = Color.cyan;
             chime.Play();
             isTouched = true;
+            StopCoroutine(decayCo);
         }
     }
 
@@ -27,7 +38,7 @@ public class EssenceNodeController : MonoBehaviour
     {
         followPlayer = true;
         player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("MainCamera").transform;
-        StartCoroutine(Despawn());
+        StartCoroutine(Collect());
 
     }
 
@@ -36,16 +47,33 @@ public class EssenceNodeController : MonoBehaviour
         chime.pitch = value;
     }
 
+    public void SetTimer(float seconds)
+    {
+        timer = seconds;
+        decayCo = StartCoroutine(Decay());
+    }
 
-    IEnumerator Despawn()
+
+    IEnumerator Collect()
     {
         yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
         //TODO: Update value in player inventory
         Destroy(gameObject);
     }
 
+    IEnumerator Decay()
+    {
+        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timer);
+        Destroy(gameObject);
+    }
+
     private void Update()
     {
+        if (!isTouched)
+        {
+            //A way to either linearly reduce the alpha value of color or fade the color to gray (must react to changing timer values)
+        }
+
         if (followPlayer)
         {
             transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, new Vector3(player.position.x,player.position.y - 0.5f, player.position.z), Time.deltaTime);

Assets/Project Files/Scripts/JoonasP/WellController.cs

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ public class WellController : MonoBehaviour
     private List<GameObject> nodes = new List<GameObject>();
 
     public float spawnDelay;
-    //public float despawnTime;
+    public float despawnTime;
 
 
     private Transform player;
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ public class WellController : MonoBehaviour
     {
         if(i == numberOfNodes)
         {
+            yield return new WaitForSeconds((despawnTime - spawnDelay) * 2); //Wait for all of the nodes to despawn
             foreach(GameObject node in nodes)
             {
                 node.GetComponent<EssenceNodeController>().FollowPlayer();
@@ -49,18 +50,15 @@ public class WellController : MonoBehaviour
         }
 
         GameObject tempNode = Instantiate(node, nodeSpawn, Quaternion.identity);
+        tempNode.GetComponent<EssenceNodeController>().SetTimer(2f);
         tempNode.GetComponent<AudioSource>().pitch = pitch;
         nodeSpawn = nodeSpawn + right * rightDistance + Random.Range(minDown, maxUp) * up;
         yield return new WaitForSeconds(spawnDelay);
+        StartCoroutine(SpawnNode(nodeSpawn, pitch, i + 1));
+        yield return new WaitForSeconds(despawnTime - spawnDelay);
         if (tempNode.GetComponent<EssenceNodeController>().isTouched)
         {
             nodes.Add(tempNode);
-            StartCoroutine(SpawnNode(nodeSpawn, pitch + 0.1f, i + 1));
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            Destroy(tempNode);
-            StartCoroutine(SpawnNode(nodeSpawn, pitch, i + 1));
         }
     }
 

Assets/Scenes/JoonasP/SampleScene.unity

@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ MonoBehaviour:
   node: {fileID: 3467985268477833302, guid: 1e00d72d45b494a4ea598ff34d46a589, type: 3}
   numberOfNodes: 5
   spawnDelay: 1
+  despawnTime: 2
   rightDistance: 0.1
   maxUp: 0.2
   minDown: -0.2

ProjectSettings/ProjectSettings.asset

@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ PlayerSettings:
   - {fileID: 0}
   - {fileID: 0}
   - {fileID: 0}
+  - {fileID: 0}
   metroInputSource: 0
   wsaTransparentSwapchain: 0
   m_HolographicPauseOnTrackingLoss: 1