koobas.hobune.stream
'Cannot convert int to String'
Odd problem here.
Whenever the player kills an enemy, the player gets gold. I wanted to have the gold popup by the enemies death "+[gold]", which I've sort of done so far. I'm using a 3D text object for that, and now I'm trying to set the gold earned to the 3d text, but it's telling me I cant convert it to a string. Maybe I'm doing something wrong as I'm only just a beginner.
function addGold(){
plusPlayerGold = Random.Range(190, 300) * difficultyGoldMultiplier;
playerScript.playerGold += plusPlayerGold;
plusPlayerGold.ToString();
goldText.guiText.text = plusPlayerGold;
Instantiate(goldText, transform.position, transform.rotation);
}
Also I'm not fully sure if goldText.guiText.text = plusPlayerGold; is the correct code, it was a half guess to be honest. That is the line that's giving me the error, too.
When you did ToString() on the int, you didn't assign it to anything, you performed the extension method, but ToString() returns a type of string, if you are not assigning it to anything, it ends up wasted work. I mean after all, with how it was programmed, you would expect that the plusPlayerGold type after using ToString suddenly changes times from an int to a string... wait actually that makes sense, but isn't how it works.
function addGold(){
plusPlayerGold = Random.Range(190, 300) * difficultyGoldMultiplier;
playerScript.playerGold += plusPlayerGold;
// plusPlayerGold.ToString(); // bad, not assigned
goldText.guiText.text = plusPlayerGold.ToString();
Instantiate(goldText, transform.position, transform.rotation);
}
Oh wow okay, thankyou. That's fixed now, but I just realized, I was trying to access my 3D text through guiText. I don't know how to access the 3D text, is there a way to do that?
ToString() is a function that returns the value as a string. Calling it like you do - plusPlayerGold.ToString() - without assigning the result to something doesn't accomplish anything. You want this:
goldText.guiText.text = plusPlayerGold.ToString();
And remove the previous line where you call ToString().
