Hello, recently I have hit a roadblock with flag mechanics with my “capture the flag” style game.
My issue
Everything works just fine until the player returns the flag to it’s base. When this happens, I need to stop a coroutine in my modular flag script. I use a function to communicate between my scripts. The said function has a boolean parameter. When the function is called, it passes the boolean into the other script, updates another boolean, sets it to false, which is correct, but then resets to true!?
I know that was a lot of information, so lets take a look at the scripts now, shall we?
The scripts
//This is my player script. I might not need to involve two scripts in my code but it made sense at the time.
// Called when player collides with enemy flag.
public void CollectedEnemyFlag()
{
if(EnemyFlagCaptured == false)
{
EnemyFlagCaptured = true;
}
}
//Called when the player collides with it's flag. Essentially, it checks to see if that code up there was executed or not.
public void CheckCapture()
{
if(EnemyFlagCaptured == true)
{
Debug.Log("Enemy Flag Brought To base! Well done!");
EnemyFlagCaptured = false;
//This code returns the results of the check. Returns a boolean value.
_FlagScript.RetunCheck(EnemyFlagCaptured);
}
}
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class FlagsScript : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
private int flagID;
private PlayerScript Playerscript;
[SerializeField]
private bool EnemyFlagCaptured;
private void Start()
{
Playerscript = GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<PlayerScript>();
}
void Update()
{
}
//All that stuff up there (should) be irrelevant.
private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
//This code checks to see what flag was collided with.
if(other.tag == "Player")
{
if(flagID == 1)
{
Debug.Log("Collided with your own flag!");
Playerscript.CheckCapture();
}
else if(flagID == 2)
{
Debug.Log("Collided with enemy flag");
EnemyFlagCaptured = true;
StartCoroutine(FollowPlayer(other.transform));
Playerscript.CollectedEnemyFlag();
//I thought repeated collisions were my issue. Guess they weren't because this code disabled collisions.
gameObject.GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().isTrigger = false;
gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().detectCollisions = false;
}
}
}
//The coroutine I am attempting to stop.
IEnumerator FollowPlayer(Transform PlayerTransform)
{
while(EnemyFlagCaptured == true)
{
transform.position = PlayerTransform.position;
yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
Debug.Log(EnemyFlagCaptured + "");
}
Debug.Log("Flag returned!");
transform.position = new Vector3(-23, 0.8f, 0.6f);
}
//I believe my issue is here.
public void RetunCheck(bool FlagCaptured)
{
Debug.Log("Flag Confirmed");
EnemyFlagCaptured = FlagCaptured;
Debug.Log(EnemyFlagCaptured + "");
}
}
To provide some more info on the issue, I added a Debug.log to check the boolean value.
As you can see, it does set to false, but then resets to true. This is where my real issue arises. I can’t for the life of me figure out why. I’ve spent hours looking at my scripts, my scene, debugging and everything else I could think of to do.
Any insight you can provide would be appreciated.
