Storing the status of a GameObject.

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1

Hello there,

Im new to Unity, and i got a small problem.

Imagine i have a square, on which another gameobject should become visible after i click on that gameobject. It should however only happen once, and on the second click it should do nothing.

I can create the object on a click, but how can i store the fact that the gameobject has been clicked already, so it wont create a new gameobject on every click. What i would like is for example a variable named "inUse" attached to every GameObject, which can have the value true or false. Ofcourse, when a new gameobject gets created it should be set to false.

I think, i need to add a new component or something to the gameobject that keeps track of this, but i cant seem to do that ;)

I hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

2

Why don't you just add the variable to the script that does the instantiating?

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as Spree said, add the value to the script that does the instantiating. This script will get added to each of the gameobjects. At the top add:

var clicked = false;

and after the if function that checks if it's clicked add

clicked = true;.

the if function I mentioned should look something like this:

if(mouseclick) {//do stuff)

make it (mouseclick && !clicked) {//dostuff}