I wrote a simple timer script, after the timer reaches 0 it loads a new scene. But it keeps continuously loading the scene instead of once not allowing the scene it loads to be played. I just need it to load the scene once.
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class Timer : MonoBehaviour
{
public float timelimit;
public Text text;
public void ChangeScene(int changeTheScene)
{
SceneManager.LoadScene(changeTheScene);
}
void Update()
{
timelimit -= Time.deltaTime;
text.text = "TimerText:" + Mathf.Round(timelimit);
if (timelimit < 0)
{
timelimit = 0;
SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
}
}
}
NOTE: your code as described won't cause the issue you describe. I see two possibilities:
your newly loaded scene has the same component in it, which repeatedly loads the scene
you are actually loading the scene additively so this component continues to run after the load.
Assuming the latter, if you follow your code through, you'll see that your if statement has a condition that will always be true once the timelimit is reached:
Every frame you subtract a number from timelimit. Then, if timelimit is now less than zero, set timelimit to zero and load the scene.
If you've set timelimit to zero in the previous frame, and then subtract a number, it will always be less than zero: you'll always load the scene again on each subsequent frame.
Try instead using a boolean variable to track whether you've loaded the scene or not. Or alternatively, destroy the component as soon as you load the scene, so that your code stops running.
If the problem is actually that you have this component in your new scene, too... consider removing it! :-)
EDIT:
Try instead using a boolean variable to track whether you've loaded
the scene or not.
public class Timer : MonoBehaviour
{
public float timelimit;
public Text text;
static bool loadedScene = false;
public void ChangeScene(int changeTheScene)
{
//SceneManager.LoadScene(changeTheScene);
}
void Update()
{
//Exit if we have already loaded scene
if (loadedScene)
{
//Destroy Timer Text
Destroy(text.gameObject);
//Destroy this Timer GameObject and Script
Destroy(gameObject);
return;
}
timelimit -= Time.deltaTime;
text.text = "TimerText:" + Mathf.Round(timelimit);
if (timelimit < 0)
{
timelimit = 0;
loadedScene = true; //We have loaded Scene so mark it true
SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
}
}
}
You're timelimit might not be initialized. Did you make sure it isn't set to 0 in the Unity Editor?
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I am trying to do when i destroy all boxes something happen.
My code is;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class destroy : MonoBehaviour
{
private string BALL_TAG = "ball";
public AudioClip coin;
public AudioSource src;
public float numBox = 120f;
public bool isDestroyed;
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag(BALL_TAG))
{
src.clip = coin;
src.Play();
Destroy(gameObject);
isDestroyed = true;
}
}
private void Update()
{
boxes();
}
public void boxes()
{
if(isDestroyed == true)
numBox -= 1f;
if(numBox == 119)
SceneManager.LoadScene("mainManu");
}
private IEnumerator Two()
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
Destroy(gameObject);
}
}
But it doesn't work.
It is suppose to do when I broke 1 box it sends me to menu.
I think its problem in "numBox -= 1f;" because I don't know hot to make this.
I don't understand your code completely. So, I need to make some assumptions.
I think the Script is attached to the box and every box has this Script. I also think, that your player Shoots Ball. Those Balls have a collider with an ball tag.
There are multiple problems with your code.
The first one is, that your count variable, numBox, is saved in your destroy Script, which is placed on each box.
this means, that every Box is counting for itself.
You have to centralize this. There are multiple ways for doing this.
One way is to declare this variable as static(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/static)
This is not best practice, but works.
A Better way is to have a Script on Your Player, which holds this number and every Box searches for this Script and change this number if it is destroyed.
The second big Problem is, that your are doing some really weird thing in your Update and the collision handling
First of all, you are setting isDestroyed to true. Then in your boxes method, which is called in every Frame, you are decrementing your numBox variable by one, if this is Destroyed is true.
So if your Box gets hit, you are decrementing every frame.
After that you are checking every frame if your numBox is 119
If so, you change the Scene.
This is the reason, why you are getting to your MainMenu after only one boy
This behaviour is very weird, because it is totally unnecessary. You can reduce your variable directly in in your OnCollisionEnter2D Method.
There are some little things, which can be improved.
When you are trying to play a Sound, you don't have to specify the AudioClip in code. You can assign this directly in Unity on the AudioSource Component via drag and drop. This makes your code simpler.
You are not calling the Two Coroutine. You've specified this Coroutine but don't call it.
//Script on Player
public class PlayerBoxDestroyManager:MonoBehaviour
{
public int StartBoxes = 120;
private int Boxes;
private void Start()
{
Boxes = StartBoxes;
}
public void DestroyBox()
{
//Reduce our Boxes count
//This is equal to Boxes -= 1
// Boxes = Boxes -1
Boxes--;
// If we have less or zero Boxes left, we End call our EndGame methode
if(Boxes <= 0)
{
EndGame();
}
}
private void EndGame()
{
// We change the Scene to the mainMenu
SceneManager.LoadScene("mainManu");
}
}
```
//Script on all Boxes
public class Box : MonoBehaviour
{
public string Balltag = "ball";
//Audio Source the Audio Clip has to be assigned in the Unity editor
public AudioSource Coin;
private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
//Check it colliding Object has the right Tag
if(collision.transform.tag == Balltag)
{
//Get the reference to the Player Script
PlayerBoxDestroyManager PBDM = FindObjectOfType<PlayerBoxDestroyManager>();
//We can now access the Destroy Box Methode
PBDM.DestroyBox();
//Play the sound
Coin.Play();
//If we destroy our Object now, the Sound would also be deletet.
//We want to hear the sound, so we have to wait, till the sound is finished.
StartCoroutine(WaitTillAudioIsFinished());
}
}
IEnumerator WaitTillAudioIsFinished()
{
//we wait till the sound is finished
while (Coin.isPlaying)
{
yield return null;
}
//if finished, we destroy the Gameobject
Destroy(gameObject);
}
}
I hope I helped you. If you have questions, feel free to ask.
And sorry for my English:)
so I'm wanting to pause the game once the amount of enemies hits 0. So I'm using GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy").Length to find the number of enemies. I put this in a function that's called right when the enemies are instantiated so I can see the length go to 4, as there's 4 enemies spawning. When an enemy is killed the function is called again where the length is printed to console again. For some reason, on the first enemy killed the count repeats with a 4 again despite there only being 3 enemies. Once another enemy is killed it reports 3 when there's actually 2 and so on until I get to 1 when there's 0 enemies.
Here's the first snippet of code:
public class EnemyList : MonoBehaviour
{
public List<GameObject> weakMobs = new List<GameObject>();
public List<GameObject> mediumMobs = new List<GameObject>();
public List<GameObject> bossMobs = new List<GameObject>();
public List<Transform> spawningChildren = new List<Transform>();
public static int mobCount;
void Start()
{
for (int i = 0; i < spawningChildren.Count; i++)
{
GameObject newWeakMob = Instantiate(weakMobs[0], spawningChildren[Random.Range(0, 4)]) as GameObject;
}
CheckMobCount();
}
public void CheckMobCount()
{
mobCount = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy").Length;
print(mobCount);
}
The next piece of code is where the enemy is killed and the CheckMobCount() is called again.
public void TakeDamage()
{
enemyCurrentHealth -= 25;
enemyHealthBar.SetHealth(enemyCurrentHealth);
if (enemyCurrentHealth == 0)
{
Destroy(this.gameObject);
enemyList.CheckMobCount();
//needs death animations
}
}
Here's the console messages:
Console of printed lengths
I'm self taught so I apologize if this is elementary. I've tried doing this several different ways and this is the closest I've been but I'm open to new ideas as well.
Thank you!!
As noted in this answer, the object is not actually destroyed in the current frame.
From the documentation:
The object obj is destroyed immediately after the current Update loop… Actual object destruction is always delayed until after the current Update loop, but is always done before rendering.
I also agree that using DestroyImmediate() is a bad idea.
Ultimately, your question seems to really be about pausing the game when the enemy count reaches 0, which unfortunately hasn't actually been answered yet.
In fact, you don't really need to do anything different except move the check for the enemy count to the beginning of the Update() method, and pause the game there if it's 0. Then you'll find that the component for the enemy has been destroyed at that point.
Presumably enemies are spawned before the update loop starts (i.e. before the first frame), but if not then you can use whatever logic you're already using to decide that new enemies need to be spawned, to detect the fact that you haven't spawned any yet and avoid pausing before the enemies have spawned.
Here you have attached your script to your enemy instances. And they are still alive when you are querying for the number of enemies left.
You should do the following:
public class Enemy: MonoBehaviour
{
public static int EnemyCount = 0;
private void Start()
{
EnemyCount++;
}
private void OnDestroy()
{
EnemyCount--;
}
}
And then you can query the enemy count from anywhere but just excessing the EnemyCount by Enemy.EnemyCount.
If you want to get a more difficult example then you can check out this Game Dev tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBRLg4c5F8&t=134s
Destroy is actually executed at the end of the frame. There is DestroyImmediate that is executed immidiatelly but it's not recommended to be used. What I would do is to add a field or a property to identify whether the enemy is still alive and then to check against it. Something like:
class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
public bool IsAlive { get; set; } = true;
}
public class EnemyList : MonoBehaviour
{
//...
public void CheckMobCount()
{
mobCount = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy").Select(x => x.GetComponent<Enemy>()).Count(x => x.IsAlive);
print(mobCount);
}
}
And then:
public void TakeDamage()
{
enemyCurrentHealth -= 25;
enemyHealthBar.SetHealth(enemyCurrentHealth);
if (enemyCurrentHealth == 0)
{
Destroy(this.gameObject);
this.GetComponent<Enemy>().IsAlive = false;
enemyList.CheckMobCount();
//needs death animations
}
}
This can be further optimized to store the Enemy somewhere and not use GetComponent every time but you get the idea.
As already mentioned by others the issue is that Destroy is executed delayed.
Actual object destruction is always delayed until after the current Update loop, but is always done before rendering.
You could simply count only the GameObjects that are still alive, those for which the bool operator is true.
Does the object exist?
It will be false for objects destroyed in that same frame.
E.g. using Linq Count
using System.Linq;
....
mobCount = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy").Count(e => e);
which basically equals doing
mobCount = 0;
foreach(e in GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Enemy"))
{
if(e) mobCount++;
}
There is no need for an additional property or Component.
I am suggesting you to use “DestroyImmediate” instead of “Destroy”，Then look at the result.
I have a better idea, why not just use static variables when spawning enemies?
void Start()
{
for (int i = 0; i < spawningChildren.Count; i++)
{
GameObject newWeakMob = Instantiate(weakMobs[0],
spawningChildren[Random.Range(0, 4)]) as GameObject;
mobCount++;
}
}
Do not use Linq
Do not use DestroyImmediate (it will freeze and bug your game, probably)
Avoid FindGameObjectsWithTag in loops, only in initialization.
Track your enemies in an array or list
When you destroy an enemy, remove it's reference from the list
Use the list count/length to get the real actual number.
I'm just starting out please excuse vast ignorance.
I'm writing a c# script in unity as part of the essentials training. I'm doing the 3d audio module and I thought I'd try and get a little bit fancier than the scope of this particular lesson which is supposed to be having an object fly through a window in a pre-built scene and make a 3d sound as it moves.
I wanted to make the movement of the object conditional upon a player moving close to it in 3d space. I figured out how to trigger the movement of an object in a script with an if statement that changes the transform parameters of the object the script is attached to when a 'distanceFromObject' variable is < 2. It works, however the script runs in the update section of the script which runs once every frame. This means that the object's transform parameters are changed every frame as expected but of course stops doing so when the distance between the object that's moving and the player exceeds 2.
I see the mistake I've made because if the object moves away when the player gets close then it will inevitably eventually move far enough away that the distanceFromObject variable will grow bigger than 2 whereupon it stops and just hovers in place. I don't know how to fix it though.
I need the script to check the distance between the object and the player every frame so that it will trigger the instance the player gets close enough, and when they get close enough, I need the object to move away, however once it has been triggered to move, I need the object to continue moving, but the script to stop checking what the distance is anymore.
The script looks like this
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class FlyOff : MonoBehaviour
{
public Vector3 rotateChange;
public Vector3 positionChange;
public float distanceFromObject;
public GameObject character;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
distanceFromObject = Vector3.Distance(character.transform.position, this.gameObject.transform.position);
print (distanceFromObject);
if (distanceFromObject < 2)
{
transform.Rotate (rotateChange);
transform.position += positionChange;
}
}
}
Use flags instead of writing your logic in the if statement :
public class FlyOff : MonoBehaviour
{
// fields removed for more readability
// use a flag that's set to true/false
private bool isCloseEnough = false;
void Update()
{
distanceFromObject = Vector3.Distance(character.transform.position, this.gameObject.transform.position);
print (distanceFromObject);
// set the flag to true when player is close enough
if (distanceFromObject < 2)
{
isCloseEnough = true;
}
// even if the player gets far, the flag will remain true
if (isCloseEnough)
{
transform.Rotate (rotateChange);
transform.position += positionChange;
}
}
}
You can even apply the opposite logic to stop the object to move away when it has reach a certain distance :
if (distanceFromObject < 2)
{
isCloseEnough = true;
}
else if (distanceFromObject > SomeValue)
{
isCloseEnough = false;
}
If I understand correctly you could just add a bool flag and set it once you are close enough. Then you can start moving and skip further distance checks but keep moving forever.
private bool flyAway;
void Update()
{
if(!flyAway)
{
distanceFromObject = Vector3.Distance(character.transform.position, transform.position);
print (distanceFromObject);
if (distanceFromObject < 2)
{
flyAway = true;
}
}
else
{
transform.Rotate (rotateChange);
transform.position += positionChange;
}
}
In general: Avoid using print every frame! Even if you user doesn't see the log in a built app it is still causing overhead!
I've been working on a simple 2D game in unity and it just has three scenes, the start scene, the game scene, and the game over scene. I want to display the score from the game in the game over screen. I created a score manager game object in the game scene that uses the DontDestroyOnLoad() function to carry it over into the game over screen and I gave it access to the score which is managed by the game manager. I've been debugging my code and the score is translated over into the score manager and is maintained when the game over screen loads, but for some reason it won't let me update the score text object. Here is my code:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class ScoreManager : MonoBehaviour {
public static ScoreManager Instance;
private GameController gameController;
private int scoreInstance;
private Text scoreText;
// When scene is first loaded
void Awake() {
this.InstantiateController();
}
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
GameObject gameControllerObject = GameObject.FindWithTag("GameController");
if (gameControllerObject != null)
{
gameController = gameControllerObject.GetComponent<GameController>();
}
GameObject scoreTextObject = GameObject.FindWithTag("ScoreText");
if (scoreTextObject != null)
{
scoreText = scoreTextObject.GetComponent<Text>();
}
scoreInstance = 0;
scoreText.text = "";
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
scoreInstance = gameController.score;
Debug.Log("Score: " + scoreInstance.ToString());
scoreText.text = scoreInstance.ToString();
}
private void InstantiateController ()
{
if (Instance == null)
{
Instance = this;
DontDestroyOnLoad(this);
}
else if (this != Instance)
{
Destroy(this.gameObject);
}
}
}
So I tried to programmatically gather the "score text" ui component in the start function because I figured I can't just make it public and drag in the text component because the score manager is actually in a different scene than the score text object. I also tried adding this whole bit of code to gather the text component into the update function so that it can do that when the score manager is actually a part of game over screen. Nothing seems to work and I have no idea why. Can anybody please help me with this? Also I keep getting a "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error. Thanks in advance for any help.
Unity Start function is only called the first time the script is enabled, i.e. not every time the scene changes for a DontDestroyOnLoad object.
So if you need to wire up some changes after a scene change, you need to either detect the scene change, or have an object that starts in that scene trigger the code you want to run.
Having another object on the new scene trigger things is easy and pretty fool-proof, but there's a builtin function you can add to your other objects:
void OnLevelWasLoaded(int currentLevel)
{
}
This will be called on level changes, and give you the level's number (not name sadly). However, the above is deprecated and they want you to use Unity's SceneManager, so the proper way to set this up is now:
Unity 5 OnLevelWasLoaded?
Start()
{
SceneManager.sceneLoaded += this.OnLoadCallback;
}
void OnLoadCallback(Scene scene, LoadSceneMode sceneMode)
{
// you can query the name of the loaded scene here
}
How can I create a flashing object in Unity using SetActiveRecursively (Moment = 1 second).
My example (for changes):
public GameObject flashing_Label;
private float timer;
void Update()
{
while(true)
{
flashing_Label.SetActiveRecursively(true);
timer = Time.deltaTime;
if(timer > 1)
{
flashing_Label.SetActiveRecursively(false);
timer = 0;
}
}
}
Use InvokeRepeating:
public GameObject flashing_Label;
public float interval;
void Start()
{
InvokeRepeating("FlashLabel", 0, interval);
}
void FlashLabel()
{
if(flashing_Label.activeSelf)
flashing_Label.SetActive(false);
else
flashing_Label.SetActive(true);
}
Take a look on unity WaitForSeconds function.
By passing int param. (seconds), you can toggle your gameObject.
bool fadeIn = true;
IEnumerator Toggler()
{
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
fadeIn = !fadeIn;
}
then call this function by StartCoroutine(Toggler()).
You can use the Coroutines and new Unity 4.6 GUI to achieve this very easily. Check this article here which falsges a Text. YOu can modify it easily for gameobject easily
Blinking Text - TGC
If you just need the code, here you go
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
public class FlashingTextScript : MonoBehaviour {
Text flashingText;
void Start(){
//get the Text component
flashingText = GetComponent<Text>();
//Call coroutine BlinkText on Start
StartCoroutine(BlinkText());
}
//function to blink the text
public IEnumerator BlinkText(){
//blink it forever. You can set a terminating condition depending upon your requirement
while(true){
//set the Text's text to blank
flashingText.text= "";
//display blank text for 0.5 seconds
yield return new WaitForSeconds(.5f);
//display “I AM FLASHING TEXT” for the next 0.5 seconds
flashingText.text= "I AM FLASHING TEXT!";
yield return new WaitForSeconds(.5f);
}
}
}
P.S: Even though it seems to be an infinite loop which is generally considered as a bad programming practice, in this case it works quite well as the MonoBehaviour will be destroyed once the object is destroyed. Also, if you dont need it to flash forever, you can add a terminating condition based on your requirements.
Simple way is to use InvokeRepeating() and CancelInvoke() method.
InvokeRepeating("BlinkText",0,0.3) will repeatedly call BlinkText() for every 0.03 time Interval.
CancelInvoke("BlinkText") will stop the repeating invoke.
Here's the example :
//Call this when you want to start blinking
InvokeRepeating("BlinkText", 0 , 0.03f);
void BlinkText() {
if(Title.gameObject.activeSelf)
Title.gameObject.SetActive(false);
else
Title.gameObject.SetActive(true);
}
//Call this when you want to stop blinking
CancelInvoke("BlinkText");
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