It wont show me my serialized fields for game state on the inspector window.

Question

here is my error message

Assets/gamestate.cs(19,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `PlayerHealth' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

here is my code

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

public class gamestate : MonoBehaviour { private bool gameStarted = false; [SerializeField] private Text gameStateText; [SerializeField] private GameObject player; [SerializeField] private BirdMovement birdMovement; [SerializeField] private FollowCamera FollowCamera; private float restartDelay = 3f; private float restartTimer; private PlayerMovement playerMovement; private PlayerHealth playerHealth;

// Use this for initialization
void Start() {
    Cursor.visible = false;
    playerMovement = player.GetComponent<PlayerMovement>();
    playerHealth = player.GetComponent<PlayerHealth>();

    //Prevent the player from moving at the start of the game
    playerMovement.enabled = false;
    //prevent the bird from movement at the start of the game
    birdMovement.enabled = false;
    //prevent the follow camera fromm moving to its game position
    followCamera.enabled = false;

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    // if the game is not started and the player presses the space bar...

    if (gameStarted == false && Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Space))
    {
        //...then start the game
        StartGame();
    }

    // if the player is no longer alive...
    if (playerHealth.alive == false)
    {
        //... then end the game
        EndGame();
    }
    //increment the timer to count up to restarting

    restartTimer = restartTimer + Time.deltaTime;
    // ...and if it reaches the restart delay
    if (restartTimer >= restartDelay)
    {
        //then reload the currently loaded scene
        Scene.Manager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);

    }
}


  private void StartGame() {
        //set game state
        gameStarted = true;
        //remove start text
        gameStateText.color = Color.clear;
        //allow player movement
        playerMovement.enabled = true;
        //allow bird movement
        birdMovement.enabled = true;
        //allow camera movement
        FollowCamera.enabled = true;


    }
      private void EndGame() {
        gameStarted = false;
        //show game over text
        gameStateText.color = color.white;
        gameStateText.text = "Game Over!";
        //Remove the player from game
        player.SetActive(false);

    }

}

what is the problem?

Answer 1 · 2017-04-10T03:53:26Z

April 10, 2017 3:53am

Hey, The first thing to realise is that the inspector window doesn't update properly when there are errors in your code. Fix the errors and the field should appear.

I think the line with the error is :

private PlayerHealth playerHealth;

This creates the variable 'playerHealth' of type 'PlayerHealth'. Have you created the Class 'PlayerHealth' yet? If not, this is your error.

The PlayerHealth class should look something like this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerHealth : MonoBehaviour {

    public bool alive;

    [SerializeField]
    private GameObject pickupPrefab;

    void Start () {
        alive = true;
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        if (other.CompareTag("Enemy") && alive) {
            alive = false;

            Instantiate(pickupPrefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    }
}

Let me know how you go.

Cheers, :Damien

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nicholasgryczewski

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It wont show me my serialized fields for game state on the inspector window.

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Damien Watson

Damien Watson