Incrimenting a variable when in a certain area

Questions & Answers
1

I am trying to make a sneaking game and I cant find a way to increment the variable that tells me if you are detected when you’re in the view of a person/camera/whatever.

For the view of the “detector” I have a cone that I have made a trigger and on my character controller I have a cube that is also a trigger

This is what I have but I’m assuming its horribly wrong, I got it from another question on here.(I’m new to this)

var detect:float;
var incrementTime:float = 0.3;
var incrementBy: float = 1;
var time:double =0;

public function OnTriggerEnter(other: Collider)
{
time+=Time.deltaTime;
while(time>incrementTime)
{
time-=incrementTime;
detect+=incrementBy;
}
}

2

Almost, but not quite. If you want the variable to increment constantly over time, do it more like this:

var curValue : float = 0;
var valueIncrease : float = 2;
function OnTriggerStay(other : Collider)
{
    // put some conditionals here to make sure the right things are triggering it
    curValue += Time.deltaTime * valueIncrease;
}

This will increase ‘curValue’ by at a rate of ‘valueIncrease’ every second.

Of course, you will need to add a rigidbody to your character (it can be kinematic) if you want it to activate triggers properly (look up any question at all that involves collisions, they almost all discuss this).