In Paula Wilder Ritt version main task was to realize a companion which follows the game character with a slight delay and when player uses special ability spins around while continuing to follow. While the following itself could be simply done by lerping the raven model towards the point with offset from the character model it creates issues when we need to rotate it around without involving complex calculations. This is solved by creating a parent for the raven model that has the player position. So by rotating it we can make raven to fly around Paula in circles without complicated positional calculations.

In order to control the precise amount of turns around the player I track how much half turns raven made and when it reached the specified amount the rotation stops.

Main new feature that I had to implement was player super power that allows to replace all obstacles present in the screen with collectable coins. In order to do so I had to extend the obstacle and coin management systems.

I have created a separate pool for the coins to be spawned instead of obstacles. This allowed to change the variety of the spawned coins and avoid unnecessary object respawn. By triggering the ability method I am replacing the coins in the positions of the currently active obstacles while disabling them.

In Paula: Meeres Abenteurer instead of replacing all of the currently active obstacles player activates the beam which by touching obstacles destroys them. In order to avoid costly raycast I simply check if current player Y value is close enough with any of the active obstacles and if it is I move them out of the players way. This is possible because the amount of active obstacles in the scene is low and its way cheaper to check with all of them instead of calling raycast on update.