Highscore and new high score script help

Unity Engine
1

I’m trying to figure out how to change my script so that if the player gets a score higher than their previous high score it says New highscore. Could someone explain to me how I should do it, thanks. This is my bad attempt at it:

public bool newHiScore;
void Update()
    {

        if (Score > PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("Highscore", Score);
            newHiScore = true;
        }

        else

         if (Score <= PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("LatestScore", Score);
            newHiScore = false;
        }    
    }

This is from my ScoreSystem script ^^
and this is my Highscore Script:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class HighScoreScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text HiScore;

    void Update()
    {
        bool newHiScore = true;
        if (newHiScore)
        {
            HiScore.text = "New Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
        }

        bool newHiScore = false;
        if(newHiScore)
        {
            HiScore.text = "Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
        }
    }
}
2

maybe something like this

HighScoreScript highScoreScipt;
    public bool newHiScore;
    void Update()
    {
       
        if (Score > PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            highScoreScipt.newHighScore();
        }
       
        else
           
            if (Score <= PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            highScoreScipt.highScore();
        }

public class HighScoreScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text HiScore;
   
    void Update()
    {

    }

    public void newHighScore()
    {
        HiScore.text = "New Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
    }
    public void highScore()
    {
        HiScore.text = "Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
    }


    }
}

its rough code so dont copy and paste it. it might have parsing errors but you get the gist of it.

3

What about the PlayerPrefs.SetInt(“latestScore”, Score); that’s what I use to show the player his/her score?

4

set them in the if statement in score system before the public methods from the high score script is called

5

Doesn’t work.
This is what the script looks like now:

void Update()
    {

        if (Score > PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("Highscore", Score);
            HighScoreScript.manager.newHighScore();

        }

        else

         if (Score <= PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore"))
        {
            PlayerPrefs.SetInt("LatestScore", Score);
            HighScoreScript.manager.highScore();
        }    
    }

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class HighScoreScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static HighScoreScript manager;
    public Text HiScore;

    void Awake()
    {
        manager = this;
    } 

    public void newHighScore()
    {
        HiScore.text = "New Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
    }
    public void highScore()
    {
        HiScore.text = "Highscore: " + PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Highscore").ToString();
    }

The problem could be that the gameover screen fades in, thats why I was using void Update before not sure it will work like this. hmmm…

6

the highScoreScript doesnt need a reference to itself. the score system needs a reference to the highScoreScript class to access the public functions to change the text.

7

hiScoreScript = “whatever gameObject the scipt is on”.GetComponent();

8

if your having trouble with accessing script components you could simplify by moving everything to a single script.

9

I was told before by another member that, that’s the best way of accessing a component of another script because other methods are slower. :S