Tracking Kills

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the way my game works is that when the player enters the scene the enemies are spawned in. So i wanted to create a system that tracks player kills, and although this would be easy on its own i want to design it in a way that it passes through scenes and appears on a separate script. my initial thought was to add 1 to a static variable every time ai.health = 0 however because enemies are spawned in am not sure how to make that static variable accessible on another script on another game object.

If you find this confusing i would be happy to further explain.

any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated.

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Answer by xxmariofer · Jan 15, 2019 at 08:14 AM

You want the counter inside your player? you access that var using the class_name.var_name

if the class that contains the public static int numberOfKills is Player it would be:

Player.numberOfKills

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Ak-striker · Jan 15, 2019 at 08:18 AM 0

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i tried that but it always gives me an error saying that the static variable cannot be accessed

xxmariofer Ak-striker · Jan 15, 2019 at 08:51 AM -1

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$$anonymous$$ake sure the var is public @Ak-striker

Answer 2

a few things. Do you already have a place that updates the kills, if so you'll want to reference it. If not then do everything in a second script (completely new).

IE

public class KillsManager : Monobehaviour

{

    public static KillsManager kills;

    public int killcount = 0;       

    //this makes sure that it exists and that only one exists at a time
    public void Awake()
    {
            if(kills == null)
           {
                    kills = this;
           }
           else if(kills != this)
           {
                    Destroy(gameObject)
           }
           //THIS IS THE PART THAT MAKES SURE THE INFORMATION PERSISTS BETWEEN SCENES
           DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject)
    }


     public void Update()

    {
               //this will cause it to change everytime you get a kill
               killcount = UIManager.uimanager.score (or whatever goes up by 1 when you get a kill)
                         //script.staticName.variable
      }

}

so now your kill count will follow you everywhere you go. anytime you go back into the game tho, your kill count will reset to 0 since the KillManager only reads what the player Kills are. So if you want that to override you'll need to make a method inside where ever you change the kill amount where playerkills = KillManager.kill.killcount

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