I can’t get the score in the pong game

I’m making a 2d pong game on unity but my problem is that if the ball touches the vertical sides I can’t get the goal to be scored and restart the game, in fact the ball instead of returning to midfield continues to move, can anyone help me please? Thank you so much!!

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class BallMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float initialSpeed = 10;
    [SerializeField] private float speedIncrease = 0.25f;
    [SerializeField] private Text playerScore;
    [SerializeField] private Text AIScore;
    private int hitCounter;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;

    private int player1Score;
    private int aiScore;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        Invoke("StartBall", 2f);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.velocity = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rb.velocity, initialSpeed + (speedIncrease * hitCounter));
    }

    private void StartBall()
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(-1, 0) * (initialSpeed + speedIncrease * hitCounter);
    }

    private void ResetBall()
    {
        Debug.Log("Vamo raga forza Giuve Siuuuum");
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, 0);
        transform.position = new Vector2(0, 0);
        hitCounter = 0;
        Invoke("StartBall", 2f);
    }

    private void PlayerBounce(Transform myObject)
    {
        hitCounter++;
        Vector2 ballPos = transform.position;
        Vector2 playerPos = myObject.position;

        float xDirection, yDirection;
        if(transform.position.x > 0)
        {
            xDirection = -1;
        }
        else
        {
            xDirection = 1;
        }

        yDirection = (ballPos.y - playerPos.y) / myObject.GetComponent<Collider2D>().bounds.size.y;
        if (yDirection == 0)
        {
            yDirection = 0.25f;
        }

        rb.velocity = new Vector2(xDirection, yDirection) * (initialSpeed + (speedIncrease *hitCounter));
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if(collision.gameObject.name == "Player" || collision.gameObject.name == "AI")
        {
            PlayerBounce(collision.transform);
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if(transform.position.x > 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("Siuum");
            ResetBall();
            player1Score++;
            playerScore.text = player1Score.ToString();
        }
        else if(transform.position.x < 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("Gerry Scotti");
            ResetBall();
            aiScore++;
            AIScore.text = aiScore.ToString();
        }
    }
}

Time to start debugging! Here is how you can begin your exciting new debugging adventures:

You must find a way to get the information you need in order to reason about what the problem is.

Once you understand what the problem is, you may begin to reason about a solution to the problem.

What is often happening in these cases is one of the following:

  • the code you think is executing is not actually executing at all
  • the code is executing far EARLIER or LATER than you think
  • the code is executing far LESS OFTEN than you think
  • the code is executing far MORE OFTEN than you think
  • the code is executing on another GameObject than you think it is
  • you’re getting an error or warning and you haven’t noticed it in the console window

To help gain more insight into your problem, I recommend liberally sprinkling Debug.Log() statements through your code to display information in realtime.

Doing this should help you answer these types of questions:

  • is this code even running? which parts are running? how often does it run? what order does it run in?
  • what are the names of the GameObjects or Components involved?
  • what are the values of the variables involved? Are they initialized? Are the values reasonable?
  • are you meeting ALL the requirements to receive callbacks such as triggers / colliders (review the documentation)

Knowing this information will help you reason about the behavior you are seeing.

You can also supply a second argument to Debug.Log() and when you click the message, it will highlight the object in scene, such as Debug.Log("Problem!",this);

If your problem would benefit from in-scene or in-game visualization, Debug.DrawRay() or Debug.DrawLine() can help you visualize things like rays (used in raycasting) or distances.

You can also call Debug.Break() to pause the Editor when certain interesting pieces of code run, and then study the scene manually, looking for all the parts, where they are, what scripts are on them, etc.

You can also call GameObject.CreatePrimitive() to emplace debug-marker-ish objects in the scene at runtime.

You could also just display various important quantities in UI Text elements to watch them change as you play the game.

Visit Google for how to see console output from builds. If you are running a mobile device you can also view the console output. Google for how on your particular mobile target, such as this answer for iOS: How To - Capturing Device Logs on iOS or this answer for Android: How To - Capturing Device Logs on Android

If you are working in VR, it might be useful to make your on onscreen log output, or integrate one from the asset store, so you can see what is happening as you operate your software.

Another useful approach is to temporarily strip out everything besides what is necessary to prove your issue. This can simplify and isolate compounding effects of other items in your scene or prefab.

If your problem is with OnCollision-type functions, print the name of what is passed in!

Here’s an example of putting in a laser-focused Debug.Log() and how that can save you a TON of time wallowing around speculating what might be going wrong:

“When in doubt, print it out!™” - Kurt Dekker (and many others)

Note: the print() function is an alias for Debug.Log() provided by the MonoBehaviour class.

Here’s another approach:

Tracking simple high score / low time single-entry leaderboard:

For the highest score: Unity High score tracking - Pastebin.com

Usage:

TheBest.RecordScoreIfHigher( lastGamePlayScore);

For the lowest time: Unity best time tracking - Pastebin.com

Usage:

TheBest.RecordTimeIfLower( lastGamePlayTime);

To retrieve the best score or time, use one of these:

int bestScore = TheBest.BestScore;
float bestTime = TheBest.BestTime;

Full usage example:

Not sure how you have your map/play area setup, but if it’s a fixed camera, and world positions are always the same? You can just say if ball.transform.position.x < leftSideBounds or greater than rightSideBounds, that it is a conditional win accordingly.

However if you have goals setup to only be a small section, then I’d play around with colliders.

Thanks, today I will follow your tips