I Have A Script That When The Player Touches A Certain Block It Loads The New Scene In The Build Index.
The Problem Is I Have A Door That Is Suppose To Go To A Secret Level Instead Of The Next Level.
But I Have No Idea How To Do This, Do I Need To Rewrite My Script That Loads The Next Scene Or Is There A Simpler Way Of Doing This?
It sounds like you’re tackling many things at once.
Don’t do this. You have one brain. Do one thing at a time.
Get the steps working in order:
detect touching something or entering a trigger
open something when you detect the above
OR
Try this approach: Ask yourself “Can I?” again and again:
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How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:
Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.
Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
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Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.
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The important parts of the error message are:
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I’ve Found Almost No Information On How To Do What I Need Done Though. Because To Switch Scenes That Scenes Has To Be In The Build index. And I Can’t Put The Scene Anywhere That Wouldn’t Be Getting In The Way Of My Load Next Scene Script.
i’m more interested in why every word you type, starts with a capital letter. i’ve done all lowercase just to make up for it. but loading the next scene doesn’t have to go in numerical order, and even if you do have a numerical order you want, then just make your secret levels a high number you’ll never get to. ex(level: 9999)
Correct.
The user can’t see this list.
Any hacker can trivially see this list.
And your seekrit scene.
Thank You For Balancing It Out By Typing In All Lower Case. I Had No Idea You Could Just Assign A Number To A Level, Can I Do This In Build Settings? Or Is It Done Somewhere Else?
It’s the order they appear in the build list. So if you want to load scene #5, it’s the fifth one in the list. You can also load them by name. See:
Thank You For The Help! This Is Exactly What I Was Looking For.
Just so you know, using a scene index number instead of a string will NOT prevent hackers from seeing your hidden content. It’s all right there in the binary and Unity is popular enough there are hundreds of hacker tools to look into games.
It also now makes your game extremely brittle. If you EVER add / remove / reorder the scene list, everything in your game that uses a number (index) to load will now silently just break or load the wrong level.
Be kind to yourself, use strings, it’s 2023 already.
If you’re concerned about the user ‘hacking your save files,’ or ‘cheating in your game,’ which is playing on their computer, just don’t be.
There’s nothing you can do about it. Nothing is secure, it is not your computer, it is the user’s computer.
If it must be secure, store it on your own server and have the user connect to download it.
Anything else is a waste of your time and the only person you’re going to inconvenience is yourself when you’re debugging the game and you have savegame errors. Work on your game instead.
Remember, it only takes one 12-year-old in Finland to write a script to read/write your game files and everybody else can now use that script. Read about Cheat Engine to see more ways you cannot possibly control this.