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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Score, Enemies, and Game State Manage the Game State

Stewart Fortier
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Posted by Stewart Fortier
Stewart Fortier
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Does the .enabled variable simply control whether Update() is called on a given Object?

When we set birdMovement.enabled = false, does that just prevent the BirdMovement object from calling its Update() function until we set enabled = true?

Is there anything else that is affected by setting "enabled" as true or false on a given object?

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Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
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Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
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It would be the same as selecting the Bird object in the hierarchy, then unchecking the box next to "Bird Movement (Script)" in the inspector panel. So it will disable the whole BirdMovement script, not just the Update method.

Since we're only setting the enabled property on one of the object's components and not on the entire object itself, the other components should not be affected (as long as they don't depend on something in the disabled script). For example the bird can't move until the game starts, but its idle animation will still play.