Doubt about the Event Functions and the "Time" class.

[Maenor]

Hi there!!
Straight to the point:
There are this two scripts:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Test : MonoBehaviour {

	public float distancePerSecond;

	void Update () {
		transform.Translate(0, 0, distancePerSecond * Time.deltaTime);
	}
}

And this one:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class EnemySpawner : MonoBehaviour {
	public GameObject enemy;
	public GameObject player;
	
	void Update() {
		if (player.transform.position.z == 5.0f) 
		{
			Instantiate (enemy);
		}
		else if(player.transform.position.z == 10.0f)
		{
			Destroy(player);
		}
	}

}

the thing is that no matter what i do (With my limited knowledges) the Instantiate and destroy functions doesn’t work unless i don’t use the Time.deltatime … I would really like to know why!! D:
I have been testing a variety of combinations of Event functions but none of them seems to work!
Any tips?

[rageingnonsense]

You are using == against a float value, which is not always what you will expect.

You are expecting these to be 5.0 or 10.0, which may just worked by accident before you introduced deltaTime. Now though, the odds of the z value being one of those two numbers are extremely low.

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but you probably want something more like:

    if (player.transform.position.z >= 5.0f && player.transform.position.z < 10.0) 
     {
         Instantiate (enemy);
     }
     else if(player.transform.position.z >= 10.0f)
     {
         Destroy(player);
     }

[cjdev]

You’re probably running into floating point imprecision, something that happens in computer programming because the compiler is translating binary numbers into base 10. Try using Mathf.Approximately instead.