How do you transfer UI Text from one scene to another?

Questions & Answers
1

The scoring of my game is based on how far the player travels on the x-axis. I use this code to calculate it:

public Transform player;
public Text scoreText;

void Update()
{

    scoreText.text = player.position.x.ToString("0");

}

After the player collides with an object, they are sent to the Game Over scene. The problem is, I am not able to/ I don’t know how to display the final score when they lose. I have tried using DontDestroyOnLoad and PlayerPrefs, but I couldn’t get either of them to work with UI Text.

Can someone help me?

2

Why don’t you just store the text string and than set the next scene’s UI text.text to that string
Method 1:

// Old scene
string score = player.position.x.ToString("0");
PlayerPrefs.SetString("score", score);

// New scene
newScoreText.text = PlayerPrefs.GetString("score");

Method 2:

// Static variables are not stored in script instance, they are stored in stack, that means they are "remembered" even on scene change
// Scene is just used to get name of current scene

using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

private string sceneName;

public static string score = player.position.x.ToString("0");

private void Start() {
    sceneName = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;

    if (sceneName == "GameOverScene") {
       newScoreText.text = score;
    }
}