How to make a flashlight which is ON after collect?

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1

Hello!
Im making horror game. I want to make a flashlight which will be ON (till the end of the game) after collecting it from shelf. I know how to make a normal flashlight (attach spotlight to player or something else) but i dont have any script for it etc etc. If u want u can link here free flashlight model too :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

2

I have never made this myself but perhaps if you made the condition of it being on or off attached to a bool? So basically:

void Start(){

lampon=false;

}

void Update(){
if (pickuplamp=true){
lampon=true;
}
}
?

3

I’m new here but I got this simple idea , u creat two flashlights , one set it inactive at the start of the game and make it already attached to the player and the other one in the shelf or whatever u wanna put it , anyway add a bool variable to your player and add a methode which only functions if the bool is ture that sets the first flashlight to active … one ore thing u can destroy the one you collected
attach this script to your Character .

public class FlashLight: MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject FlashLight // the one attached to the player 
private bool FlashLight_collected ;
    void Start() {
FlashLight.SetActive(true) ;
}
void Update(){
   /* The following code means ones u collected the FlashLight the one attached to the player will be 
   set to active */
    if (FlashLight_collected &&  !FlashLight.active){
               FlashLight.SetActive(true) ;
       }
  }
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider){
      if (collider.CompareTag("FlashLight")) {
       DestroyObject(collider.gameobject) ;
       FlashLight_collected  = true ;
      // you can improve it by setting a bool to true and once u r out of the colliders it set it to false and 
          add another methode which allows u to click on a specific key to collect that Flashlight
        }
 }

}
I’m new as well and I’m not used to write stuff in the forum so I’m sorry if I wasnt clear enough or if I had some mistakes in the code . Try it ur self just copy the idea and make ur own code doesnt matter if it’s unoptimized just try to understand and learn how to code . I’m like 18 days in unity and I never coded before , Only some python in the uni but I can apply most of my ideas now