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How to manage a round based game?
As far as I understood scripts in unity are always (?) attached to game objects. But how can I create a script that observes the current running round or level of a game and detect changes in it's state?
Like I want to have for example 3 players, when one finishes his move the next player should be able to move his pawn. Would I attach this script also to some game object?
Also how do I bring all the UI stuff together? Like my 3 players are in the same team and their pawns character portraits should be shown in a list. If there are only two show two, if there are three, show three.
I'm mostly interested in how I an "connect" all these things.
The easiest approach is to have a manager of some sort. The manager is just a script attached to a GameObject which preferably doesn't destroy on loading new levels. All variables and functions could be static inside the manager so you just have to call something like: GameManager.NextPlayerMove();
//Inside the script called GameManager you can have something like:
static var currentPlayer : int = 0; static var activePlayers : int = 3;
static function NextPlayerMove () { if (currentPlayer<activePlayers) { currentPlayer++; } else { currentPlayer = 0; } }
You'd increase the activePlayers when somebody joins or drops out in the same way via a function.
Regarding the UI stuff you'd use a for-loop for each player.
function OnGUI () {
for (var i : int = 0; i < GameManager.activePlayers; i++) {
//Each player's avatar here
}
}
Check out the GUI Scripting Guide to see what you can do.
Firstly you can attach all the scripts to an Empty game object and then call it "Manager" for example , and for connecting you can use the SendMessage from Unity , it helps you a lot to send orders from a script to another , and sure because your numbers changes in addition to lots of factors you will use a ( Static Variables ) ; it is a pretty rough answer but it is the main guide lines which you need, if you need a big explanation to any of that , just tell here & i`ll give
cheers M:)
It's a good approach except I'd try to leave Send$$anonymous$$essage out if I didn't have to talk between different scripting languages for instance. Send$$anonymous$$essage is a bit slower than calling static functions or variables directly from another script.
Thanks for your answer! But I can't flag both as correct so I've picked the other one that is a little more detailed.
