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Glen Hayes
5,798 PointsrestartTimer variable value is what?
At the risk of asking a possibly obvious and stoopid question, when and what does the restartTimer variable get instantiated to? The float is instantiated but is never given a value in the value other than itself + Time.deltaTime or am I missing something?
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Tom Ku
3,049 PointsI also wondered about the possibility of using a variable before its initialization when I saw this code, being a newbie to C# and object oriented programming. Having run the code a number of times, it is obvious that this static int variable of a class is initialized to zero.
I believe that this implicit initialization of static variables of a class to zero is necessarily so, since there is no way for a user of the class (i.e. when instantiating an instance) to figure out if it is the first instance of the class. A quick Google search confirms that this is indeed defined in C# language specification (for example, in this discussion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5949889/static-variables-initialization). Moreover, It is not just a C# feature, but also applies to java and C++.
Glen Hayes
5,798 Pointsyeah makes sense but if its set to zero and its not a serialized field, why not just make restartTimer = Time.deltaTime?
Tom Ku
3,049 PointsPerhaps this thread in Unity community addresses your question:http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/296336/timedeltatime.html, Glen.