Calling a method once in update

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Sup everyone, does calling a method once in update safe? So basically I have a conditional statement inside Update that checks if the player is dead then I want to call an event and execute subscribed methods of it

 private bool isDead = false;
 if(health < 0.01f && !isDead){
     GameEvents.i.PlayerIsDead();
     isDead = true;
 }

Something like that, is this safe? Safe in a way that it doesn't cost performance issue. I'm making an android game btw, sorry for this stupid question hope you understand ^_^

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Answer by Chimer0s · Jan 23 at 08:19 AM

Yeah that's fine. It's a pretty standard way of doing things, though it would probably be better to handle it in a method that updates the health value rather than checking every frame. Ideally you'd have any incoming damage call a method in your script like "TakeDamage(float damage)" or something similar and when that's called you could just check to see if the updated value is less than or equal to 0.

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Captain_Pineapple · Jan 23 at 01:24 PM 0

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This.

Doing what you do in Update works and is "ok" but doing things event based is way better.

ghiantan0418 · Jan 24 at 05:01 AM 0

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Thank you! I'll keep this in $$anonymous$$d ^_^

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