destroying prefabs after instantiation scripts

Unity Engine
1

Hi, I’m trying to have prefab music notes come out of my guitar melee weapon and it’s working. I’d like the notes to be destroyed after a few seconds, but they stay in the scene.

I tried adding a destroy game object line in the java melee script after instantiation of the musicnote, but it only destroyed the guitar.
Then I tried adding a destroy gameobject script, this time in C# to the prefab musicnote.

No errors popped up but the musicnote clones just keep coming and none get destroyed. Any feedback on what I’m doing wrong would be great.

#pragma strict

var TheDamage : int = 50;
var Distance : float;
var MaxDistance : float = 1.5;
var Mockron_Guitar : Transform;
var MusicNote : GameObject;
function Update()
{
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
        {
        animation.Play ("Melee");
        }

var hit : RaycastHit;
if (Physics.Raycast (transform.position, transform.TransformDirection (Vector3.forward), hit))
{
    Distance = hit.distance;
    if (Distance < MaxDistance)
    {
    hit.transform.SendMessage("ApplyDamage", TheDamage, SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
    var instance : GameObject = Instantiate(MusicNote, transform.position, transform.rotation);
    }
}
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Destroy : MonoBehaviour {

    GameObject MusicNote;


    // Update is called once per frame
    void Start () {

        Destroy (gameObject);
    }
   
}
2

You should be able to simply register the object to be destroyed in a few seconds - immediately after creating it.

So, right after you instantiate the new object, just add something like:

Destroy (instance, 2);

Jeff

3

Thanks Jeff, that worked. Thanks for teaching me that!