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

Kasie Okpala
PLUS
Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 Points
Posted by Kasie Okpala
Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 Points

Error in the complier:

Assets/Scripts/ScoreCounter.cs(18,17): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type string' toUnityEngine.UI.Text'

I keep getting this error although things seem right.

Kasie Okpala
Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 Points
Kasie Okpala
Kasie Okpala
Courses Plus Student 314 Points

//this is my full code

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ScoreCounter : MonoBehaviour {

public static int score;
private Text scoreCounterText;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    score = 0;
    scoreCounterText = GetComponent<Text> ();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
    scoreCounterText = score + " Flies";
}

}

2 Answers

Joseph Rimar
Joseph Rimar
17,101 Points
Joseph Rimar
Joseph Rimar
17,101 Points

Your Error is occurring because you're setting the text to the scoreCounterText variable itself instead of its text property. 

//change scoreCounterText = score + "Flies" to...scoreCounterText.text
scoreCounterText.text = score + "Flies";