koobas.hobune.stream
Trying to deleate bullets once they leave the screen
I am trying to remove the bullets once they are no longer in use, so to far away to be any use to save frame rate drop but i cant get them to delete.
This is the code i am using.
if (bullet.position.z < muzzle.position.z){
Destroy (bullet.gameObject);
}
but all that comes up is "The variable bullet of "Bullet" doesn't exist any more" and the bullets just keep going in the game.
This error occurs because you keep comparing bullet.position.z even after bullet has been destroyed. You could add a simple clause to it:
if (bullet && bullet.position.z < muzzle.position.z){
Destroy (bullet.gameObject);
}
When the bullet doesn't exist anymore, bullet returns false and the comparison is skipped.
Another possibility is to check renderer.isVisible:
if (bullet && !bullet.renderer.isVisible){
Destroy(bullet.gameObject);
}
isVisible actually returns true while the object is inside any camera frustum, thus it will be destroyed when going outside the screen. But usually it's easier to simply add a Destroy(bullet.gameObject, 5); instruction to the code that creates the bullet, so that the bullet will be destroyed after a short life of 5 seconds (if not destroyed before by a collision, of course).
